Scholars.

Links to scholars participating in RGN events and working on issues related to rebel governance.  *Listed alphabetically 

Grouped by REgion

Karen Albert (University of Rochester)
Expertise: violent & nonviolent strategies in civil war, quasi-state institutions; Methods: quantitative analysis. 

Mary Beth Altier (New York University)
Expertise: political violence, armed parties, political behavior, rebel governance, Northern Ireland, disengagement and re-engagement;
Methods: quantitative analysis, field research, interviews, archival research, case studies

Alyssa Bernstein (Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University)
Expertise: national movements in prison, political resistance among incarcerated people, politically motivated prisoners, symbolic power, Palestine, Israel
Methods: qualitative research, active interviewing, comparative case studies

Yelena Biberman (Skidmore College)
Expertise: unconventional warfare, militias, South Asia, rebel institutions, militarization; Methods: Fieldwork, interviews, comparative case studies, archives, surveys, statistical analyses.

Ana Arjona (Northwestern University & Universidad de Los Andes)
Expertise: rebel governance; local order; criminal governance; Latin America; Colombia; Methods: quantitative; qualitative; mixed-methods

Victor Asal (SUNY Albany)
Expertise: terrorism, non-state actors, ideology; Methods: econometric analysis

Kristin M. Bakke (University College London & PRIO)
Expertise: Legacies of wartime institutions, post-war state-building and legitimacy, de facto states in Eurasia, Northern Ireland; Methods: Surveys, fieldwork, process tracing, statistical analyses

Matthew Bamber (Graduate Institute, Geneva)
Expertise: Rebel governance effectiveness, armed group legitimacy, Salafi-Jihadi armed groups, Middle East; Methods: fieldwork, interviews, archival research, qualitative research

Jessica Maves Braithwaite (University of Arizona)
Expertise: rebel governance; Methods: ​Quantitative and qualitative. 

Jori Breskawski (University of Maryland)
Expertise: Rebel political institutions; Indonesia; Methods: Statistical analysis; GIS; semi-structured interviews; 

Francesco Buscemi (Sant'Anna)
Expertise: insurgency, civil war, small arms and light weapons (SALW)

David Cerero Guerra (Yale University)
Expertise: Rebel and urban criminal governance, criminal pacts, and state-criminal actors agreements
Methods: Quantitative methods (surveys, experiments, statistical analysis), field research (interviews)

Bridget Coggins (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Expertise: piracy, secession, political violence; Methods: quantitate analysis, interviews, comparative case studies

Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham (University of Maryland)
Expertise: self-determination, civil war, nonviolence; Methods: quantitative analysis, experiments, mixed methods

Sarah Zuckerman Daly (Columbia University)
Expertise: post-conflict politics and violence; Latin America

Chris Davey
Expertise: genocide, identity, peace and conflict, memory; African Great Lakes Region, Cameroon; Methods: narrative analysis, and interpretive phenomenological analysis 

Cassy Dorff (Vanderbilt University)
Expertise: civil conflict processes; civilian organizing during conflicts; civilian victimization; nonviolent and violent social movements; collective action;  Methods: network science, Bayesian statistics, computational methodology, surveys

Chelsea Estancona (University of South Carolina)
Expertise: Rebels and commodity markets, local labor in civil war, pro-government militias; Methods: quantitative, game theoretic

Katharine Fortin (Utrecht University School of Law)
Expertise: rebel governance, international humanitarian law, international human rights law
Blog: Armed Groups and International Law blog

Adrian Florea (University of Glasgow)
Expertise: civil war; rebel governance; separatism; de-facto states; Methods: Field research; Quantitative analysis; Surveys; Process tracing; 

Marta Furlan (University of St Andrews)
Expertise: rebel governance, Salafi-Jihadist rebel governance, political Islam, Middle East
Methods: qualitative analysis, case studies, comparative case studies, archival research

Adrian Gallagher (University of Leeds)
Expertise: Mass Atrocity Prevention, Genocide Studies, and the Responsibility to Protect; Methods: Mixed, quantitative

Daniel Hirschel-Burns (Yale University)
Expertise: rebel group ideology, effects of violence, Colombia; Methods: ethnography and historical analysis 

Amelia Hoover Green (Drexel Univ.)
Expertise: causes and control of violence against civilians during wartime; Methods: qualitative analysis 

Ryan Griffiths (Syracuse University)
Expertise: Secessionist strategy and tactics; Methods: mixed, quantitative

