Published Articles
“A Cause to Fight” (with Scott Abramson), American Journal of Political Science, 2026, 70(2): 522-538.
Endogenous Colonial Borders: Geography, Precolonial States and the Partition of Africa (with Jack Paine and Joan Ricart-Huguet), American Political Science Review, 2025, 119(1): 1-20 (lead article)
2026 APSA Politics and History – Mary Parker Follett Prize (best article)
2026 APSA International History and Politics – Outstanding Article Award
2025 APSA Comparative Politics Luebbert Best Article Award
Honorable Mention for 2025 Best Article Award from the African Politics Conference Group (APCG)
Media: Broadstreet Blog, ZME Science, Newsbeezer, News24
State Support for Rebels and Interstate Bargaining, American Journal of Political Science, 2022, 66(4): 993-1007
Rebel Strategies and the Prospects for Peace, American Journal of Political Science, 2022, 66(1): 140-155
Other Publications
“Myths of Border Formation in Colonial Africa: The Role of Precolonial States and Water Bodies” (with Jack Paine and Joan Ricart-Huguet), The Routledge Handbook of African Borderlands, 2026, Chapter 8. Link to handbook
Working papers
“Issue Salience and International Crisis Bargaining”
“The Foreign Sponsor’s Dilemma”
“Radicalism and External Threat” (With Daniel Kselman)
Work in progress
“Rebel Strategies and Government Counterinsurgency”
“Bite the Hand that Feeds: Sponsor-Rebel Relations after Regime Transition” (With Myung Jung Kim)