Christian Davenport

Christian Davenport

Christian Davenport is The Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding, University of Michigan; Research Professor, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO); and Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS). His primary research interests include political conflict (e.g., human rights violations, genocide/politicide, torture, political surveillance, civil war, racism, economic violence, and social movements), popular culture, and creative archiving. He is the author of numerous books, including: The Death and Life of State Repression with Benjamin Appel (2022, Oxford University Press); The Peace Continuum with Erik Melander and Patrick Regan (2017, Oxford University Press); How Social Movements Die (2016, Cambridge University Press); Media Bias, Perspective and State Repression: The Black Panther Party (2010, Cambridge University Press); State Repression and the Promise of Democratic Peace (2007, Cambridge University Press).  Davenport is currently working on numerous books: Political Orders: Unifying the Study of Civil War, Genocide, State Repression, (counter) Protest, (counter) Terrorism and (counter) Revolution through Government-Challenger Interaction as well as The Consequences of Contention with David Armstrong, Hanne Fjelde and Havard Nygard; Ending Police Violence: A Global Analysis with Meg Burt; and, Forced Together: How Police Violence Unifies and not Divides Americans with David Armstrong. For more see www.christiandavenport.com.


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