Fellows

Fellowship News:

The Program on Intrastate Conflict is pleased to announce its fellows for the 2009-2010 academic year.

Teresa Cravo is a pre-doctoral student at the University of Cambridge, in the UK. She is doing work on post-colonial Africa, looking at the way political transitions are influenced by the character of relations with former colonial states.  She specializes in former Portuguese colonies, notably Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau. Her research interests include conflict resolution, peacebuilding, post-colonial states, democracy, and development — particularly within the African context. Cravo graduated in International Relations from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, in Portugal. She completed a diploma on Human Rights and Democratization in the Law Faculty at the same University and was later awarded a Master of Arts in Peace Studies from Bradford University, in the United Kingdom. She then became a Junior Lecturer in International Relations at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, where she has taught Geopolitics, Conflict Resolution, and Human Rights. She is also a Researcher at the Peace Studies Group of the Centre for Social Studies in Coimbra.

Sarah Zukerman Daly is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at MIT and a member of MIT’s Security Studies Program. Her interests include civil war, peace processes, ethnic politics, transitional justice, and democratization in Latin America and the former Soviet Union. Sarah holds a B.A. (2003) with Distinction in International Relations from Stanford University and a M.S. (2004) with Distinction in Development Studies from the London School of Economics. Zukerman's dissertation analyzes variation in demilitarized groups' post-war trajectories and ex-combatants’ reintegration success in Colombia. Her other current projects seek to explain sub-national variation in insurgency onset in Colombia; state strategies towards ethnic minorities in the former Soviet Union; repression and rebellion in El Salvador and Honduras; the effects of foreign fighters on civil wars; and the role of emotions in transitional justice. Her research is supported by the Social Science Research Council, National Science Foundation, Fulbright U.S. Student Program, U.S. Institute of Peace and MIT’s Center for International Studies. She has conducted field research in Colombia, Ecuador, and Chile and has spent time at the Council on Foreign Relations, World Bank, the International Peace Research Institute of Oslo, Colombian High Council of Reintegration, and the Organizational of America States’ Peace Mission in Colombia.

Denise Garcia is a Research Associate with the Intrastate Conflict Program and the International Security Program. She is an Assistant Professor of International Security and Negotiation in the Department of Political Science and International Affairs Program at Northeastern University. Prior to joining Northeastern, she was a research fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center for three years where she also served as a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Government of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Her first book, Small Arms and Security: New Emerging International Norms, was published by Routledge.

Kelly M. Greenhill is assistant professor at Tufts University and is continuing as a post-doctoral Fellow at the International Security Program and the Program on Intrastate Conflict at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She was a post-doctoral research fellow at CISAC and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Political Science. Greenhill completed a Ph.D. in political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she wrote a dissertation that focused on asymmetric coercion and the use of refugee flows as political and military weapons. Greenhill also holds an S.M. in Political Science from MIT, a C.S.S. in International Management from Harvard University, and a B.A. in Political Economy and in Scandinavian Studies (double major) from the University of California at Berkeley. Greenhill’s research has appeared in a variety of books and journals, including Security Studies, International Migration, and Polity and has been supported in part by the Social Science Research Council, the MacArthur Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Eisenhower Foundation. Outside of academia, she has served as a consultant to the Ford Foundation and to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), as a defense program analyst for the US Department of Defense, and as an economic policy intern in the Office of Senator John F. Kerry.

Patrick Johnston is a post-doctoral fellow with the Program on Intrastate Conflict and the International Security Program. He received his PhD in 2009 from Northwestern Univeristy and was, from 2007-2009, a pre-doctoral fellow at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation. His current projects examine the effectiveness of strategies of coercion in counterinsurgency, the causes of insurgent victory, and the micro-dynamics of insurgency and counterinsurgency. His other research interests include insurgent organization, conflict resolution, and political economy. He has had articles appear in Security Studies, Civil Wars, Canadian Journal of African Studies, and Review of African Political Economy.

Jennifer Keister is a pre-doctoral fellow. She is PhD candidate in Political Science at the UC San Diego. Keister's research examines how rebel movements establish social contracts with civilian populations—why and how some groups provide public goods and build governance structures, while others engage in extortive behavior. 

Linda Kirschke will receive her PhD from the Department of Politics at Princeton University. Her dissertation, "Why Ruling Elites Play the Ethnic Card", examines the rise of ethnic cleansing during periods of regime change. It draws on a large-N study of sixty-eight multiparty transitions in post-Communist Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa and fieldwork in Serbia, Kosovo, Romania, Kenya, and Chad. Her articles have appeared in Comparative Political Studies and The Journal of Modern African Studies. She has held visiting fellowships at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Yvonne Malan was born in South Africa where she completed her undergraduate career and also taught courses in philosophy and politics. She received her doctorate in politics and international relations from the University of Oxford. Her academic background includes jurisprudence, political science, political philosophy, complexity theory, African studies, and transitional justice. Her other research interests include evolutionary psychology and altruism.

Anoop Sarbahi is a pre-doctoral fellow. He is a PhD candidate in the department of Political Science at UCLA. His research interests include intrastate conflicts and transnational dimensions of intrastate wars. His current emphasis is on low-intensity intrastate wars and how the dynamics of a civil war are shaped by three different levels of interaction: the state and rebel movements; the different rebel factions, if any; and the rebel movement or faction and the population.

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