Dr. Justine Davis

Biography

Justine M. Davis is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and has served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan and as a UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Diego. Justine earned her master’s degree from the American University of Paris and La Sorbonne-Paris. Her research interests focus on electoral violence, civil society, and the challenges of democratization efforts in post-conflict settings and weakly institutionalized democracies. Her dissertation, "Wartime Experiences of Civic Leaders: Legacies of Civil War, Rebel Control, and Democratization in Post-Conflict Africa," won the Western Political Science Association dissertation award in 2020. Additionally, she received the Ralph Bunche Graduate Student Paper Award from the African Politics Conference Group in 2018. Justine's work has been published or is forthcoming in prominent journals such as African Affairs, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, Party Politics, PS: Political Science & Politics, and the South African Geographical Journal.

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