Joan Barceló

Welcome! I am an assistant professor of political science at New York University - Abu Dhabi. My research interests are political violence, terrorism, ethnic and nationalist conflict, and postwar political dynamics.

My work has appeared or will soon appear in the American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Nature Human Behavior, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among other journals.

You can find my Google Scholar profile here and my CV here.

Prior to starting at NYUAD, I obtained a PhD from Washington University in St. Louis' Political Science Department in 2019. Before completing my PhD, I interned at the United Nations – ESCAP in Bangkok in 2013 and stayed as visiting graduate scholar at NYU Shanghai (2014), the Nuffield College at the University of Oxford (2017), and the University of Mannheim (2018).