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Associate Professor Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink is affiliated with the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin. Her research bridges conflict studies and political psychology, focusing on the cognitive and emotional foundations of political dissent, particularly in the Arab world and post-conflict societies. She employs computational methods to analyze ethnographic interviews, revealing how individuals reason about resistance under repression.
- Education: PhD in International Relations and Political Science from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva), MA in International Relations and Middle East Studies from the American University in Cairo, Magister Artium in American Literature from Universität Hamburg
Her work identifies positive emotions (hope, solidarity) and tit-for-tat reasoning as critical drivers of dissent, challenging traditional models that emphasize negative emotions or rational choice. She has conducted fieldwork in Lebanon (2022–2023) and authored computational frameworks for analyzing belief systems and inference chains in protest behavior.
Scientific awards include the COFUND Junior Research Fellow at Durham University and pre-/postdoctoral fellowships from the Swiss National Science Foundation and German Academic Exchange Service. Her methodological contributions span agent-based modeling, cognitive mapping, and sentiment analysis of political speech.
