Research

My dissertation, titled “Ethno-Religious Conflict and the Duration of Peace: Autonomy, Discrimination, and Territory“, addresses the ways in which religion and ethnicity impact the likelihood of conflict recurrence, utilizing repeated measurement survival models. I posit that religion and ethnicity are reinforcing cleavages, and through mechanisms of territorial dispute, autonomy-seeking, and as a response to discrimination, groups will seek to reignite conflict. Each of these three mechanisms is rooted in the specific ways in which ethnic and religious groups relate to the state. In addition, my dissertation attempts to reconfigure the relationship between theoretical conceptualizations of religion and ethnicity and the ways in which we measure them. I aim to provide new measurements for religion and ethnicity in a conflict framework, abandoning the dichotomous measurement of compatibility by asking if the groups are defined by organizational or issue differences in a religious or ethnic frame. This measurement allows me to theorize more directly on the role that religion and ethnicity, as both identities and ideologies, play on conflict recurrence.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Strickland, J., & Tarr, N. (2023). Diversity for Access? Legislative Diversity, Identity Group Mobilization, and Lobbying. Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, 1-22. doi:10.1017/rep.2023.12

Under Review

“The Multiple Meanings of Islamic Law and What Muslims Think of it in the European Union”
(with Carolyn Warner)

Works In Progress

“Unpacking the Role of Religion in Asymmetric Conflict: A Cross-National Study”
(with Carolyn Warner and David Siroky)

“Indivisibility and Conflict Recurrence: Sacred Sites and Peace Agreements”