Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham

Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham is a Professor at the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland and is affiliated with the Center for International Development and Conflict Management and the Peace Research Institute Oslo. Her primary research interests include self-determination, nonstate actor governance, civil war, and non-violent resistance. Her work has been published by Oxford University Press, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Research, International Studies Quarterly and Perspective on Politics. Her 2014 book on self-determination politics won Book of the Year from the Conflict Research Society. She received the International Studies Association International Security Section Emerging Scholar Award.