Stathis Kalyvas

Stathis N. Kalyvas, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1993, is Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and Director of the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence. He is the author of The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2006) which received the Woodrow Wilson prize for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs published in 2006, and of The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe (Cornell University Press, 1996) which received the J. David Greenstone Award for the best book in the field of politics and history. He has received the Gregory Luebbert Award for the best article in comparative politics, a Jean Monnet Fellowship, and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the United States Peace Institute, and the Folke Bernadotte Academy. He is currently researching the microdynamics of civil war, with a focus on warfare, recruitment, and violence, using disaggregated data from Colombia and Vietnam, among others. Personal Home Page.