Joan Barceló
Welcome! I am an assistant professor of political science at New York University Abu Dhabi. My research interests are political violence, intergroup conflict, and postwar political dynamics.
My work has appeared or will soon appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Human Behavior, American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Science Research & Methods, International Studies Quarterly, and Research & Politics, 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).
Selected Recent Works
2024. New Estimates of U.S. Civil War Mortality From Full-Census Records (with Jeffrey L. Jensen, Leonid Peisakhin, and Haoyu Zhai). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (48) e2414919121.
— Media Coverage: New York Times2024. The Effect of Anger Appeals on the Support for Secessionist Parties. Journal of Politics 2024 86(1): 79–96.
2024. The Political Responsiveness to Conflict Victims: Evidence from a Countrywide Audit Experiment in Colombia (with Mauricio Vela Baron). American Political Science Review 118 (1): 21–37.
2024. The Autocracy Bias: Evaluating Democratic Citizens’ Perception of Human Rights Violations in Policy Proposals Abroad. (with Greg Sheen). International Studies Quarterly 68(4): sqae135.