LAIABALCELLS
WoodrowWilsonSchoolofPublicand
InternationalAffairs,
PrincetonUniversity
Princeton,NJ
Tel.(609)258-4778
Fax.(609)269-2259
[email protected]
EMPLOYMENT
AssistantProfessor,DepartmentofPoliticalScience,DukeUniversity.July2012–
VisitingAssociateResearchScholar,NiehausCenterforGlobalizationandGovernance,
WoodrowWilsonSchoolofPublicandInternationalAffairs,PrincetonUniversity.September
2015-July2016
Researcher,Institutd’AnàlisiEconòmica-CSIC,Barcelona.January2010–July2012
AffiliatedProfessor,BarcelonaGraduateSchoolofEconomics.July2010–July2012
AffiliatedProfessor,UniversitatPompeuFabra,Barcelona.DepartmentsofEconomicsand
PoliticalScience.March2010-September2011
EDUCATION
PhDinPoliticalScience(May2010).YaleUniversity(withUniversityDistinction)
DoctoraMiembro(2010),CenterforAdvancedStudyintheSocialSciences,JuanMarch
Institute,Madrid,Spain
MA(2006)andMPhil(2007)inPoliticalScience.YaleUniversity
MAinSocialSciences(2005).CenterforAdvancedStudyintheSocialSciences,JuanMarch
Institute,Madrid,Spain
BAinPoliticalScience(2002).UniversitatPompeuFabra,Barcelona,Spain.Highesthonours
forbestGPAinthe‘02class(PremiExtraordinarideFid’Estudis).
Certificatd’ÉtudesPolitiques(2001).SciencesPo,Institutd’ÉtudesPolitiquesdeToulouse,
France
PUBLICATIONS
Bookmanuscript:
2016.RivalryandRevenge:thePoliticsofViolenceduringCivilWar.CambridgeStudiesin
ComparativePolitics,CambridgeUniversityPress.[Underproduction]
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Peer-ReviewedArticles
2016.“Warfare,PoliticalIdentities,andDisplacementinSpainandColombia”(withAbbey
Steele),PoliticalGeography51:15-29.
2016.“Thedeterminantsoflow-intensityintergroupviolence:thecaseofNorthernIreland”
(withAbelEscribàandLesleyDaniels)JournalofPeaceResearch53:33-48.
-WinnerofHonorableMention:2015BestPaperAward;ConflictProcessesSectionof
theAmericanPoliticalScienceAssociation(APSA).
2015.“PreferencesforRegionalRedistribution”(withJoséFernández-AlbertosandAlexander
Kuo)ComparativePoliticalStudies48:1318-1351.
2014.“BridgingMicroandMacroApproachesonCivilWarsandPoliticalViolence:Issues,
Challenges,andtheWayForward”(withPatriciaJustino).JournalofConflictResolution58(8):
1343-1359.
2014.“DoesWarfareMatter?Severity,Duration,andOutcomesofCivilWars"(withStathisN.
Kalyvas).JournalofConflictResolution58(8):1390-1418.
2013.“MassSchoolingandCatalanNationalism”NationalismandEthnicPolitics19(4):467486.
2013.“EconomicCrisis,Globalization,andPartisanBias:EvidencefromSpain”International
StudiesQuarterly57(4):804-816.(withJoséFernández-AlbertosandAlexanderKuo)
2012.“PartyPolarisationandSpatialVotinginSpain”SouthEuropeanSocietyandPolitics
17(3):393-409.(withLluísOrriols).ReprintedinVotersandPartiesintheSpanishPolitical
Space,EditedbyIgnacioSánchez-CuencaandEliasDinas.London:Routledge.
2012.“TheConsequencesofVictimizationonPoliticalIdentities.EvidencefromSpain.”Politics
&Society40(3):309-345.
2011.“ContinuationofPoliticsbyTwoMeans:DirectandIndirectViolenceinCivilWar.”
JournalofConflictResolution55(3):397-422.
2011.“DeterminantsofAttitudestowardsTransitionalJustice.”ComparativePoliticalStudies
44(10):1397-1430.(WithPalomaAguilarandHéctorCebolla)
2011.“Deathisintheair:bombingsinCatalonia,1936-1939.”RevistaEspañolade
InvestigacionesSociológicas136:193-214.
