Hannah Baron

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Inter-American Policy Research

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Research

Political violence, Criminal violence, Political behavior, Democratic erosion, Research ethics

Degrees

  • PhD, Brown University, Political Science
  • M.A., Brown University, Political Science, 2018
  • B.A. Harvard, Romance Languages and Literature, 2014

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Fellow, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego 2021-23
  • Peace Scholar Fellow, United States Institute of Peace 2021-22
  • Emerging Scholar, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation 2021-22

Distinctions

  • Predoctoral Fellow, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UC San Diego, 2021-23
  • Peace Scholar Fellow, United States Institute of Peace, 2021-22
  • Emerging Scholar Award, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, 2021-22
  • Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies Research Seed Grant, 2020
  • Graduate Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, 2020-21
  • International Travel Fund, Brown University, 2020 and 2017

Languages

  • Spanish
  • Portuguese

Overseas Experience

  • Mexico
  • Argentina
  • Dominican Republic
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Peru

Selected Publications

  • 2024. An Events-Based Approach to Understanding Democratic Erosion (with Robert A. Blair, Jessica Gottlieb, & Laura Paler). PS: Political Science & Politics, FirstView: 1-8.
  • 2022. The Criminal Justice System in Mexico (with Matthew Ingram). 2022. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press.
  • 2021. From Principles to Practice: Methods for Increasing the Transparency of Research Ethics in Violent Contexts (with Lauren Young). 2021. Political Science Research and Methods, FirstView: 1-8.
  • 2019. Teaching Trump: Why Comparative Politics Makes Students More Optimistic About US Democracy (with Robert A. Blair and Shelby Grossman). 2019. PS: Political Science & Politics 52(2): 347-52.