Assistant Professor
Contact Information
pmarti5@gmu.edu
Fairfax Campus, Aquia Building, Room 307
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
MSN: 3F4
Biography
Philip A. Martin is an assistant professor of international security in the Schar School of Policy and Government at AV.
His research specializes in political violence and civil wars, peacebuilding, and African politics. His work has been published in International Security, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Journal of Peace Research, African Affairs, Studies in Comparative International Development, and other outlets.
In 2020, Martin was co-awarded (with Giulia Piccolino and Jeremy Speight) the Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Award for research on armed groups and peacebuilding in ôٱ ’IǾ. His research has also received support from the Fulbright Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
He completed his PhD in Political Science in 2019 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was an affiliate of the security studies program.
Curriculum Vitae
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Lastupdated:January 2022
RESEARCHINTERESTS
Civilwarsandpolitical violence;peacebuildingandpostwarreconstruction;democracy;Africanpolitics.
APPOINTMENTS
2022
VisitingProfessor(winter/spring)
NormanPatersonSchoolofInternationalAffairs,CarletonUniversity
2019
AssistantProfessorofInternationalSecurity
ScharSchoolofPolicyandGovernment,GeorgeMasonUniversity
EDUCATION
Ph.D, Political Science, 2019 MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology
Fields:InternationalRelationsandComparativePolitics
MA,InternationalAffairs, 2012
NormanPatersonSchoolofInternationalAffairs, CarletonUniversity
BA(Honors),PoliticalScience, 2010
University of Guelph
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Articles
ԲܰԳArmies: MilitaryObedienceandStateFormation afterRebelվٴǰ.” InternationalSecurity, Vol. 46, No. 3 (2022), pp. 87-127.
“(with Jeremy Speight and Giulia Piccolino). Comparative Political Studies(2022), doi: 10.1177/00104140211047409.
“”(withAndrewCesareMiller), ComparativePolitics(2022),doi:10.5129/001041522X16420169882963.
“WdoStrongPartiesThrowtheBumsOut?EvidencefromSouthAfricanLocalGovernment Elections” (with Evan Lieberman and Nina McMurry). Studies in Comparative International Development(July 2021), doi: 10.1007/s12116-021-09338-5.
“E-AuthorityafterCivilWar:TheoryandEvidencefromôٱ’IǾ”(withJeremySpeight and Giulia Piccolino), Comparative Politics,Vol. 53, No. 2 (2021), pp. 209-232.
“CdzԻ-dzܲԾٲTiesafterCivil².” JournalofPeaceResearch,Vol.58,No.4(2021),pp. 778-793.
ٱܰٲSectorReformandCivil-MilitaryRelationsinPostwarôٱ’IǾ,” AfricanAffairs,Vol. 117, No. 468 (2018), pp. 522-33.
“MԾԲcodesinAfrica:emergenceofa‘fdzܰٳ’generation?” (withHanyBesada)CambridgeReviewof International Affairs,Vol. 28, No. 2 (2015), pp. 263-282.
“CdzԲTogether:Power-SharingandtheDurabilityofNegotiatedʱٳٱԳٲ,” CivilWars,Vol. 15, No. 3 (Fall 2013), pp. 332-58.
ԳٱԾԲforPeace?Dilemmas ofLiberalInternationalismandDemocraticReconstructionin Afghanistan,” Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Spring 2011), pp. 1-24.
Work-in-Progress
EmbeddedCommanders:Insurgent Governanceand⾱ٲIntegrationinôٱ’IǾand Beyond.Book manuscript.
Editor-ReviewedEssaysandReports
“WItMattersifTrumpRejects theElectionResult,” PoliticalViolenceataGlance, November11 2020.
ٴdzܳٳAfrica'sHealthyDemocracy:WhyZuma'sResignationisaGood,”ForeignAffairs, February 20, 2018 (with Dan De Kadt and Evan Lieberman).
“Le conséquence d'une gouvernance rebelle: enquête au nord de la ôٱ d'Ivoire,” Bulletin FrancoPaix,Vol.3,No.1(January2018),pp.1-7(withGiuliaPiccolinoandJeremySpeight).
