William Reed

William Reed serves as Professor and Associate Provost for Academic Planning at the University of Maryland, holding additional roles as Big-10 DEO and UMD ADVANCE Leadership Fellow focused on organizational efficiency and community development.

His research centers on international and civil conflict dynamics—including onset, duration, expansion, and termination—through theoretical bargaining models between states/rebel groups and behavioral economics laboratory experiments. Methodological rigor defines his approach to political conflict analysis.

Scholarly output appears in premier journals like American Political Science Review and Journal of Conflict Resolution, supported by National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, and Army Research Lab grants. Teaching encompasses core political science methodology including Applied Game Theory, Regression Analysis, and Statistics for Social Sciences.