2010.“InternationalSystemandTechnologiesofRebellion:HowtheColdWarShapedInternal
Conflict.”AmericanPoliticalScienceReview.August2010(Vol.104No.3):415-429.(With
StathisN.Kalyvas).
-Winnerofthe2010AmericanPoliticalScienceAssociation(APSA)GregoryLuebbert
AwardtoBestArticleinComparativePolitics.
2010.“RivalryandRevenge.ViolenceagainstCiviliansinConventionalCivilWars.”
InternationalStudiesQuarterly54(2):291-313.
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2009.“AnalyzingthedivisionofhouseholdlaborwithinSpanishfamilies.”Revista
InternacionaldeSociología67(1):83-105.
2006.“TradeOpennessandPreferencesforRedistribution:ACross-NationalAssessmentofthe
CompensationHypothesis.”BusinessandPolitics8(2).
SpecialIssuesandMonographs
2014.“BridgingMicroandMacroApproachesonCivilWarsandPoliticalViolence:Issues,
Challenges,andtheWayForward”.JournalofConflictResolution.Editor(withPatriciaJustino).
ChaptersinBooksandArticlesbyInvitation
2015.“PoliticalViolence:aninstitutionalapproach”InHandbookofComparativePolitical
Institutions.EditedbyJenniferGandhiandRubénRuiz.London:RoutledgePress.
2017.Micro-LevelApproachestotheCausesofCivilWar.OxfordEncyclopediaofEmpirical
InternationalRelationsTheory.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress.[Inprogress.Undercontract].
BookReviews
2012.ReviewEssayofArielAhram’sProxyWarriors:TheRiseandFallofStateSponsored
Militias;TimothyD.Sisk’sInternationalMediationinCivilWars.BargainingwithBullets;
AmalenduMisra’sPoliticsofCivilWars:Conflict,InterventionandResolution.InDemocracy
andSecurity8(4):406-414.
2009.StathisN.Kalyvas(2006)TheLogicofViolenceinCivilWar.Cambridge,Cambridge
UniversityPress.InRevistaEspañoladeCienciaPolítica(20):177-184[InSpanish].InPôleSud
30:147-149[InEnglish]
Datasets
TechnologiesofRebellion(TR)Dataset
PRIO100TechnologiesofRebellion(PRIO100)Dataset
ViolenceinCataloniaandAragonduringtheSpanishCivilWarDataset
SelectedOngoingResearchProjects
“Identity,Redistribution,andSecession.AnExperimentalApproachtotheCatalanCase”(with
JoséFernández-AlbertosandAlexanderKuo)[inprogress]
“MarxistInsurgencies”(withStathisN.Kalyvas)[inprogress]
PRIZESandAWARDS
2015.Honorablemention,BestPaperAward.ConflictProcessesSectionoftheAmerican
PoliticalScienceAssociation.(withLesley-AnnDanielsandAbelEscribà-Folch)
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2011.GregoryLuebbertArticleAwardforbestarticleinComparativePolitics,American
PoliticalScienceAssociation(withStathisN.Kalyvas)
2009.BestDoctoralPaperPrize.ASNWorldConvention.ColumbiaUniversity.
2007.Prize“YoungResearchers”.SpanishHigherScientificResearchCouncil(IESA-CSIC).
2002.PrizeforOutstandingAchievementinUndergraduatesStudies(PremiExtraordinarideFi
d’Estudis).BestGPAinthePoliticalScience’02Class.UniversitatPompeuFabra(UPF).
1997.PrizeforOutstandingAchievementinSecondaryStudies(PremiExtraordinaride
Batxillerat),GovermentofCatalonia.
FELLOWSHIPSandSCHOLARSHIPS
2015.“CátedradeExcelencia”(ExcellenceChair).CarlosIIIUniversity,Madrid.
2015.DukeUniversityArts&SciencesCouncilCommitteeonFacultyResearch(ASC-CFR)
Grant.Pilotproject:WomeninArmedConflict.
2015.NiehausFellowship.WoodrowWilsonSchool,PrincetonUniversity.
2015.CASBSFellowship,StanfordUniversity(Declined).
2011.RICIPGrant(CatalanInstituteofPeace);Projecton“TechnologiesofRebellionand
ViolenceduringCivilWar”.LeadResearcher.
