CHRISTOPHER M. SULLIVAN O Shaughnessy 217 Notre Dame, IN 46556 United States CSulli16@nd.edu 631 987-2839 EDUCATIONAL 2008- University of Notre Dame South Bend, IN PhD. Candidate Research Fields Comparative Politics, International Relations Dissertation - Organizing Oppression: The Microdynamics of Political Repression in Guatemala Committee Christian Davenport (Chair), Michael Coppedge, Rory McVeigh, Naunihal Singh 2006-2008 University of Maryland College Park, MD M.A. in Government and Politics 2005-2006 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL M.S. in Comparative Politics - Cum Laude 2001-2005 Binghamton University Binghamton, NY B.A., with Honors in Political Science Cum Laude AWARDS AND HONORS 2010-2011 Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2010 Nanovic Institute for European Studies Graduate Initiatives Grant - $750 2010 Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts - Graduate Professional Development Award - $1000 2009 Kellogg Institute for International Studies Graduate Research Grant - $7000
2009 - Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Graduate Research Grant - $2000 2009 Kellogg Institute for International Studies Graduate Research Grant - $2600 2009 Downes Memorial Fund Graduate Travel Grant - $1000 2008 - Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change - Social Movement Research Grant - $1500 2008-2010 - Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts - Graduate Professional Development Grant $2150 2006 - University of Maryland - Graduate Fellowship 2005 - Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam - Rutgers Scholarship PUBLICATIONS (NON-PEER REVIEWED) What the Afghan War Diary Really Tells Us About the Changing Dynamics of the Conflict (with Javier Osario) Small Wars Journal WORKS CURRENTLY UNDER REVIEW All Genocide is Local: An Empirical Examination of Massacres in a Counter Insurgency Campaign The (In-)Effectiveness of Torture One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Repression, Mobilization and the Difficulty of Achieving Successful Counter-Insurgent Outcomes (with Christian Davenport) CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS The (In-)Effectiveness of Torture Households in Conflict Workshop, Bogota, Colombia
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Repression, Mobilization and the Difficulty of Achieving Successful Counter-Insurgent Outcomes Peace Science Society North American Conference 2010, Fort Worth, TX All Genocide is Local: An Empirical Analysis of Massacres in a Counter-Insurgency Campaign. Households in Conflict Conference on The Behavioral and Cultural Consequences of Violence 2010, Lisbon, Portugal State Surveillance and State Repression in Guatemala. Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change Young Scholars Conference 2010, Notre Dame, IN The Effectiveness of Torture in Combating Insurgency, Network of European Peace Scientists Conference 2010, Amsterdam, Netherlands Does Torture Work? An Empirical Investigation of the Effects of State Torture in Guatemala, International Studies Association Conference 2010, New Orleans, LA The De-Escalation of Political Violence in Northern Ireland: Armed Force and Negotiated Settlement, Western Political Science Association Conference 2009, Vancouver, BC Hearts, Minds or Souls? The Spatial Variation of Genocidal Violence in a Counter-Insurgency Campaign, International Studies Association Conference 2009, New York, NY Biting the Hand that Feeds them? The Logic of Insurgent Terrorism, International Studies Association Conference 2009, New York, NY Hearts, Minds or Souls? The Spatial Variation of Genocidal Violence in a Counter-Insurgency Campaign, Peace Science Society North American Conference 2008, Claremont, CA
ADDITIONAL EDUCATION ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, University of Michigan July 2010 ICA Language School, Intensive Spanish Training, Quezaltenango, Guatemala April 2010, July-August 2009 GIS for Peace and Conflict Studies, Trondheim University September, 2009 Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR), Arizona State University - January, 2008 Olympia Summer Seminar on Identity, Conflict and Violence, Sponsored by the Yale Program on Order, Conflict and Violence July, 2007 POLNET Social Network Analysis, European Consortium for Political Research, Tilburg University June, 2007 RESEARCH Northern Ireland Research Initiative Database Manager, Winter 2008 to Present Christian Davenport, Radical Information Project Research Assistant, Summer 2008 to Present Joseph Hewitt, Center for International Development and Conflict Management - Research Assistant, Spring 2008 EDITING The Journal of Conflict Resolution - Managing Editor, 2009 to Present
TEACHING Teaching Assistant, Spring 2011 Poverty and Economic Development in Guatemala Teaching Assistant, Fall 2007 - Intro to International Relations DISCIPLINARY SERVICE Panel Organizer ISA 2010, APSA 2011 Reviewer - Mobilization LANGUAGE SKILLS Spanish Spoken: Proficient, Reading/Writing: Proficient Dutch Spoken: Beginner, Reading/Writing: Beginner Turkish Spoken: Beginner, Reading/Writing: Beginner SOFTWARE SKILLS Statistics - Stata 10, Excel Spatial Analysis GIS 10 Network Analysis Vizone, UCInet RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS Kellogg Institute for International Studies Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change Social Science Research Council