Phone: 301.405.4721
Office: 3114H Tydings Hall
Email: kanisha at umd•edu
Curriculum
Vitae
Kanisha Bond received her Ph.D. in Political Science from The Pennsylvania
State University in 2010. She previously received an M.P.P. (International Development
and Crime Policy) from the Georgetown Public Policy Institute in Washington,
DC in 2004, and a BA in International Relations and Spanish from Bucknell University
in 2002.
Her research interests include the organizational ecology of violent extremism,
civil war dynamics, links between sub- and transnational conflict and cooperation,
and the politics of Latin America and Southern Europe.
Bond is currently engaged in two large research projects. The first, based on
her dissertation research, examines the ways in which the politics of power and
identity influence the development of security alliances among violent non-state
actors. Also part of this project are investigations of the effects of these
collaborations on both civil war dynamics and interstate relationships. A key
feature of this project is the collection and analysis of an original dataset
that includes information on the power and identity characteristics of violent
non-state actors in the Western Hemisphere from 1940-2008, as well as information
on their collaborative relationships. She is currently working on a book manuscript
based on this project.
The second project seeks to uncover what underlies both the structural organization
of women’s participation in violent insurgent organizations as well as its frequency.
Building upon and extending conclusions drawn by extant qualitative and historical
research on women in insurgent organizations, this project has three broad aims:
to uncover broader patterns in the distribution of women across insurgent organizations,
over time; to examine differences in the ways in which the incorporation of women
influences the internal structure of these organizations; and to establish further
the theoretical links between individual-level and organization-level variables
in determining both outcomes. This project is also associated with an ongoing
data collection effort, which thus far has yielded systematic, time-varying information
on the presence of women, the degree of autonomy afforded to participating women,
and women’s activities in insurgent organizations based in Latin America and
East Africa, during the period 1940-2005. This project is coauthored with Jakana
Thomas of Penn State University.
The Politics of Terrorism (GVPT
459T)
Civil Wars (GVPT 459W)
