Jason Lyall
James Wright Chair in Transnational Studies
Associate Professor of Government
Director, Political Violence FieldLab
Quantitative Social Science (QSS) Affiliate
Davidson Institute for Global Security Faculty Affiliate
Jason Lyall is the inaugural James Wright Chair of Transnational Studies and Associate Professor in the Government department. He also directs the Political Violence FieldLab at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding. Broadly speaking, his research examines the drivers and effects of political violence in war. He has three current research projects: (1) understanding how inequalities (ethnic, class, race) affect the battlefield performance of armies and rebels; (2) improving humanitarian assistance in fragile and violent settings; and (3) building new approaches and tools for causal inference with very fine-grained spatial and temporal data. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the lessons learned from the Afghan War (2001-21).
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Department(s)
Government
Center(s)
The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding
Education
- B.A. Simon Fraser University
- Ph.D. Cornell University
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