“PDZپԲ’perspectivesonvoiceandaccountability:Evidence fromasurveyofSouthAfricanlocal councillors,” Research Report, Making All Voices Count,December 2017(with Evan Lieberman and Nina McMurry).
“Wܾɱ’sMilitaryAbandonedѳܲ,” ForeignAffairs,November15,2017. “RebelNetworks'DeepRootsCauseConcernsforôٱd'Ivoire Transition,"TheGlobal
Observatory,InternationalPeaceInstitute,October12,2017 (withGiuliaPiccolinoandJeremySpeight). “W ܾɱ’s Military Sticks with ѳܲ,” Foreign Affairs,September 12, 2016.
“Harefourreasons thatSouthAfrica’s ANClostground inthisDzԳٳ’sپDzԲ,”TheMonkey Cage,
August12,2016(withDanDeKadt,EvanLieberman,andNinaMcMurry).
“Regulating Extraction in the Global South: Towards a Framework for Accountability” (with Hany BesadaandFranklin Lisk),ResearchReport fortheUnitedNationsHighLevelPanel onthePost-2015 Development Agenda, 2013, pp. 1-34.
“MԾԲCodesinAfrica: Opportunities,Challengesand䲹Բ岹’sʴDzپDz”(withHanyBesada). In
Canada-AfricaRelations:LookingBack,Looking Ahead(ѳҾ-ϳܱ’sPress,2013).
AWARDSANDHONORS
Fellowships& Grants
2021
Distinguished ScholarAward,Harry FrankGuggenheimFoundation($35K)
2019
Post-DoctoralFellowship,FacultyofArts&Sciences,UniversityofToronto(declined)
2018
Pre-DoctoralFellowship,InternationalSecurityProgram,BelferCenterforScienceand International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
2018
ResearchGrant, UnitedStatesAgency forInternationalDevelopment(USAID),PoliticalInclusion and Accountability Program, ôٱ ’IǾ ($30K)
2017
MITGOV/LABDissertationSeedGrant($4.5K)
2017
SummerResearchGrant,Center forInternationalStudies,MIT($3.5K)
2016
SummerResearchGrant,Center forInternationalStudies,MIT($3.5K)
2016
SummerFellowship,BridgingtheGapProject($3K)
2013—2017
DoctoralFellowship,SocialSciencesand HumanitiesResearchCouncilofCanada($80K)
2013
FulbrightScholarship,FulbrightCanada Foundation($15K)
2011
OntarioGraduateScholarship,GovernmentofOntario($15K)
2010
Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Master’s Level, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ($17.5K)
2007—2009
Dean’s Scholarship,UniversityofGuelph($1K)
OtherAcademicHonors
2015
Finalist,TrudeauScholarship.PierreElliotTrudeau Foundation
2012
SenateMedal,CarletonUniversity
2012
GraduateStudentOpenAccess Award,CarletonUniversityOfficeofVice-President(Research) and Graduate Student Association
2011
First Prize, Best Paper Award Competition, 7thAnnual Conference for Graduate Students in PoliticalScience,InternationalRelationsandPublicPolicy,TheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem
2011
ThirdPrize, ConferenceofDefense dzپDz’s14Annual GraduateStudentSymposium,the Royal Military College, Kingston, Canada
2010
Joseph F. Skinner Medal, University of Guelph (highest overall achievement among graduating students in the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences)
2010
UniversityofGuelphHonor Awardforoutstandingstudent-athleteperformance
2010
Nominee,WinegardMedal,UniversityofGuelph(highestoverallachievementamong graduating students)
2007
GeorgeGrant Award,UniversityofGuelph(highestacademicaverageamong undergraduate political science majors)
2006—2009
OUAAcademic All-StarAwardforacademicexcellenceasavarsity athlete,Universityof Guelph
TEACHINGEXPERIENCE
ScharSchoolofPolicyandGovernment,George Mason University
Civil War and Stabilization in Africa (POGO 750)
Introduction to Comparative Politics (GOVT 133)
Political Violence and Civil Wars (GOVT 444)
FieldSeminarinComparativePolitics(GOVT530)
MIT
DemocracyandDevelopment:PerspectivesfromContemporaryAfrica (MITx)
Engineering Democratic Development in Africa
MathCamp I
QuantitativeResearch MethodsI:Regression
CarletonUniversity
History of Political Thought
IntroductiontoAfrican Politics
Law, State and Citizens
Law,State,and Constitutions
FIELDWORKEXPERIENCE
ôٱ’IǾ.May-June2015,September-December2016,June-December2017.
