Christian Davenport

Christian Davenport is the director of the newly launched Conflict and Peace Initiative, a professor with the Department of Political Science, an associated faculty with the Human Rights Program, and a faculty associate with the Center for Political Studies. His primary research interests include political conflict (e.g., human rights violations, genocide/politicide, torture, political surveillance, civil war, and social movements), measurement, racism, and popular culture. He is the author of four books; two solo-authored: State Repression and the Promise of Democratic Peace, published by Cambridge University Press in 2007, and Media Bias, Perspective and State Repression: The Black Panther Party, published by Cambridge University Press in 2010–and winner of Best Book in Racial Politics and Social Movements by the American Political Science Association. In addition, he has two edited books: Repression and Mobilization with Carol Mueller and Hank Johnston, published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2004, and Paths to State Repression: Human Rights Violations and Contentious Politics, published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2000.

He recently finished his book, To Kill a Movement: Mobilization, Repression and Demobilization (currently under review at Cambridge University Press). Others are underway: Toward Never (Again): Ending Genocide or At Least Trying To; In Search of a Number: Rethinking Rwanda, 1994 (with Allan Stam); and, Understanding Untouchability (with numerous authors). He is also engaged in various projects concerning state-dissident interactions in the United States and Northern Ireland. He is also launching his new data entry program–the Illustrative Information Interface or III (https://iii.nd.edu).