not in residence

Research Interests
political conflict and civil war; repression and state violence; democratization and hybrid regimes; political authority and neopatrimonialism; African politics

Philip Roessler was a postdoctoral fellow at CISAC in 2006-2007. He is currently an assistant professor at the College of William and Mary. He was also the Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in comparative government at the University of Oxford.

His PhD dissertation examined the effects of political authority on conflict initiation and escalation in Africa, with a focus on Sudan, where he conducted field research between March 2005 and April 2006. His article, "Donor-Induced Democratization and Privatization of State-Violence in Kenya and Rwanda," was published in Comparative Politics in January 2005 and his article (co-authored with Marc Morjé Howard), "Liberalizing Electoral Outcomes in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes," appeared in the American Journal of Political Science in April 2006.

Roessler received his PhD from the department of government and politics at the University of Maryland and his BA in political science from Indiana University.