Aila Matanock
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Aila M. Matanock is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research addresses post-conflict elections, how international and other outside actors engage in fragile states, and, most recently, comparative policing. She has conducted fieldwork in Colombia, Central America, Melanesia, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere, funded by AusAid, the U.S. Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, and others. Her book from Cambridge University Press, Electing Peace: From Civil Conflict to Political Participation, won the 2018 Levine Memorial Book Prize. Her work has also been published by the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Daedalus, Foreign Affairs, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, and elsewhere. She is the 2024 winner of the International Studies Association’s Karl Deutsch, which is awarded to a scholar judged to have made the most significant contribution to the study of International Relations and Peace Research through their publications. She has held fellowships at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and UCSD’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. She previously worked at the RAND Corporation and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and her A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard University.