2011.Grant“CàtedraPasqualMaragall”(withJoséFernándezAlbertosandAlexanderKuo);
Project:"Territorio,IdentidadyPreferenciasRedistributivas.UnaAproximaciónExperimental".
2011.“Recercaixa”Grant(WithJoanEsteban-LeadResearcher-,StathisKalyvas,Laura
Mayoral,andDebrajRay).Project:“SocialConflictandEconomic,EthnicandReligious
Polarization.”
2010.TheHarryFrankGuggenheimFoundationResearchGrant.Project:“ConventionalCivil
Wars”.
2009.LeylanFellowshipintheSocialSciences.YaleGraduateSchoolofArtsandSciences.
2009.DissertationGrant.CentrodeInvestigacionesSociológicas,GovernmentofSpain.
2008.MacmillanCenterDissertationGrant,YaleUniversity.
2008.JohnF.EndersFellowship,GraduateSchoolofArtsandSciences,YaleUniversity.
2008.GeorgeWalterLeitnerPrograminInternationalandComparativePoliticalEconomy
Fellowship,YaleUniversity.
2008.SurveyGrant(MódulodeEncuesta),CentrodeInvestigacionesSociológicas(withPaloma
AguilarandHéctorCebolla).
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2004.PhDScolarshipfromtheGraduateSchoolofArtsandSciences,YaleUniversity(20042009)
2006.ScholarshipfromthePoliticalScienceDepartment,YaleUniversity,toattendICPSR
summerprograminMichigan.
2004.ScholarshipfromUrrutiaElejaldeFoundationtoattendVIISummerschoolonEconomics
andPhilosophy.
2003.ScholarshipfromtheEuropeanConsortiumofPoliticalResearch(ECPR)toattendEssex
SummerSchoolinSocialScienceDataAnalysisandCollection.
2002.PhDScolarship,CentrodeEstudiosAvanzadosenCienciasSociales,JuanMarchInstitute,
Madrid(2002-2006).
2000.ScholarshipErasmus-SocratesoftheEuropeanUniontoattendScience-PoToulouse.
1998.ScholarshipfromtheSpanishMinistryofEducationandCulture(1998-1999)withtuition
forthefirstyearofundergraduatestudies.Honoursinsecondarystudies.
CONFERENCESandWORKSHOPPRESENTATIONS
Conferences:AmericanPoliticalScienceAssociationMeeting(2016,2015,2014,2013,2012,
2011,2010,2009,2007,2005),MidwestPoliticalScienceAssociationAnnualMeeting(2013,
2012,2011,2009),EuropeanPoliticalScienceAssociationMeeting(2014,2013),SocialScience
HistoryAssociation(2013),CouncilofEuropeanStudiesConference(2015,2013,2011),
InternationalStudiesAssociationAnnualMeeting(2016,2015,2014,2010,2009),Annual
WorldConventionoftheAssociationfortheStudyofNationalities(2016,2015,2014,2013,
2009,2008),SpanishSociologyCongress(2007),CongressoftheSpanishAssociationof
PoliticalScience(2003).
InvitedTalks,WorkshopsandResearchSeminars:HarvardUniversity,ColumbiaUniversity,
BrownUniversity,PrincetonUniversity(EUProgram;EmpiricalStudiesofConflict),Yale
University,BinghamtonUniversity,WestPointMilitaryAcademy,GeorgetownUniversity,
GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,UniversitédeMontréal,UniversityofDenver-SiéCenter,Rice
University,Institutd’Estudisd’Autogovern,Barcelona(2016);PrincetonUniversity(IRFaculty
Colloquim),BarcelonaIPEG,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,UniversityofMichigan,Triangle
InstituteforSecurityStudies(2015);DukeUniversitySecurity,Peace,andConflictWorkshop
(2015,2012);LondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience,ITAM,ColumbiaUniversity,
HarvardUniversity,StanfordUniversity(GraduateSchoolofBusiness),Northwestern
University(2014);HigherSchoolofEconomicsandNewEconomicSchool,Moscow,University
ofVirginia,YaleUniversity,CatholicUniversityofChile,USAID-UniversityofMaryland,Priorat
WorkshopinTheoreticalPoliticalScience(organizedbyIAE-CSIC,Caltech,andEuropean
UniversityInstitute),CenterforEuropeanStudies-HarvardUniversity,ICSLisbon(2013);
UniversityofChicago,CenterfortheStudyofCivilWar-PRIO,InstitutodePolíticasPúblicasCSIC(2012);UniversityofMichigan,DukeUniversity,GeorgetownUniversity,George
WashingtonUniversity,UniversityofWashington-Seattle,UniversityofCalifornia-Berkeley,
UppsalaUniversity,NewYorkUniversity-AbuDhabi,NewYorkUniversity(2011);Householdsin
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ConflictNetworkWorkshop(Barcelona,2011;Lisbon,2010;Berlin,2010;YaleUniversity
2008);InstitutBarcelonad’EstudisInternacionals(IBEI)(2009);UniversitatPompeuFabra
(2010);UniversitatAutònomadeBarcelona(2010);CatalanInternationalInstituteforPeace
(ICIP)(2010);ConferenceontheDeterminantsofSocialConflict(2009);YaleUniversity;
Harvard-Yale-MITCivilConflictConference(2007,2008);InstitutodeEstudiosSociales
AvanzadosdeAndalucía,IESA-CSIC(2006);GraduateStudentRetreatoftheSocietyof
ComparativeResearch(YaleUniversity;Budapest).
