Welcome to my webpage. Since January 2010, I am a researcher at the Institute for Economic Analysis-CSIC [Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research], located at the UAB Campus in Bellaterra, Barcelona.
I am affiliated professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, and I teach at Pompeu Fabra University, in the departments of Political Science and Economics.
I got my Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University (May 2010), with University Distinction. I am Doctora Miembro of the Center for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences of the Juan March Institute. I am a alumni student associate of the program on Order, Conflict and Violence at Yale.
My dissertation focused on the determinants of different types of civil wars, with a particular interest in so-called conventional civil wars, and on their microdynamics of conflict.I have elaborated a theory of the determinants of violence and tested the implications with local level data on violence during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), which I have collected from primary and secondary historical sources.I have used large-n statistical analyses, small-n comparisons of localities, archival and qualitiative evidence from interviews to survivors of the civil war.I am currently working on a book manuscript using additional data from other conventional civil wars.
At a secondary level, in my dissertation I have explored a set of hypotheses on the consequences of violence on postwar political identities and I have tested them with a variety of empirical methods: a monographic survey on historical memory, a set of semi-structured interviews; and large-n electoral data at the municipal level.
I have also undertaken other research on political behavior, nationalism, sociology of the family, and international political economy.
My work has been published or is forthcoming at American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Business and Politics, among others.
Mailing address: Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica, CSIC, Campus UAB - 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain)
Last update: August 11th, 2010