Background
Kanisha D. Bond examines sub-national conflict processes, with a special focus on how political and politicized identities influence militant mobilization and patterns of collective contention.
Her research highlights the interaction between group-level and individual-level attributes in determining the dynamics of protest and political violence. She also studies and writes about the challenges of observing and measuring contention in violence-affected spaces, and well as the practical ethics of research in challenging field sites. Her work broadly engages the methodological links between critical social theory and empirical conflict studies.
Her scholarship has been published in the American Political Science Review; Journal of Politics; British Journal of Political Science; Politics, Groups, and Identities; Political Science Research and Methods; Qualitative and Multi-Method Research; and International Negotiation, among other outlets. Bond is also a faculty affiliate of the Human Rights Institute at Binghamton, a non-resident fellow of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and a co-convener of the Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium, a scholarly consortium that introduces early-career social scientists to the methodological, practical and professional resources that researchers need to conduct robust fieldwork in fragile and violence-affected environments.
Education
- PhD, The Pennsylvania State University
- MPP, Georgetown University
- BA, Bucknell University
Research Interests
- Contentious collective action and political violence
- Sex, gender and conflict
- Mobilization-countermobilization dynamics
- Measurement and observability issues in conflict research
- Multi-method research design