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.
Posts by Christian Davenport
- The African Leader Summit Should Be About American as Well as African Political Violence, December 13, 2022.
- Democracy Is the Antidote to State Repression, December 12, 2022.
- Juneteenth 2.0—Or Putting Black Folk Back into Their Emancipation, June 19, 2022.
- Ukraine as an Instance of State Repression, March 3, 2022.
- Looking Back at 9/11, September 9, 2021.
- An Illustrated Glossary of Political Violence, January 18, 2021.
- Is 2020 the New 1968? June 15, 2020.
- Diversions: Objects of Repression (2012), April 3, 2020.
- Students, School Selection, and Social Science, December 12, 2017.
- Trumping the Domestic Democratic Peace, June 17, 2016.
- States of Fear and Killing AFROzilla, December 10, 2014.
- Measuring, “Denying” & “Trivializing” Deaths in the Case of Rwanda, October 24, 2014.
- Seeing Contention in Black and White: Protest and Protest Policing, August 17, 2014.
- Activists, Authorities and the Problem of Telling the Difference, April 29, 2014.
- Rwanda, Remembrance and Research: Or, How Rwandan Violence Taught Me to Embrace Subnational/Disaggregated Conflict Studies and Integral Conflict Research, April 10, 2014.
- Four Reasons Why Interstate Conflict Scholars Don’t Read Intrastate Work and Why They are Wrong, Part 2, January 30, 2014.
- Old Wine in an E-bottle (or, The Text that Mistook Itself for a Tactical Shift), January 28, 2014
- Four Reasons Why Interstate Conflict Scholars Don’t Read Intrastate Work and Why They Are Wrong, Part 1, January 21, 2014.
- Do Interventions End Repressive Spells? Insights for Syria from Previous Attempts, 1976-2003, September 11, 2013.
- Cartoons and Syria, September 10, 2013.
- The Atrocities Prevention Board Study Assistance Program (APBSAB), July 2, 2013.
- Is Turkey Burning? The Domestic Democratic Peace, Turkish Contention & New York Times Coverage, June 19, 2013.
- Researching While Black: Why Conflict Research Needs More African Americans (Maybe), April 10, 2013.
- Embodying Coercion: State Repression in 21 Objects, September 24, 2012.
- Violence in America, Redux, August 8, 2012.
- What’s “Political” about the Violence in the Dark Knight Rises? August 6, 2012.
- Give State (Repression) a Chance, July 11, 2012.
- Angels and Anarchists: A Conflict Scholar’s Response to Steven Pinker’s New Book, June 27, 2012.