Dawn Brancati (Columbia PhD) is the author of two books, Peace by Design: Managing Intrastate Conflict through Decentralization and Democracy Protests: Origins, Features and Significance, and has published widely in leading academic and policy journals. Her research focuses on the relationship between democratic institutions and intrastate violence and has been recognized with awards, fellowships, and grants from various institutions, including the American Political Science Association, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University, German Marshall Fund, Harvard-MIT Data Center, and National Science Foundation. She has taught at Harvard University, Washington University in St. Louis, and now Columbia University.
Posts by Dawn Brancati
- Ten Years of Political Violence At A Glance, December 16, 2022.
- Has ISIS Made Gains as a Result of the Pandemic? June 28, 2021.
- Will Poll Watchers Make the US Elections Violent? October 12, 2020.
- Coronavirus and the Hong Kong Protests, February 20, 2020.
- Is Political Protest Contagious?, December 3, 2019.
- Why Have the Hong Kong Protests Lasted So Long?, October 29, 2019.
- Why has Sudan’s Tolerance for Anti-Regime Protests Run Dry?, June 18, 2019.
- The Egyptian Government Has Banned Yellow Vests. Should It?, December 21, 2018.
- Why Egypt’s Presidential Elections are Neither Democratic nor Contentious, March 14, 2018.
- Five Ways Art and War are Related, January 5, 2018.
- What’s Going On in Zambia?, August 17, 2016.
- Rebel ‘Wives’ on Broadway: An Interview with Evelyn Amony, June 10, 2016.