CV

Contact

dgrassephd[at]gmail[dot]com

Appointments

• Visting Instructor
  • M.S. in Computational Analysis & Public Policy
  • University of Chicago
  • November 2023
• Political Economy of Security Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  • Center for International Studies
  • University of Southern California
  • August 2022-August 2023

Education

• Ph.D in Political Science, Emory University, 2022
  • Dissertation Committee: Jennifer Gandhi, Renard Sexton, Natalia Bueno, Adam Glynn
  • Dissertation Award: Laney Graduate School Outstanding Scholarly Research Award in the Social Sciences (2022)
• BA in Political Science, Summa Cum Laude, University of Kentucky, 2016
  • Honors Thesis Winner: Crum Award for best Political Science research paper in any field, University of Kentucky, 2016

Research Interests

Political economy of conflict and development, historical legacies of violence, causal inference

Publications

Opportunistic Repression: Civilian Targeting by the State in Response to COVID-19

Donald Grasse, Melissa Pavlik, Hilary Matfess, Travis B. Curtice (2021). "Opportunistic Repression: Civilian Targeting by the State in Response to COVID-19." International Security (2021) 46 (2): 130–165.

Oil Crops and Social Conflict: Evidence from Indonesia

Grasse, Donald. (2022). "Oil Crops and Social Conflict: Evidence from Indonesia"; Journal of Conflict Resolution. Volume: 66 Issue: 7-8, page(s): 1422-1448.

Job Market Paper - State Terror and Long-run Development: The Persistence of the Khmer Rouge

Grasse, Donald (2022). "Developmental Legacies of Draconian Dictatorship: Evidence from the Khmer Rouge." Working Paper.

Courting Civilians During Conflict: Evidence from Taliban Judges in Afghanistan

Donald Grasse, Renard Sexton, Austin Wright "Courting Civilians During Conflict: Evidence from Taliban Judges in Afghanistan"

Working Papers

• “Fixing the Past: The Effects of Human Rights Trials on Political Attitudes in Argentina.” with Pearce Edwards and Jennifer Gandhi (Revise and Resubmit, British Journal of Political Science)

• “Colonial Origins of Insecurity: Evidence from Brazil”

• “Is Transitional Justice Blind? The Link between Culpability and Prosecution in Argentina’s Human Rights Trials” with Pearce Edwards and Jennifer Gandhi

Works in Progress

*Climate Change, Property Rights, and Conflict: Evidence from Nigeria

• “What drives support for peace in Afghanistan? Three wave panel survey.” with Renard Sexton, Christoph Zuercher and Manu Singh

Grants, Awards, and Fellowships

• American Political Science Association Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG), (2021), $14,886
• Southeast Asia Research Group (SEAREG) Fellow (2021)

Invited Talks and Conference Presentations

• Virtual Workshop on Authoritarian Regimes (VWAR), 2021
• Southeast Asia Research Group (SEAREG), 2021
• Midwestern Political Science Association, 2019, 2021
• American Political Science Association, 2021

Teaching Experience

*Database Management - Fall 2023

• Co-instructor: Introduction to Comparative Politics (Political Science 120) - Fall 2020, 2021

• Teaching Assistant:
  • Principles of Political Science (Political Science 111) - Spring 2021
  • Research Design and Methods (Political Science 208) - Spring 2020
• Tutor
  • Design & Analysis of Experiments (Political Science 585, Graduate) - Spring, 2022
• Grader
  • The Linear Model (Political Science 509, Graduate)- Spring 2019

Professional Activities

• Referee: British Journal of Political Science (2024); American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Conflict Management and Peace Science (2023); Journal of Politcs, (2022); International Interactions, (2021)
• Discussant: American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 2022