
Bethany Lacina
Associate Professor of Political Science
- blacina@ur.rochester.edu
- Academic Website
- On leave
- 585-275-4291
Profile:
PhD, Stanford, 2011. International relations, comparative politics, migration, ethnic politics, civil conflict. Current research examines how governments manage threats to internal security by studying the history of separatist and language conflicts in India. She is also writing papers on migration and civil violence and cross-national correlates of civil war. Co-author of a dataset on battle deaths in state-based armed conflicts, housed at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo.
Courses taught:
- PSCI/INTR 252 Ethnic Politics
- PSCI/INTR 265 Civil War and the International System
- PSCI/INTR 269 Migration, Economic Change, and Conflict
- PSCI/INTR 276 The Politics of Insurgency
- PSCI 465 Civil War and the International System
- PSCI 480 Scope of Political Science
- PSCI 551 State Building and Conflict
- PSCI 553 Ethnic Politics
- PSCI 562 Empirical Research Practicum
- PSCI 566 International Relations Field Seminar I
- PSCI 570 Civil Order and Civil Violence
- PSCI 572 International Politics Field Seminar
- PSCI 572 International Relations Field Seminar II
- PSCI 576 Graduate Research Seminar