Zimbabwe. July-August 2016.
South Africa. June-July 2016.
Tajikistan.March-August2013.
Ukraine.October-November2012.
Tanzania.August-October2012.
Botswana.April-June2009.
PRESENTATIONS(Selected)
“Ex-RebelCommandersandStateFormationafterCivil ²”
NormanPatersonSchoolofInternationalAffairs, CarletonUniversity,January 2021
“TPoliticalLegacies ofRebel Rule:Evidence fromôٱ’IǾ” (withJeremySpeight andGiulia Piccolino)
InternationalStudies Association,AnnualConvention,April2021
AfricanStudiesAssociation,Annual Convention,BostonMA,November 2019
“CdzԻ-dzܲԾٲTiesafterCivil²”
AmericanPoliticalScienceAssociation,AnnualConference,WashingtonDC,August2019
“E-CommandersandPostwarStatebuilding:SubnationalEvidencefromôٱ’IǾ”
WorkingGroupinAfrican PoliticalEconomy(WGAPE),HarvardUniversity,November2018
“TPoliticsof Rebel AuthorityinPostwar States:Theory andEvidence fromôٱ’IǾ”(with Jeremy Speight and Giulia Piccolino)
CanadianAssociationofAfricanStudies, AnnualConference,Kingston, Ontario,May2018 International Studies Association, Annual Convention, San Francisco, April 2018
“TDarkSideofRebel Governance:WartimeRuleandCommander-CommunityLinkages in Northern ôٱ ’IǾ”
AmericanPoliticalScienceAssociation,DissertationworkshoponMilitariesandDemocratization, Boston, August 2018.
PoliticalViolenceWorkshop,Harvard University,March2018.
PartiesHoldPoliticiansAccountable(andforWhat?):EvidencefromSouthAfricanLocal Elections”(with Evan Lieberman and Nina McMurry)
AmericanPoliticalScienceAssociation,Annual Conference,SanFrancisco,August2017 South African Councillor Panel Study Workshop, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 2017
“TWartimeOrigins ofCivil-MilitaryRelations inInsurgent-RuledAfrica: Evidencefrom Zimbabwe and ôٱ ’IǾ”
MIT-Harvard-Yale-TuftsGraduate StudentConferenceonPoliticalViolence, YaleUniversity,April 2017
InternationalStudies Association,AnnualConvention,Baltimore,February2017
ConferenceontheLegacies ofArmedConflict inSouthernAfricaandComparativePerspectives, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, July 2016.
esIrresponsibleRhetoric CauseGroupstoRebel?Evidence fromtheUSStateDepartment, 1991-2008”
MIT-Harvard-YaleGraduate StudentConferenceonPoliticalViolence, HarvardUniversity,April 2016. “Unsafe Havens: Re-Examining Aid and Peace Duration after Civil Wars” (with Nina McMurry) International Studies Association, Annual Convention, Baltimore, February 2017
MidwesternPolitical ScienceAssociation,AnnualConference,Chicago, April2016.
MIT-Harvard-YaleGraduate StudentConferenceonPoliticalViolence. CenterforInternationalStudies, MIT, Cambridge, March 2015.
ٳٰٱofRebellioninPost-ColonialAfrica”
InternationalStudies Association,AnnualConvention,Atlanta,March2016.
MIT-Harvard-YaleGraduate StudentConferenceonPoliticalViolence. CenterforInternationalStudies, MIT, Cambridge, March 2015.
