Christian Davenport

Christian Davenport is a Professor of Peace Studies, Political Science & Sociology at the Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame as well as Director of the Radical Information Project (RIP) and Stop Our States (SOS).

Davenport's primary research interests include political conflict (e.g., human rights violations, genocide/politicide, torture, political surveillance/covert repressive action, civil war and social movements), measurement, and racism.

Davenport is the author of four books but most recently he published Media Bias, Perspective and State Repression: The Black Panther Party (2010, Cambridge University Press series in Contentious Politics). 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).

Davenport is currently working on a book entitled “To Kill a Movement: Mobilization, Repression and Demobilization.” For more information, please refer to the following webpage:www.christiandavenport.com.