dawn m. brancati

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I am the author of two books -- Peace by Design (Oxford, 2009) and Democracy Protests: Origins, Features, and Significance (Cambridge, 2016), a research methods textbook - Social Scientific Research (Sage 2018), and scores of articles in leading academic journals.  These journals include:  American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Journal of Politics, among others.  I am also the author of the Global Elections Database, a widely used database for international election results.
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I strive to connect my research to the broader public and policy community. To this end, I have written articles connecting my research to contemporary issues in policy journals and magazines, such as Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy, newspapers and academic blogs, such as The Acacemic Minute (NPR), The Conversation, Monkey Cage (Washington Post), and Political Violence @ a Glance, and have contributed commentaries to many news outlets and podcasts.   I have also advised various institutions, including  (inter)governmental institutions, including the CIA and USAID, US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, US State Department, and World Bank, and non-governmental institutions, such as International IDEA and the Kofi Annan Foundation.

I have been fortunate enough to have received awards, grants, and visiting fellowships from various institutions, including the American Political Science Association, the National Science Foundation, as well as Columbia, Harvard, and Yale universities. 

I earned my PhD (2003) and MA (1998) in political science from Columbia University with distinction and my BA (1997) with high honors in government from Cornell University.