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Erica Chenoweth was an assistant professor of government at Wesleyan University and director of Wesleyan’s Program on Terrorism and Insurgency Research, which she established in 2008, until Summer 2012. Erica was a  visiting scholar at CISAC and a visiting scholar at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Previously, she has held fellowships at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, UC-Berkeley, and the University of Maryland. She is currently an academic advisor at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict and serves as a board member of the International Security and Arms Control Section of the American Political Science Association.

Erica is an internationally-recognized authority on terrorism, nonviolent resistance, and counterterrorism. Her three books include Why Democracy Encourages Terrorism (under contract with Columbia University Press); Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Columbia University Press, 2011) with Maria J. Stephan of the U.S. State Department; and Rethinking Violence: States and Non-State Actors in Conflict (MIT Press, 2010) with Adria Lawrence of Yale. The author of dozens of scholarly and popular articles, she hosts a blog called Rational Insurgent and is an occasional blogger at The Monkey Cage and Duck of Minerva.

Last updated: August 2012.