Christian Davenport
Research Professor
BIO
Professor Davenport’s primary research interests include political conflict (e.g., human rights violations, genocide/politicide, torture, political surveillance, civil war and social movements), measurement, racism and popular culture.
- Christian Davenport. 2025. The Study of Political Conflict and Violence is Dead : Long Live the Study of Political Conflict and Violence! Resurrecting and Centering Government-Challenger Interaction. World Politics 77(1):247-258.
- Christian Davenport, Appel, Benjamin. 2022. The Death and Life of State Repression: Understanding Onset, Escalation, Termination, and Recurrence. Oxford Academic
- Davenport, Christian, Mokleiv Nygård, Håvard , Fjelde, Hanne , Armstrong, David . 2019. The Consequences of Contention: Understanding the Aftereffects of Political Conflict and Violence. Annual Review of Political Science 22(1):361-377.
- Zhukov, Yuri, Davenport, Christian, Kostyuk, Nadiya . 2019. Introducing xSub: A new portal for cross-national data on subnational violence. Journal of Peace Research 56(4):604-614.
- Davenport, Christian, Sullivan, Christopher M. 2018. Resistance is mobile: Dynamics of repression, challenger adaptation, and surveillance in US 'Red Squad' and black nationalist archives. Journal of Peace Research 55(2):175-189.
- Davenport, Christian, Crabtree, Charles , Chenoweth, Erica , Moss, Dana M, Earl, Jennifer , Ritter, Emily Hencken, Sullivan, Christopher . 2018. Contentious Politics in the Trump Era. PS: Political Science & Politics 51(1):17-25.
- Davenport, Christian, Melander, Erik , Regan, Patrick M. 2018. The Peace Continuum: What It Is and How to Study It. :241.
- Melander, E., Regan, P., Christian Davenport. 2018. The Peace Continuum. Oxford University Press
- Davenport, Christian, Sullivan, Christopher Michael. 2017. The Rebel Alliance Strikes Back: Understanding the Politics of Backlash Mobilization. Mobilization 22(1):39-56.
- Davenport, Christian, Loyle, Cyanne E. 2016. Transitional Injustice: Subverting Justice in Transition and Postconflict Societies. Journal of Human Rights 15(1):126-149.
