Excited to be co-organizing the Multi-Method Conflict Consortium at Duke May 15-16 with @meganastewart.bsky.social & @dotanhaim.bsky.social! Advanced PhD candidates and postdocs are invited to apply for our funded Junior Fellowship, deadline March 10: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Tomorrow is the day - please join us for what promises to be an engaging conversation with @lgamboa.bsky.social, Michael Coppedge, and Paola Bautista de Alemán. See you at 2pm in the Hesburgh Center!

Violence and Thriving Economies in Mexico flyer November 13, 2025 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM 457 - Schermerhorn Extension

Violence and Thriving Economies in #Mexico

Join us for a conference exploring how prosperity and violence intertwine across legal and illegal markets

November 13, 2025
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
📍457 - Schermerhorn Extension

Registration required: thrivingeconomies.eventbrite.com

In case you missed it! Here is last week’s Charlemos where the awesome @jolechartre.bsky.social discusses her amazing research

Thanks Laura!!

It's today!

Join us for this fantastic Charlemos featuring the great @jolechartre.bsky.social who will be discussing her award winning research!

Time: Monday 27, 2025: 3-3:30 pm ET (Online)

You can register here: forms.monday.com/forms/e0aefb...

Join me virtually on Monday October 27 at 3PM for an informal conversation about doing research on violence in Latin America at the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh! Registration required.

Excited for NPEC this week at Brown University where
@diegoromero.bsky.social
and I will present our work on the effects of organized crime on public procurement capture in Guatemala along such stellar colleagues! Thanks to @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social and Brian Knight for the invitation!

Excited to attend @arcconsortium.bsky.social's mini course on doing research in violence-affected settings at St Hilda's College @ox.ac.uk this week ! We'll talk about trauma-informed research, the true meaning of informed consent, post-fieldwork ethical considerations and practical field tips !

Thank you for the acknowledgements, Laura!

Joséphine Lechartre Receives the 2025 Gabriel A. Almond Award for “Genocide and Cultural Change: Civilian Survival Strategies and the Reinvention of Political Culture During Guatemala’s Mayan Genocide” The Gabriel A. Almond Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best doctoral dissertation in the field of comparative politics. Citation from the Award Committee: After reviewing a large number of excellent dissertations, the committee has unanimously selected for the Gabriel A. Almond Award Joséphine Lechartre’s exceptional work, “Genocide and Cultural Change: Civilian Survival Strategies and the Reinvention of Political Culture During Guatemala’s Mayan Genocide.”

Joséphine Lechartre Receives the 2025 Gabriel A. Almond Award for “Genocide and Cultural Change: Civilian Survival Strategies and the Reinvention of Political Culture During Guatemala’s Mayan Genocide”

The Gabriel A. Almond Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association…

Excited to share this important career milestone!