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Academic CV
Professional Experience
Lecturer in International Relations
Department of Politics
University of Liverpool
September 2021 -
Fellow of Political Science and Public Policy
School of Public Policy
The London School of Economics and Political Science
September 2019 - August 2021
Fellow of Comparative Politics
Department of Government
The London School of Economics and Political Science
September 2017 - August 2019
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Carnegie Endowment/University of Alaska-Anchorage
September 2016 - August 2017
Instructor/Head Instructor
University of California, Berkeley
August 2008 - May 2015
Affiliated Researcher
Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR)
Kampala, Uganda
January - June 2013
Project Manager: Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP)
University of California, Berkeley
August 2009 - December 2014
Expert Coder/Consultant
International Peace Institute (IPI), New York City
May 2009 - August 2010
Research Associate
Independence Institute
Denver, CO, USA
June - August 2005
CV: CV
Education
December 2015
PhD, Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
Thesis: Rebels with a Cause: Negotiated settlements, power sharing and the logic of pre-emptive defection
Committee: Leonardo R. Arriola (Chair), Jason Wittenberg, Aila Matanock, Ann Swidler
May 2008
MA, Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation: “Colonial Legacies and Civil War in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Supervisor: Leonardo R. Arriola
August 2003 - May 2007
BA, International Affairs
Cornell University
Honours (Cum Laude) and Distinction in All Subjects
Thesis: “The Future of Foreign Aid to Africa: Toward a New Paradigm Through HIV/AIDS Relief Organizations
Supervisor: Nicolas van de Walle
CV: CV
Invited Talks and Conference Presentations
"Better Together: Rebel mergers in intra-state conflict"
Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Los Angeles, CA
31 August 2023
"Policy challenges in weak and transitioning states"
Guest lecture series at the School of Public Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
January - April 2023
"Process Tracing Techniques: Innovations to systematise qualitative research methods"
Methods Northwest Online Training Sessions, University of Manchester
21 December 2021
“Conditioning and Cutting off Foreign Aid in Post-Conflict Contexts.” Virtual workshop on Foreign Aid Withdrawals and Suspensions: Why, when, and are they effective? (Yale University/Univ of Birmingham)
24 May 2021
“Causal pathways of Rebel Defection from Negotiated Settlements: A theory of Strategic Alliances”
University of Oslo, Comparative Institutions and Regimes seminar series
25 September 2020
“Negotiating Peace and Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa”
London School of Economics, MSc Programme in International Strategy and Diplomacy
10 December 2019
“Post-conflict Power Sharing: Effects on vertical and horizontal accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Washington, DC
1 September 2019
“Who defects? New insights on rebel splintering, alliances, and conflict recurrence.”
Department of Government Colloquium, London School of Economics
26 May 2019
"Post-Conflict Democratization in Africa”
Francis Holland Sixth Form, London, UK
6 December 2018
“Barriers to all-inclusive peace processes: Structure, strategy, or signalling?”
Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Boston, MA
2 September 2018
“Corruption in conflict zones and its effects on state-building efforts”
Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Summer Program in London
2 August 2018
“Better Together? Examining the utility of all-inclusive peace agreements with evidence from Uganda and DR Congo.”
London School of Economics, African Political Economy Group
25 January 2018
“Power Sharing, Conflict Resolution, and the Logic of Pre-emptive Defection.”
Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), San Francisco, CA
2 September 2017
“Splintering and Spoilers in Peace Processes: Lessons from the rise of the Lord’s Resistance Army.”
African Studies Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley
29 August 2017
“Inclusive power sharing and multidimensional conflicts.”
Annual meeting of the Midwestern Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois
19 April 2015
“Patterns of Defection in Peace Processes”
Monday International Relations Thought Series, University of California, Berkeley
13 April 2015
“Inclusive Settlements, Power Sharing and Conflict Resolution”
Working Group on African Political Economy (WGAPE), Washington University, Seattle, Washington
9 January 2015
“Power sharing in Uganda: Trends, Lessons, and Remaining Challenges” Makerere Institute for Social Research (MISR), Kampala, Uganda
1 December 2013
“Power sharing in post-conflict societies: The case of Uganda”
Institute on Peace and Conflict Studies, Olympia Summer Academy, Olympia, Greece
14 July 2013
“Insurgents, Institutions and Post-conflict Elections”
Cal-APSA Conference, University of California, Los Angeles
6 October 2012
“Institutions and Violence in Post-conflict Elections.”
Symposium on Elections, Accountability and Democratic Governance in Africa, Institute for African Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
21 April 2012
“Election Violence in Democratizing States”
Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Seattle, Washington
4 September 2011
CV: CV
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