Joan Barceló

Welcome! I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at New York University Abu Dhabi and a Global Network Associate Professor of Politics at New York University. My research examines political violence, state repression, intergroup conflict, and postwar political dynamics. I study how violence and institutional interventions shape civic engagement, political behavior, social trust, and reconciliation in divided societies.

I approach these questions using tools from applied causal inference, including field and survey experiments, natural experiments, and quasi-experimental designs, choosing the design that best fits the question and setting. I also work with observational data, meta-analysis, and historical measurement when they offer the most credible way to answer a particular question.

My work has appeared or is forthcoming in leading political science journals, including American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, and Comparative Political Studies, as well as in interdisciplinary outlets such as PNAS, Nature Human Behaviour, and PNAS Nexus.