Christian Davenport

Christian Davenport was born and raised in Manhattan, New York but has traveled extensively around the world. His work concerns political conflict and violence - especially state repression/human rights violation/genocide, social movements and racism. These appear in academic books and articles, short stories, poems and board games. Davenport is currently the Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding and Political Science at the University of Michigan as well as Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Davenport has published widely throughout journals in Political Science and Sociology and has published 8 books with several on the way. In addition to winning numerous awards from the National Science Foundation and Carnegie Foundation, he has been awarded Residential Fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University as well as the Russell Sage Foundation, a William J. Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Award and was recently elected to the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences. For more see: www.christiandavenport.com.