MIT Strategic Use of Force Working Group. Center for International Studies, MIT, Cambridge, February 2015.
ԲܰԳ,PoliticalOrder, andSNCWars:Elite-ProximityintheCentral AfricanRepublic”
Olympia Summer Academy, Conflict and Political Violence Graduate Student Workshop,July22 2014.
“CdzԲTogether:Power-SharingandtheDurabilityofNegotiatedPeaceSettlements”
22ndAnnual AssociationofEthnicity andNationalism(ASEN)Conference–“NپDzԲ,Ethnicity and Boundaries,” London School of Economics, London UK. March 2012.
21stAnnualConflictResolutionSymposium–Conflict:Communication,CultureandChange.SaintPaul University, Ottawa. February 3, 2012.
ٳԲPowerafterDeadlyConflict: DoInclusiveInstitutionsWorkaftertheFightingStops?”
The7thAnnualConferenceforGraduateStudents inPoliticalScience, InternationalRelationsandPublic Policy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. December 2011.
ConferenceofDefensedzپDz’s14thAnnualGraduate StudentConference,RoyalMilitaryCollege, Kingston ON. October 2011.
ԳٱԾԲforPeace? Dilemma’sofLiberal InternationalismandDemocraticReconstructionin ڲԾٲ”
StrategicStudies StudentDzԲǰپܳ’s13thAnnualStudentConference:ٳٰٱ,Security,and Defense: Expanding the Discourse.” University of Calgary. February 2011.
6thAnnualPoliticalScience GraduateSymposium:ٱܰٲ andConflict:Evolving Theoryand Practice.” Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie University. March 2011.
GraduatePoliticalScienceSociety Conference:“21stCentury Politics:insecurity,uncertainty,and novelty.” Carleton University. March 2011.
ConferenceofDefensedzپDz’s13thAnnualGraduate StudentConference,RoyalMilitaryCollege, Kingston ON. October 2010.
OTHERPROFESSIONALEXPERIENCE
2018
Consultant,Exam ProblemDevelopment
MITxMicroMastersprograminStatisticsand DataScience
14.310x:DataAnalysisinSocialScience–AssessingYour Knowledge
2015—2019
ResearchAnalyst
FreedomHouse(ôٱ’IǾ,CentralAfricanRepublic)
2013
MineAction Officer
NorwegianʱDZ’sAid,Tajikistan
2013
ResearchAssociate
UnitedNationsDevelopmentProgram(UNDP)
Post-2015MillenniumDevelopmentGoals High-LevelPanel
2011—2013
ResearchAssistant
North-South Institute, Ottawa, ON GovernanceofNatural ResourcesProgram
2012
ElectionObserver(Short Term)
MissionCanada,UkraineParliamentaryElections
2011
JuniorPolicyOfficer
DepartmentofForeignAffairsandInternationalTrade, OttawaON Tariffs and Goods Market Access Division
OTHERACTIVITIES/MEMBERSHIPS
2021
AwardCommittee,InternationalStudiesAssociation,Global SouthTravelGrant
2020
AwardCommittee,African PoliticsConferenceGroup (APCG),BestGraduateStudentPaper
2019
Participant,ExecutiveAnalyticExchangeontheRepublicofôٱ’IǾ,U.S.State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), September 5 2019
2016
NewErainAmericanForeignPolicyBridgingtheGap Conference
2015
Co-creator, MITPoliticalScience GraduateStudentCouncil
2014
OlympiaSummerAcademy,“CDzԴڱandPoliticalվDZԳ”cycle
2012
MAstudentrepresentative,NPSIADirectorSearch Committee
Professional memberships: International Studies Association, American Political Science Association, AfricanStudies Association,CanadianAfrican StudiesAssociation,Working GroupinAfrican Political Economy
Peer reviewer for American Political Science Review, World Politics, Journal of Politics, Journal of PeaceResearch,InternationalSecurity,ConflictManagementandPeaceScience, TheCanadianJournal of African Studies, Civil Wars.
LANGUAGES
English(native);French
SOFTWAREPROFICIENCY
R,QGIS, Latex