People Involved

Christian Davenport is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Radical Information Project at the University of Maryland - College Park. Primary research interests include human rights violations (why they occur and what impact they have on other political-economic phenomenon), social movements (why they occur and why they fail), measurement (how one does it and how this influences what one studies), and racism (why it exists and how one eliminates it). He is the author of numerous articles appearing in leading journals (e.g., the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Political Research Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, and the Monthly Review). He is the solo-editor of Paths to State Repression: Human Rights Violations and Contentious Politics (Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield. 2000), co-editor of Repression and Mobilization (forthcoming with the University of Minnesota Press, 2004) and he is currently working on two books entitled Source Matters: Contentious Politics, Data Generation and the Importance of Perspective and State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace. For more information, please refer to the following webpage: www.cdavenport.com.

Allan C. Stam, Associate Professor of Government and Deputy Director of Dartmouth’s Rockefeller Center, joined the Dartmouth faculty in 2000. Previously he taught at Yale University and American University. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1988, his M.A. (1991) and Ph.D. (1993) in Political Science from the University of Michigan. Before completing his undergraduate degree, he served as a communications specialist on an ‘A’ detachment in the U.S. Army Special Forces. He is currently a Captain in the Army Reserves. In the reserves, he served as an armor platoon leader, an armor battalion transportation officer, and an infantry basic training company executive officer. At Dartmouth, he teaches courses on International Relations and Political Methodology including courses on international organization, international political economy, interstate conflict, and military strategy. A specialist on international conflict and U.S. foreign policy, he has written widely on war outcomes, conflict durations, alliance politics, mediation and conflict resolution, and economic sanctions. His research has been published in the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and elsewhere. He has received several grants supporting his work on international conflict, including two from the National Science Foundation. Books he has written include Win Lose or Draw: Domestic Politics in the Crucible of War (University of Michigan Press, 1996), Democracies at War (Princeton University Press, 2002), The Behavioral Origins of War (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming, 2003). In his spare time, when he’s not writing about international politics, he is an avid gardener and woodworker residing in Lyme, NH.

Tricia Luong is a Research Associate for the Genodynamics project. She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2002, receiving a B.A. in both government and politics and Chinese. Through this position she has had the opportunity to travel to Rwanda numerous times working in an intense data collection effort to uncover information regarding the 1994 genocide. Additionally, she organized a survey of tortured victims, and trained individuals on how to collect and organize data. Currently, she is involved in the application process for a Ph.D. in political science. Her research interests include the influence of ethnic identity on violence in domestic conflicts in East Africa.

Dave Armstrong is a Statistical Consultant for the Genodynamics project. He graduated from the University of Maine in 1998 with a B.A. in Political Science and since then has been pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Maryland College Park. Mr. Armstrong's research interests include conflict, democracy, measurement and quantitative research methods. His Research has appeared in Political Geography and The American Journal of Political Science.