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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nBrendan Mark <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies <\/p>\n\n\n\n Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science; University of Rhode Island Associate Director, Center for Non Violence & Peace Studies; University of Rhode Island Director, Security Forces, Rights & Society Lab, Center for Non Violence & Peace Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Dr. Roya Izadi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Associate Director of The Center for Non-Violence and Peace Studies, and the Director of Security Forces, Rights & Society (SFRS) Lab at the University of Rhode Island. She also directs the Naval War College\/Cornell University Internship at URI. She is also a Research Associate at the Gender and the Security Sector Lab (GSS lab) at the Government Department at Cornell University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Izadi’s research focuses on civil-military relations, political economy of security, militarization, gender and security forces, and political violence. Her work has been published or forthcoming in the \u201cJournal of Conflict Resolution,\u201d \u201cInternational Studies Quarterly,\u201d \u201cConflict Management and Peace Science,\u201d \u201cResearch and Politics,\u201d \u201cInternational Interactions,\u201d and \u201cArmed Forces and Society.\u201d For her research, she has received the 2020 \u201cStuart A. Bremer Award for the Most Outstanding Paper\u201d from the Peace Science Society (International), the 2021 \u201cPatricia Weitsman Award for Outstanding International Security Studies Section Paper\u201d by International Studies Association (ISA), and \u201c2021 Best Paper Award\u201d by the Inter-university Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. At URI, she teaches courses on civil-military relations, conflict, comparative political behavior, and politics of West Asia and North Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Izadi completed her undergraduate studies in Political Science at University of Tehran. She received her Masters in Political Science from Miami University in Ohio and her PhD from Binghamton University (SUNY).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ava Palma <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brendan Mark Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace StudiesBrendan Skip Mark joined the URI political science department in 2018. His research explores the intersections between human rights, political economy, collective dissent, and empirical methodology. He tries to unpack the determinants and consequences of: compliance with International Organization […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5153,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18489","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18671,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18489\/revisions\/18671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/strong>Brendan Skip Mark joined the URI political science department in 2018. His research explores the intersections between human rights, political economy, collective dissent, and empirical methodology. He tries to unpack the determinants and consequences of: compliance with International Organization agreements, repression, labor rights, violent and non-violent protest, migration and remittances, development, economic crisis, and economic and social rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Amanda Queiroz
Isabella Pizzo
Zahra Kahn
Emma Arcieri
Alex Bolland
Breana Knight
Zach Hurwitz
James Tomb
Tiffany Morel<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n