Louis Wasser

Louis Wasser held two appointments at Yale in 2019-20, Postdoctoral Associate at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, and he is currently a Research Affiliate in the latter. He received his PhD from Yale in December 2019, with his three-paper dissertation (“Anti-Regime and Separatist Opposition Strategies: Institutional and Extra-Institutional, Violent and Nonviolent”) focusing on the origins and consequences of variation in opposition strategies. Studying this issue required constructing two large-N datasets of opposition strategies: one for separatist movements and a second for anti-regime campaigns. The secessionist dataset is presented in a co-authored paper published in 2019 in the Journal of Conflict Resolution. Louis was a Minerva-USIP Peace and Security Scholar in 2018-19, and his work has also been supported financially by the MacMillan Center. Before graduate school, he worked as a Cairo-based journalist, and his writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and the Financial Times, among other places.