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Education:

• PhD, Political Science, Emory University, 2020
• MA, Political Science, University of Arkansas, 2012
• BA, International Studies, Missouri Southern State University, 2009

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

• Policing
• Conflict
• Political Economy of Crime
• Authoritarian Politics
• Research Methods

Bio:

Travis Curtice is an Assistant Professor of Politics at 91ÖÆƬ³§ and a faculty affiliate at 91ÖÆƬ³§'s Center for Public Policy. He served on the executive board for 's , as Communications Chair from 2022 to 2024.

From 2020-2021, he was a Dickey Center U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security Postdoctoral Fellow and Niehaus Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College. He was a 2019-2020 Peace Scholar Predoctoral Fellow at the and a 2017-2018 Predoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Developing Nations and the . He completed his PhD in Political Science at Emory University in 2020, winning the 2019-2020 Pursuit of Excellence in Political Science Award.

Professor Curtice’s research is motivated by the following questions. How does state repression work on the ground? What kinds of dilemmas emerge for governments, agents of repression, and citizens who interact with coercive institutions? What are the larger forces influencing the use of state repression? In answering these questions, his work examines the use of police to repress citizens in authoritarian regimes and unconsolidated democracies and the effects of repression on the provision of law and order. He uses diverse methods including survey experiments, field research, qualitative interviews, and cross-national comparisons.

Professor Curtice is currently working on a book manuscript entitled The Repression Dilemma: The Politics of Policing in Multi-ethnic Societies. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in European Journal of International Relations, International Interactions, International Security, The Journal of Peace Research, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Conflict Management and Peace Science, The Journal of Global Security Studies, Social Science and Medicine, Political Violence at a Glance, and The Washington Post. His research has received funding from the Folke Bernadotte Academy, the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Carter Center, the Institute for Developing Nations, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation PhD Interventions Project.

Selected Publications:

• Curtice, Travis, and Charles Crabtree. "Democratic Erosion, Partisanship, and Election Observers: Evidence from a Survey Experiment." International Interactions (2024): 1-26.
• Curtice, Travis, and Eric Reinhardt. "The politics of human rights trade sanctions: evidence from the African Growth and Opportunity Act." European Journal of International Relations 30.1 (2024): 227-251.
• Curtice, Travis. (2023). Co-ethnic bias and policing in an electoral authoritarian regime: Experimental evidence from Uganda. Journal of Peace Research, 60(3), 395–409.
• Blair, Robert A., Travis Curtice, David Dow and Guy Grossman. 2022. “Public trust, policing, and the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from an electoral authoritarian regime.” Social Science Medicine 305:115045.
• Curtice, Travis B. “How Repression Affects Public Perceptions of Police: Evidence from Uganda.“ Journal of Conflict Resolution, Nov. 2021, Vol. 65(10) 1680–1708.
• “Opportunistic Repression: Patterns of civilian targeting by the state in response to COVID-19” with Don Grasse, Melissa Pavlik, and Hilary Matfess. International Security, Oct. 2021, Vol. 46(2) 130-165.
• Curtice, Travis B. “Rebels and the Regime: The Politics of Civilian Victimization.” Journal of Global Security Studies, June 2021, Vol. 6(2) ogaa025.
• Curtice, Travis B., and Brandon Behlendorf. “Street-Level Repression: Protest, Policing, and Dissent in Uganda.” Journal of Conflict Resolution, Jan. 2021, Vol. 65(1) pp. 166–194.