ConferencesOrganized
“ThePoliticalEconomyofStateRepression”PrincetonUniversity.October2016(withCarles
Boix).
“UnderstandingConflict”Workshop,BarcelonaSummerForum(BGSE):June2014,June2013,
June2012(withDebrajRay,JoanEstebanandLauraMayoral).
“RivalryandRevenge”BookConference.DukeUniversity.April2013.
HouseholdsinConflictWorkshop,Institutd’AnàlisiEconòmica,CSIC.November2011(with
HiCN).
TEACHING
“CivilWars.”BarcelonaSchoolofInternationalRelations(IBEI)SummerSchool2015;IBEIMA
inInternationalRelations2015,2016.
“CivilWars.”GraduateSeminar.DukeUniversity.Spring2013;Spring2014;Spring2015;Fall
2016.
“EthnicConflict.”UndergraduateLecture.DukeUniversity.Spring2014;Spring2015.
“PoliticsinViolence.”UndergraduateSeminar.DukeUniversity.Fall2013;Fall2014;Fall2016.
“ConflictandIdentity”.OlympiaSummerSeminars.Olympia,Greece,12-23July2014.
“EconomicsandPoliticsofConflict”(co-taughtwithJoanM.Esteban/HannesMueller).
BarcelonaGraduateSchoolofEconomics.June2014,June2013.
“Guerrasciviles”.UniversitatAutònomadeBarcelona(UAB).Module“Democracyand
Citizenship”,MAProgram,DepartmentofPoliticalScience.Fall2011.(InSpanish)
“ConflictandIdentity”.OlympiaSummerSeminars.Olympia,Greece,7-18July2011.
“TheoryofPoliticalInstitutions”.UniversitatPompeuFabra(UPF).DepartmentofEconomics.
Spring2011.(InCatalan)
“PoliticalBehaviorandPublicOpinion”.UniversitatPompeuFabra(UPF).Departmentof
PoliticalScience.Fall2010.(InCatalan)
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BasicStatisticsforSocialSciences.UniversitatPompeuFabra(UPF).DepartmentofPolitical
Science.Spring2010.(InCatalan)
PHDADVISING
SethCantey,PoliticalScienceDepartment,DukeUniversity(PhD).
Placement:AssistantProfessoratWashingtonandLeeUniversity.
DanielKrcmaric,PoliticalScienceDepartment,DukeUniversity(PhD).
Placement:AssistantProfessoratNorthwesternUniversity.
CassyDorff,PoliticalScienceDepartment,DukeUniversity(PhD).
Placement:AssistantProfessoratUniversityofNewMexico.
AndrewBell,PoliticalScienceDepartment,DukeUniversity(PhD)
Placement:AssistantProfessoratUniversityofIndiana,Bloomington.
JaredDaugherty,PoliticalScienceDepartment,DukeUniversity(PhD)
JuanTellez,PoliticalScienceDepartment,DukeUniversity
SophieLee,PoliticalScienceDepartment,DukeUniversity
INDEPENDENTSTUDIESANDUNDERGRADUATEHONORSTHESISSUPERVISION
RyanBoone,Duke‘13.“SecuritySectorReform”.IndependentStudyandHonorsThesis
supervision.HisthesiswonOleR.HolstiAwardinAmericanForeignPolicyandInternational
Relations.
