Kaitlyn Chriswell is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami. She received her PhD in Government from Harvard University and was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) Center at Brown University. Kaitlyn studies political violence and democracy with a particular emphasis on citizen-state relations. Her book project examines how the local presence of criminal groups affects whether and how citizens interact with the state through a mixed-methods study of municipalities across Mexico. Other ongoing research examines the political and social effects of experiences of victimization and the longer-term effects of citizen organizing. Her research has been published in World Politics and Comparative Political Studies.
