Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen, Jr., Professor for the Study of Human Understanding, Professor of Political Science, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies
About
Christian Davenport is the Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen Professor of the Study of Human Understanding, Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies/Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo and Elected Fellow at the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences (AAAS). Primary research interests include political contention (i.e., genocide, human rights violation, protest, everyday resistance), measurement/conceptualization and popular culture. He is the author of seven books: The Death and Life of State Repression (2022, Oxford University Press) being the most recent. Six are on the way: 1) Relative Contention: Toward a New Conception and Measure of Political Conflict and Violence (with Havard Nygard, David Armstrong and Hanne Fjelde), 2) The Consequences of Contention (with Havard Nygard, David Armstrong and Hanne Fjelde), 3) Ending Police Violence – A Global Analysis (with Megan Burt), 4) Forced Together: How Police Violence Unifies Americans and Forges a Way to Change it (with David Armstrong), 5) The Talks: A .Edu-kit to Facilitate Conversations About the Police, Children, Violence and Thriving as well as 6) The United Racisms of America: Understanding Anti-black Human Rights Violations Across Time and Space (with David Armstrong). Prof. Davenport is the author of 50+ peer-reviewed articles appearing in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the American Sociological Review, the Annual Review of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Peace Research, Mobilization, Conflict Management and Peace Science and the Monthly Review (among others). He is the recipient of numerous grants (e.g., 10 from the National Science Foundation, a Toppforsk from the Research Council Norway) and awards (e.g., the Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar Award and a Residential Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences – Stanford University). For more information, please refer to the following webpage: www.christiandavenport.com.
