简介

I study institutions and behaviors during violent conflict and its aftermath, the post-conflict transitional phase. My book with Cambridge University Press (Studies in Law and Society) is expected out in late 2015. Title:Investing in Authoritarian Rule: Punishment and Patronage in Rwanda's Gacaca Courts for Genocide Crimes. I have a particular expertise in designing research projects, conducting fieldwork and handling data generated in high-risk research contexts. Where appropriate (in terms of field strategy) and useful (in terms of analytical leverage), I use a range of qualitative strategies combined with other methodologies (surveys, game theoretic frameworks and experimental designs). My research is on Africa, particularly Rwanda and east-central Africa, and South Asia, particularly India. The following institutions have supported my research at various stages: the Ford-Foundation funded Program for Transnational Contention, the Peace Studies program and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University, the Joan B. Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame, the Center for Advanced Study in International Development at Michigan State University, and a Provost’s Grant for the Social Sciences at the University of South Carolina. I enjoy bringing a research perspective to the practitioner world—and have participated in The Carter Center’s Election Observation Mission in the Presidential and Legislative Elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2011), and served as consultant on asylum application cases to the US and Canadian governments as well as pro bono clinics at US-based law schools.