Co-sponsored by the Jean Monnet EU Center of Excellence for Comparative Populism (JMEUCE), Comparative Politics Colloquium (CPC), and Models, Experiments and Data Workshop (MEAD).
Laia Balcells, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University. She is a political scientist that specializes in the study of political violence, nationalism, and ethnic conflict. She earned her PhD from Yale University in 2010. Her first book, Rivalry and Revenge: The Politics of Violence during Civil War, deals with the determinants of violence against civilians in civil war and explores micro-level variation in the Spanish Civil War and Côte d’Ivoire.