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Elisabeth Jean Wood is the Crosby Professor of the Human Environment and Professor of Political Science at Yale University, with additional affiliations in International and Area Studies. She specializes in political violence, civil wars, and sexual violence during conflict. Her research spans Latin America, South Asia, and the Middle East, including fieldwork in Colombia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, El Salvador, Peru, and Israel/Palestine. She coordinates the Observatorio de Restitución y la Regulación de Derechos de Propiedad Agraria and serves on editorial boards for World Politics and the Cambridge Contentious Politics series.
Her education includes a Ph.D. from Stanford University (1995), an MA in Latin American Studies from UC Berkeley (1988), an MA in Physics from UC Berkeley (1984), and degrees in Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics from Oxford and Cornell. She teaches courses on comparative politics, political violence, and qualitative methods at Yale.
Her research interests focus on the social processes of civil war, wartime transformation of social networks, and variation in wartime sexual violence. Recent work includes books on sexual violence in conflict and Colombia’s political violence. Awards include the Graduate Mentor Award for Social Sciences (2013) and American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellowship (2010).
Her articles analyze ideological drivers of violence, sexual violence as a political tool, and ethical challenges in conflict research. She advocates for transparency in qualitative research and ethical engagement with vulnerable populations.
Her advising and grants focus on conflict zones, with emphasis on gendered violence and policy interventions. She collaborates with international organizations to address restitution of agrarian rights and post-conflict governance.
