BA, MA University of Washington 1999, 2004; PhD University of Exeter 2010
Interests: Armed conflicts and humanitarian interventions in northern Africa
Fieldwork: Libya (Summer 2009), Algeria (October 2007 - June 2009); Morocco, Western Sahara, and Algeria (Summer 2003 and Fall 2005)
Western Sahara: War, Nationalism and Conflict Irresolution, coauthor with Stephen Zunes, Syracuse University Press 2010, Second Printing 2011
"Deconstructing Civil War: Beyond the New Wars Debate," Security Dialogue 42(3), June 2011: 279-295, http://sdi.sagepub.com/content/42/3/279.abstract
"Expert Intervention: Knowledge, Violence and Identity during the Algerian massacres," Cambridge Review of International Affairs 23(1), March 2010: 25-47, Special Issue on Scholarship and War: Ethics, Power and Knowledge, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09557570903540193
"Performing the Nation, Prefiguring the State: The Western Saharan Refugees Thirty Years Later," Journal of Modern African Studies 45(2), June 2007: 275-297, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X07002546
"Militia politics in Libya's national elections,” Foreign Policy Middle East Channel, 5 July 2012, http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/07/05/militia_politics_in_libyas_national_elections
"It’s official: Syria is a civil war. Or is it?” e-International Relations, 15 June 2012: http://www.e-ir.info/2012/06/15/its-official-syria-is-in-a-state-of-civil-war-or-is-it/
"Western Sahara’s 48 hours of rage," Middle East Report 40(4), N˚ 257, Winter 2010: 2-5, http://www.merip.org/mer/mer257/western-saharas-48-hours-rage
"Why the UN won’t solve Western Sahara (until it becomes a crisis)," coauthored with Anna Theofilopoulou, Foreign Policy Middle East Channel, 12 August 2010: http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/08/12/why_the_un_won_t_solve_western_sahara_until_it_becomes_a_crisis
"US militarization of the Sahara-Sahel: security, space and imperialism," Concerned Africa Scholars Bulletin N˚ 85 Spring 2010
http://concernedafricascholars.org/bulletin/issue85/
"How the US and Morocco seized the Spanish Sahara," Le Monde Diplomatique, English Language edition, January 2006: http://mondediplo.com/2006/01/12asahara
Invited paper: “It’s a trap! The contested politics and indisputable effects of US counter-terrorism policy in Africa’s Sahara-Sahel,” Humanitarian Dilemmas: Debating Interventions in Africa and the Middle East, Kent State, 5-6 April 2012, http://www.kent.edu/CAS/Lemnitzer/humanitarian.cfm
Co-chair: Wars beyond war: an international, interdisciplinary workshop, Colgate University, 30-31 March 2012, http://www.colgate.edu/academics/departments-and-programs/peace-and-conflict-studies/events/wars-beyond-war-workshop
Paper: “Just semantics, just politics: Is there a politics of naming civil wars?,” Understanding the Fight for Justice: Alternative Approaches to the Study of Civil Wars (co-chair and co-organizer), American Political Science Association, Seattle, 1-4 September 2011
Invited paper: "Representing Sahrawis: contested meanings of a post-colonial identity." Seminar on Minority Rights and Multiculturalism in the Arab World, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli & Istituto di Studi Politici S. Pio V, Rome, 25-26 March 2011
Invited presentation on Western Sahara: Challenges and Opportunities in the Maghreb Today: A Trans-Atlantic Dialogue, Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid, 12-13 May 2010
Paper: "Agents, Structures and Logics of Violence," Algerian Politics and the Politics of ‘Algeria’: Power, Knowledge and Representation, Middle East Studies Association, Boston, USA, 22 November 2009
Invited discussant: The Nexus between EU, Civil Society and Conflict in the European neighborhood, Workshop, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome, Italy, 19 June 2009
Paper: "New wars, new peace? Transitional/transnational justice in the late post-conflict environment," Post-Conflict Environment Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., 23-24 April 2009
Invited talk: "Sovereignty and the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on Western Sahara of 16 October 1975," Multilateralism and International Law with Western Sahara as a Case Study, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 4-5 December 2008
Chair and organizer: Powers, Politics and Violences: The Legacies of Algeria’s “War on Terror” (sponsored by the American Institute for Maghrib Studies), Middle East Studies Association, Washington, DC, 22-25 November 2008
Invited talk: "The Question of Sovereignty in the Western Sahara Conflict," La Cuestión del Sáhara Occidental en El Marco Jurídico Internacional, International Conference of the Jurists for Western Sahara, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, 27-28 June 2008
Chair and organizer: States and/of Saharan Studies, Saharan Studies Association panel, African Studies Association, New York, NY, 18-21 October 2007