Education

Ph.D., Public Policy, Harvard University, 2009

M.P.A., International Development, Harvard University, 2003

B.A., Physics, Swarthmore College, 1999

Current Employment

Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of California, Riverside, 2009-present

Past Employment

Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, UC Riverside (2011-2)

Fellow, Program on Order, Conflict, Violence, Yale University, 2008-9

Consultant, World Bank, 2002-2003, 2005-2010

Consultant, United Nations Development Programme, 2004

Research Assistant, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, 1999-2001

Publications

Book

The Institutional Origins of Communal Violence: Indonesia's Transition from Authoritarian

    Rule, Cambridge University Press (Under Contract)

Articles

"The Institutional Basis of Intercommunal Order: Evidence from Indonesia's Democratic

    Transition" American Journal of Political Science (Forthcoming).  Link here.

"Explaining Ethnic Violence in Indonesia: Demilitarizing Domestic Security."  Journal of East

    Asian Studies 8, 2008, 451-472. 

        Reprinted in Ashutosh Varshney (ed.), Collective Violence in Indonesia, New York:

        Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010, 99-118.

Understanding the Livelihoods of Former Insurgents: Aceh, Indonesia, Indonesian Social

    Development Papers No. 17, Jakarta: World Bank, 2010. 

Mobilizing for Violence: The Escalation and Limitation of Identity Conflicts: The Case of

    Lampung, Indonesia, Indonesian Social Development Papers No. 3, World Bank, 2004. 

  

Working Papers

The Proliferation of Gangs during Authoritarian Breakdown: The Emergent Market for

    Protection in Indonesia

“Wartime Violence and Ex-Insurgent Reintegration Assistance: Survey Evidence in

    Postwar Aceh, Indonesia”

“Interlopers in Ethnic Conflicts: A Model of Ethnic Militia Violence”

Book Chapter, “Economic Reintegration,” in Nat J. Colletta, Estanislao Gacitua-Mario

    and Ben Oppenheim (Eds.) Beyond DDR: The Nexus of Governance, Security and

    Development.

Presentations

Invited Talk, “The Institutional Basis of Intercommunal Order and Violence: Indonesia's    

    Transition from Authoritarian Rule.”  Methodology in Southeast Asian Studies Workshop. 

    University of Freiburg, Germany, May 2012

Invited Talk, “Order and Violence: Communal Violence during Indonesia’s Authoritarian

    Breakdown.” School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of

    California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, May 2011

Workshop Presentation, “Reintegration of Former Insurgents: Aceh, Indonesia.” Institute on

    Global Conflict and Cooperation, Irvine, CA, January 2011

Invited Talk (in Indonesian), “Ex-Combatant Livelihoods in Aceh: Behavior and Outcomes of

    Former GAM Soldiers” at Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution Studies, Aceh,

    Indonesia, November 2009

Invited Talk, “Ex-Combatant Livelihoods in Aceh: Behavior and Outcomes of Former GAM

    Soldiers.” World Bank, Jakarta, Indonesia, November 2009

Invited Talk, “Explaining Communal Violence in Indonesia during Transition,” World Bank,

    Jakarta, Indonesia, November 2009

Conference Presentation, “Interlopers in Ethnic Conflicts: Christian-Muslim Violence in

    Indonesia.” APSA Meeting, Toronto, Canada, September 2009

Invited Talk, “Economic Reintegration of Ex-Combatants” International Disarmament,

    Demobilization, and Reintegration Conference, Cartagena, Colombia, May 2009

Invited Talk, “How Institutions Explain Communal Violence during Indonesia’s Authoritarian

    Breakdown” Political Science Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT, November

    2008.

Invited Talk, “Running Amok in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Ethnic Violence during Reformasi

    Indonesia.” Order, Conflict, Violence Seminar, Yale University, New Haven, CT, October

    2008

Conference Presentation, “Informal Institutions and Ethnic Violence During Democratic

    Transitions: The Case of Indonesia” APSA Meeting, Boston, MA, August 2008

Conference Presentation, “The Effect of War-Time Violence on Ex-Combatant Economic    

    Reintegration” Order, Conflict, Violence Conference, New Haven, CT, April 2008

Conference Presentation, “Running Amok in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Ethnic Violence during

    Democratization” Harvard, Yale, MIT Conference on Civil Conflict, Cambridge, MA, April

    2007

“Insurgent Interlopers and Ethnic Violence.” Delivered at Peace Research Institute of Oslo

    Workshop on First Actors in Civil Wars, Oslo, Norway, August 2006.

“Displacing the Risks of Joining Insurgencies with the Threat of Ethnic Violence.” Delivered at

    Peace Research Institute of Oslo Workshop on First Actors in Civil Wars, Oslo, Norway,

    August 2006.

“Peace and Development Analysis: Central Sulawesi” (With Graham Brown) UNDP, Jakarta,

    Indonesia, September 2005.

“Mobilizing for Violence: The Escalation and Limitation of Identity Conflicts: The Case of

    Lampung, Indonesia”, Indonesian Social Development Paper Series, No. 3. World Bank,

    Jakarta, Indonesia, 2004.

Invited Lecture (in Indonesian), “Satu Hipotesa Kerusuhan Selama Waktu Reformasi.”

    Universitas Tadulako, 21 Feb 2006. Palu, Indonesia

Invited Lecture, “Village Alliances, Militia-Gangs, and the Escalation of Identity Conflict: The

    Case of Lampung.” World Bank, 19 August 2004. Jakarta, Indonesia

Fellowships and Awards

IGCC Project Development Grant, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, 2012-3

Pacific Rim Initiative Grant, Pacific Rim Research Program, 2012-4

Principal Investigator, EDGE-IE Grant Randomized Control Trial Evaluation administered by

    Social Impact, Inc. from USAID, 2011.

Chancellor’s Strategic Initiative Grant, Seed Money for GIS Center (with David Biggs and

    Rob Parker), 2011.

Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside, 2011

Regents Faculty Fellowship, University of California, Riverside, 2009

Order, Conflict, and Violence Fellowship, Yale University, 2008

Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University, 2007

Sinclair Kennedy Traveling Fellowship, Harvard University, 2005

Harvard University Distinction in Teaching Award, 2005

Public Policy Fellowship, Harvard University, 2003

Center for International Development Grant, Harvard University, 2002