Reyko Huang (Texas A & M)
Expertise: civil war, rebellion; Methods: quantitative analysis, mixed methods

Joey Huddleston (Seton Hall)
Expertise: external relations with self-determination groups, rebel diplomacy, recognition and derecognition, public opinion on intervention,  Western Sahara; Methods: Bayesian; Survey Experiments, Elite interviews

Danielle Jung (Emory University)
Relevant Projects: ​Gang governance and the decay of state sovereignty; The welfare non-state: nonstate service provision & legitimacy; Terrorist & Insurgent Organization Social Services ​

Patricia Justino (United Nations University)
Expertise: economic development implications of political violence; wartime governance; state-building; Colombia, Angola, India; Methods: micro surveys; experiments; longitudinal data; econometrics

Hakan Kiyici (Turkish National Police Academy) Expertise: proto-state structures,  CVE in conflict-torn areas; Methods: Field Reserach, Historcial Comperative Perspectives, Case Studies.

Peter Krause (Boston College)
Expertise: political violence, national movements, rebel effectiveness, conflict diffusion, Middle East and North Africa; Methods: fieldwork, interviews, archives, comparative case studies, quantitative methods

​Theresa Leimpeke (ETH Zurich)​
Expertise: internal displacement, Sri Lanka​

Cyanne Loyle (Penn State University)
Expertise: Transitional Justice, Africa; Methodologies: Field Research, Quantitative analysis

Jason Lyall (Dartmouth)
Expertise: rebel governance, civilian attitudes and behavior, dynamics of violence, humanitarian aid; Methods: quantitative analysis, experiments (field, survey, natural), fieldwork, interviews, archival, case studies, geospatial

Romain Malejacq (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Expertise: Afghanistan, warlords, militias;  
Methods: fieldwork, interviews, process tracing, comparative case studies

Zachariah Mampilly (Vassar University)
Expertise: rebel governance, civil wars, race, ethnicity and nationalism; Methods: fieldwork, interviews, comparative case studies.

Zoe Marks​ (Harvard University)
Expertise: Civil War, Armed Groups, Gender Violence, Social Networks, Sierra Leone, DR Congo; Methods: ethnography, interviews, archival research, mixed methods, surveys, social network analysis

Philip Martin (George Mason University) 
Expertise: wartime governance, post-conflict reconstruction, civil-military relations, insurgent organizations, Africa; Methods: surveys, comparative historical analysis, mixed-methods

Hilary Matfess (Yale University)
Expertise: conflict, atrocities, gender, Ethiopia, Nigeria

Caitlin McCulloch (University of Maryland)
Expertise: public opinion around civil war, de facto state legitimacy, intervention, Eastern Europe/Eurasia; Methods: surveys, interviews, fieldwork, statistical analysis

Francis O’Connor (Wageningen University and Research)
Expertise: Popular support for rebel movements, rebel constituencies, rebel service provision and revolutionary court (Kurdistan, Colombia and Ireland); Methods: Qualitative mixed method, fieldwork and comparative case studies

Sarah Parkinson (Johns Hopkins University)
Expertise: Militant organizations, political violence, rebel intelligence & logistics, socialization, gender, disaster response, Middle East and North Africa, research ethics
Methods: Ethnography, social network analysis, organizational theory, interviews, archives, interpretive methods

Anna O. Pechenkina (Utah State University)
Expertise: conflict management and peace stability; civilians' role in conflict; Eastern Europe and Caucasus; Methods: econometrics, survey experiments, agent-based modeling

Marina Petrova (Bocconi University)
Expertise: civil war, nonviolent resistance, political violence, mobilization networks, Yemen; Methods: quantitative methods

Hanna Pfeifer (Goethe University Frankfurt / Peace Research Institute Frankfurt) 
Expertise: armed non-state actors, political order state, non-state violence;,Middle East; Methods: Qualitative, interpretive, discourse analysis

Giulia Piccolino (Loughborough University)
Expertise: rebel governance, post-conflict peacebuilding, peace operations, West Africa, Latino America. Methods: Field Research (interviews; focus groups), mixed methods.

