I'm a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Politics & International Relations, University of York, and a research fellow at the Michael Nicholson Centre for Conflict and Cooperation, University of Essex. From January to July 2024, I'm based at the Department of Survey Data Curation at GESIS as a guest researcher.

My research focuses on the dynamics of contentious politics. In particular, I study the causes and consequences of violent and nonviolent mobilisation, security force behaviour, civil-military relations, and UN peacekeeping. My work has been awarded the NEPS Medal and the PSS(I) Moore Prize, and is published in leading journals such PLOS ONE, Comparative Politics, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and the Journal of Peace Research. I take a special interest in teaching empirical conflict studies, causal inference, and machine learning, and am a recipient of the Essex Excellence in Education teaching award. I developed two R packages that I maintain on CRAN.

I hold a PhD from the University of Essex, and a diploma from the Norwegian Research School on Peace and Conflict. I served as a research associate and visiting scholar at Princeton University, the University of Mannheim, and the Peace Research Institute Oslo.

Following my PhD, I was appointed senior research associate at the University of the German Federal Armed Forces, acting as scientific advisor in support of an IBM-led project developing a crisis early warning system for Germany’s Ministry of Defence. After that, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns project at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

To get in touch, drop me an email at christoph.dworschak[at]york.ac.uk