Christian Davenport

Rank

Regular Faculty - Professor

Field(s)

Comparative Politics

Biography

Christian Davenport is a Professor of Peace Studies, Political Science & Sociology at the Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame, Director of the Illustrative Information Interface (III), the Radical Information Project (RIP) and Stop Our States (SOS) as well as Associate Editor of the Journal of Conflict Resolution.  Primary research interests include political conflict (e.g., human rights violations, genocide/politicide, torture, political surveillance, civil war and social movements), measurement, racism and popular culture. He is the author of four books - two solo-authored: State Repression and the Promise of Democratic Peace (2007, Cambridge University Press series in Comparative Politics), and Media Bias, Perspective and State Repression: The Black Panther Party (2010, Cambridge University Press series in Contentious Politics) and two edited: Repression and Mobilization with Carol Mueller and Hank Johnston (University of Minnesota Press.  2004), and Paths to State Repression: Human Rights Violations and Contentious Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).  Prof. Davenport is the author of numerous articles appearing in the American Political Science Review, the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Comparative Political Studies, and the Monthly Review (among others). He is the recipient of numerous grants (e.g., 6 from the National Science Foundation) and awards (e.g., the Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar Award and a Residential Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences – Stanford University).  Prof. Davenport is currently working on numerous books including To Kill a Movement: Mobilization, Repression and Demobilization; Toward Never (Again): Ending Genocide or At Least Trying To; In Search of a Number: Rethinking Rwanda, 1994 (with Allan Stam); and, Understanding Untouchability (with numerous authors).  He is also engaged in various projects concerning state-dissident interactions in the United States and Northern Ireland as well as launching his new data entry program – the Illustrative Information Interface or III (https://iii.nd.edu).  For more information, please refer to the following webpage: www.christiandavenport.com.

Contact Information

Office: 316 Hesburgh Center
Phone: 574-631-0361
Fax: 574-631-6973
Email: cdavenp1@nd.edu

Mailing Address

Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
100 Hesburgh Center
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5677