Sukanya Podder (King's College London)
Expertise: Rebel governance and legitimacy, South Sudan Mindanao; Methods: Fieldwork; Ethnography; Household surveys

René Provost (McGill University)
Expertise: administration of justice by non-state armed groups in conflict zones; obligations of rebels under international humanitarian law and international human rights law. Methods: Mixed methods, field research, interviews, qualitative analysis, comparative case studies

Mara Revkin (Duke Law School)
Expertise: civil war, rebel governance; Methods: quantitative analysis, experiments, mixed methods

Liana Eustacia Reyes
(Rice University)
Expertise: rebel law, governance institutions, and strategies during conflict & post-conflict settings; Methods: quantitative and qualitative

Kit Rickard (University College London)
Expertise: Legacies of wartime institutions, external state support, Northern Ireland; Methods: Surveys, fieldwork, process tracing, GIS, statistical analyses

Daniel Rio Tinto (Fundação Getulio Vargas)
​Expertise: International security; IR theory; civil war; political violence, group insecurity; Sub-Saharan Africa; Latin America. Methods: Qualitative research; process tracing

​Michael Rubin (UCSD)
Expertise: Civil Wars, Political Violence, Terrorism, Rebel governance, civilian agency; Methods: Econometric Analysis, geo-spatial data analysis, Semi-structured Interviews. 

Mashal Shabbir (American University)
​Expertise: insurgency, group resilience, South Asia/North Africa; Methods: Quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis. 

Belgin San-Akca (Koc University)
Expertise: Non-state actors, IR, terrorism; Methods: Quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis.

Katherine Sawyer (Stony Brook University)
Expertise: civil wars, political violence, bio-politics; Methods: Econometric Analysis, geo-spatial data analysis, bio-statistics. 

Regine Schwab (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt) 
Expertise: Civil war, political violence, non-state armed groups, informal institutions, rebel governance and courts, Syria; Methods: Mixed methods, process tracing, comparative case studies

Lee Seymour (University of Montreal)
Expertise: civil wars, secession, self-determination, Sudan; Methods: econometric analysis, fieldwork, interviews, comparative case studies.

Benjamin Smith (University of Florida)
Expertise: separatist conflict; Methods: econometric, comparative historical

Marika Sosnowski (University of Melbourne) 
​Expertise: ceasefires, rebel governance; Cases: Syria; Methods: Mixed methods, qualitative

Paul Staniland (University of Chicago)
Expertise: South Asia, civil war, electoral violence, militias; Methods: comparative case studies, archives, interviews, dyadic quantitative data​

Megan Stewart (American University)
Expertise: civil war, rebel governance; Methods: quantitative analysis, experiments, mixed methods 

Niels Terpstra (Utrecht University)
Expertise: civil wars, rebel governance, rebel legitimation and symbolism, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan; Methods: Qualitative research; field research

Efe Tokdemir (Bilkent University)
Expertise: Non-violent strategies, rebel - constituency relations, terrorism and counterterrorism, Middle East/ North Africa; Methods: Quantitative, survey research, field work

Akin Unver (​Kadir Has University)
Expertise: Digital communication, economic models of rebel governance, counter-insurgency, rebel targeting behavior, Middle East (Turkey, Syria and Iraq); Methods: Geospatial/mapping, text-mining/content analysis, web scraping, network analysis

Andras Uribe (University of Chicago)
Expertise: armed group governance, democratic politics, political behavior; Latin America; Methods: quantitative, computational, archival

Sebastian Van Baalen (Uppsala University)
Expertise: Civil wars; rebel governance; legacies of civil war; postwar violence; Methods: Field research, process tracing, quantitative analysis

Christoph Vogel
Expertise: Violent conflict, Political Authority, Rebel governance / Central Africa, DR Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda; Methods: Ethnography, Ethics of Conflict Research, Non-participant observation, Collaborative Fieldwork

Michael Weintraub (Universidad de los Andes)
Expertise: political violence, rebel and criminal governance, impact evaluations, Latin America; Methods: experimental and quasi-experimental methods.

James Worrall (University of Leeds)
Expertise: Civil War, Civilian Agency, Limits of Violence, Legitimacy, Insurgency/Counterinsurgency, Social Order, Governance, IOs, Middle East/South Asia/Africa
Methods: Field Research (Ethnography/Elite Interviewing), Network Analysis, Archival Research, Comparative Analysis

Alex Waterman (University of Leeds)
Expertise: Counterinsurgency, Classifying Rebel Governance, Civil Wars, South Asia, Emergence/Negotiation of Order: Methods: Field Research, Interviews, Archival Research, Comparative Analysis

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