Gabriella Levy

Hello! I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. I am also an affiliate of the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology as well as the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences. I received my Ph.D. from Duke University’s Department of Political Science in June 2023. I was previously a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Brown University Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. I was also a 2022-23 USIP Peace Scholar Fellow. I can be contacted at glevy2@uw.edu.

My work has been published or is forthcoming at the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Peace Research, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution. It has been generously supported by funders and collaborators including the National Science Foundation, the World Bank, the International Organization for Migration, and the United States Institute for Peace.

In my research, I seek to understand the ways in which people interpret, evaluate, and respond to various forms of political violence in countries in or emerging from civil conflict or other forms of large-scale instability. Forms of political violence I study range from wartime civilian targeting to vigilante punishment to the extortion of migrants. I focus on Latin America, particularly Colombia, and my work lies at the intersection of international relations, comparative politics, and political psychology.