ScottGrundei,Duke’14,“StateCapacityand3rdPartyCounterinsurgency”.IndependentStudy
andHonorsThesisSupervision.
HaleyPeters.Duke’14“HumanitarianInterventionasRebelStrategy:AnInternational
ExplanationofTactics”IndependentStudyandHonorsThesisSupervision.
DUKEDEPARTMENTALSERVICES
GraduateAffairsCommittee(Years2012-2013;2013-14)
SPCFieldCommittee(Years2012-2013;2013-14;2014-15)
REPFacultySearch(Fall2012/Spring2013)
GraduateAdmissions(Year2014)
SPCWorkshopConvener(Years2012-2013;2013-14;2014-2015)
OTHERACADEMICTRAINING,SKILLSandRELEVANTACTIVITIES
Methodstraining:
o Designing,Conducting,andAnalyzingFieldExperiments.ICPSR,UniversityofMichigan
(July2016).
o CausalInferenceWorkshop.NorthwesternUniversity&DukeUniversity(July2015).
o IntroductiontoSpatialRegressionAnalysis.ICPSR,UniversityofMichigan(June2006).
o EssexSummerSchoolinSocialScienceDataAnalysisandCollection(July-August2003).
UniversityofEssex,Colchester,UK.Courses:MathematicsforSocialScientists;
AdvancedTimeSeriesAnalysis;ProbitandLogit;MaximumLikelihoodEstimation.
StatisticalPackages:STATA,R,SPSS,Microfit,Eviews,Lisrel,Gauss,GeoDa,ArcGIS.
Languages:Catalan/Spanish:bilingual(native);French:fluent.
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Membership:AmericanPoliticalScienceAssociation,InternationalStudiesAssociation,
InternationalPoliticalScienceAssociation,MidwestPoliticalScienceAssociation,Association
fortheStudyofNationalities(MemberoftheAnnualConventionOrganizingCommittee),
CEACS-JuanMarchInstitute,InstitutBarcelonad’EstudisInternacionals(IBEI),Institutd’Anàlisi
Econòmica-CSIC.
ExternalReviewer:AmericanPoliticalScienceReview;AmericanJournalofPoliticalScience;
WorldPolitics;InternationalSecurity;InternationalStudiesQuarterly;JournalofConflict
Resolution;JournalofPeaceResearch;ComparativePoliticalStudies;PublicChoice;Journalof
Politics;EuropeanJournalofPoliticalResearch;BritishJournalofPoliticalScience;Businessand
Politics;PoliticalScienceQuarterly;NationalismandEthnicConflict;PSPoliticalScienceand
Politics;EthnicandRacialStudies;SecurityStudies;ConflictManagementandPeaceScience;
CivilWars;TerrorismandPoliticalViolence;InternationalAreaStudiesReview;International
Theory;AfricanSecurityReview;DynamicsofAsymmetricConflict;JournalofConflictology;
RevistaInternacionaldeSociología;RevistaEspañoladeCienciaPolitica;RevistaEspañolade
InvestigacionesSociológicas;ICIPWorkingPapers;SpanishMinistryofScienceResearchGrants
(since2011);NationalScienceFoundation;RoutledgeBooks(Military,Security&Strategic
StudiesSeries).
PROFESSIONALREFERENCES
StathisN.Kalyvas.ArnoldWolfersProfessorinPoliticalScience.YaleUniversity.124Prospect
Street.P.O.Box208301,NewHaven,CT06520.Tel:[email protected]
ElisabethJ.Wood.ProfessorofPoliticalScience.YaleUniversity.124ProspectStreet,P.O.Box
208301.NewHaven,CT06520.Tel:[email protected]
AndreasWimmer.LieberProfessorofSociologyandPoliticalPhilosophyatColumbia
University.KnoxHall,606West122ndStreet.NewYork,NY10027.Tel:
[email protected]
AlexanderB.Downes.AssociateProfessorofPoliticalScienceandInternationalAffairs.The
GeorgeWashingtonUniversity.Room605B,1957EStreet,N.W.,Washington,DC20052.Tel:
[email protected]
LBV,10May2016
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