CONTRIBUTOR:

Katherine Sawyer

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Graduate Student

DEPARTMENT:

Government and Politics

INSTITUTION:

University of Maryland, College Park

BIOGRAPHY:

Katherine Sawyer is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research interests include: civil conflict and rebellion, bargaining theory, biopsychological factors of political violence, and spatial/computational models of conflict. She holds a master’s degree in Quantitative Methods from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and an undergraduate degree in violin performance and economics from Baylor University.