Scholar of Contemporary Political Violence

Andrew is an assistant professor in political science at the University of California’s newest campus in Merced. He is an international relations scholar focused on the causes and consequences of political violence around the world with a particular focus on forcible displacement and the security consequences of a changing global climate.

His more recent work explores the causes and consequences of major international news media reporting patterns on international affairs, including on bringing awareness to “shadow topics” — issues that involve significant cost (human, environmental, etc.) or benefit but that have tended to receive minimal attention amongst major news media (e.g. Eritrea’s refugee crisis).

He is also the founding director of the Political Violence Lab, an academic research lab focused on producing and disseminating policy relevant research. In this capacity, he has engaged in the lab’s work approximately 243 undergraduate and graduate students and postgraduates from eighteen universities.

Andrew is also an affiliate of Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation; an associate of the Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) project; and an affiliate of the University of California, Merced’s Center for Analytic Political Engagement (CAPE).

He was previously a postdoctoral scholar in Stanford University's Political Science department; a lecturer in international relations at Dartmouth College and the Niehaus Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security in the College's John Sloan Dickey Center For International Understanding; and a predoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He completed his doctoral studies at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs.