Miguel Rueda and Brenton Kenkel

Miguel Rueda is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Emory University. His research interests include electoral manipulation, civil conflict, electoral systems, and political methodology. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, Political Analysis, and Political Science Research and Methods. Prior to joining the Emory faculty, he was a visiting research scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics of Princeton University (2013-2014). He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Rochester in 2014. He also holds an M.Sc. in Economics and a B.Sc. in Economics and Mathematics from La Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.

Brenton Kenkel received his PhD in political science from the University of Rochester in 2014. His research focuses on the political economy of conflict, encompassing violent conflict both between and within states. In his research, he uses formal models to think clearly about the strategic dilemmas that arise in war, diplomacy, and state formation. He teaches classes on the causes of war, the role of war in state development, crisis diplomacy, formal models of international politics, and statistical methods.