Postdoc at Brown @ppe_center, interested in political violence, crime, & democracy | @NorthwesternU alum, @Harvard PhD | I tweet funny quotes from family.
Excited to finally share my 🚨 new article 🚨 now online at @JPR_journal, “The Dark Side of Defection: Security Force Defectors and the Aftermath of Nonviolent Revolutions. https://t.co/5l86WWrXHd. Open Access here Brief 🧵
Please put in your calendar the June 14 deadline to submit a paper to the Political Economy at Brown Conference (deadline extended). Me and @briangknight look forward to seeing you in Providence on October 18th! 🍁🍂🍃
Non-academics: “Sure it’s specialized, but you can use your PhD for a lot of things!”
Me today: *hears word omertà in The Dynasty: Patriots documentary and dives into unprompted detail describing Italian mafias’ operations*
@ZachKulos I went up to a guy wearing a Bills jersey in Mexico, introduced myself, and asked if he was a fan. He said his sister lives in Buffalo and sent him the jersey 😂 Bills mafia everywhere
This article is the direct result of talking about fieldwork with colleagues. So if you just got back 'from the field,' grab coffee with a friend and see where it takes you. I'm grateful for this collaboration and all the people, workshops, & Centers that made it possible. (4/4)
Very excited to share this work! We show that neighborhoods can organize in response to a salient problem, even when they lack preexisting social capital or mobilizing structures. Local collective action has downstream effects, making future organizing more likely...(1/4)
@KChriswell9 (Brown) & @AlyssaHuberts (@TheLab_DC) ask what explains variation in effectiveness of neighborhood collective action? Argue local organizing infrastructure key to sparking/maintaining CA - place-based connections, orgs, knowledge & practices https://t.co/9RI7tGd4yL
We back this up with really interesting survey data from Mexico City residents, which we collected in 2021. If you're interested in collective action, neighborhood organizing, Latin America, or all of the above, please take a read. (3/4)