You can find links to my publications, projects under review or in revision, and working papers below. I also have several editor-reviewed publications. Please visit my book page for information about my book, Governing for Revolution.
"Explaining Variation in Political Leadership by Marginalized Groups: Black Officeholding and 'Contraband Camps.'" [with Karin Kitchens]. Forthcoming at the Journal of Politics.
Appendix and replication materials.
"Foundations of the Vanguard: The Origins of Leftist Rebel Groups"
European Journal of International Relations.
Appendix and replication materials.
"Social Transformation and Violence: Evidence from U.S. Reconstruction"
Comparative Political Studies [with Karin Kitchens].
Appendix and replication materials.
*Read related media coverage at War on the Rocks and LSE's USAPP Blog.
"Revisiting Opportunism in Civil Conflict: Natural Resource Extraction and Health Care Provision"
Journal of Conflict Resolution [with Justin Conrad and Liana Reyes-Reardon].
"A Typology of Rebel Political Institutional Arrangements"
Journal of Conflict Resolution's Special Issue on Rebel Governance [with Zachariah Mampilly].
"Urban Concentration and Civil Wars: Population Distribution and Civil War Intensity"
Journal of Conflict Resolution [with Dani Nedal and Michael Weintraub].
"Rebel Governance: Military Boon or Military Bust?"
Conflict Management and Peace Science.
Appendix and replication materials.
“Secessionist Social Services Reduce the Public Costs of Civilian Killings: Experimental Evidence from the United States and United Kingdom”
Research and Politics [with D.J. Flynn].
“Civil War as State Building: Strategic Governance in Civil War”
International Organization.
Appendix and replication materials can be found here.
*Paper awarded honorable mention by APSA's Conflict Processes Section, 2016
*Read coverage on this work in the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog
"Do Good Borders Make Good Rebels? Foreign Territorial Control and Civilian Casualties."
Journal of Politics [with Yu-Ming Liou].
Appendix and replication materials can be found here.
*Read coverage on this work in the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog
“Mass Protests and the Resource Curse: The Politics of Demobilization in Rentier Autocracies”
Conflict Management and Peace Science [with Desh M. Girod and Meir Walters].
Appendix and replication materials can be found here.
"Revolution Reconsidered: An Alternative Approach to Understanding Social Revolution."
"The Republican Calendar and Labor Activism: Legacies of Revolution's Social Programs"
"The Distributional Politics of Inventing: Evidence from Woman's Labor Force Participation in World War II." [With Claire Brunel]
"Redistribution after War: Evidence from the U.S. Civil War'' [with Karin Kitchens].
"Two Sides of the Same Coin? Examining the Use of Terrorism by Governing Rebels.'' [with Sara M. Polo, Liana Eustacia Reyes, and Jessica Braithwaite]
"The Progressive Case for American Power."
Foreign Affairs [with Jon Petkun and Mara Revkin]
"One Perspective on the Evolution of Civil Wars Research.''
Civil Wars (25th Anniversary Issue).
"Identity, Networks, and Learning in the Study of Rebel Governance.''
Small Wars and Insurgencies