Santa Fe Institute

Bio

Elisabeth Jean Wood is Professor of Political Science at Yale University and Professor of the Santa Fe Institute. She is currently writing a book on variation in sexual violence during war. She is the author of Forging Democracy from Below: Insurgent Transitions in South Africa and El Salvador (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador (Cambridge University Press, 2003). Among her recent articles are “Sexual Violence during War: Toward an Understanding of Variation,” (in Order, Conflict, and Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2008), “Armed groups and sexual violence: when is wartime rape rare?” (Politics and Society, 2009), and “The Social Processes of Civil War”, (Annual Review of Political Science, 2008).She serves on the editorial boards of Politics and Society, The American Political Science Review, and the Contentious Politics series of Cambridge University Press. At Yale Elisabeth teachers courses on comparative politics, political violence, social movements, and qualitative research methods.

She was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.