Macartan N. Humphreys

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Associate Professor
Affiliation	Columbia University, New York, New York
Email	mh2245@columbia.edu
Mailing Address	Department of Political Science Columbia University 812 International Affairs 420 West 118th Street, MC 3320 New York, New York 10027 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 212-854-7431 fax: 212-854-5670
Websites	http://www.columbia.edu/~mh2245/
Countries of Specialization	Chad, Ghana, Haiti, Indonesia, Liberia, Mali, São Tomé e Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Uganda.
Education	2003. Ph.D. (Government), Harvard University. 2000. MPhil (Economics), Oxford University.
Research Interests	He works on the political economy of development and formal political theory. Ongoing research focuses on civil wars, post-conflict development, ethnic politics, natural resource management, political authority and leadership, and democratic development with a current focus on the use of field experiments to study democratic decision-making in post-conflict and developing areas. He has conducted field research in Chad, Ghana, Haiti, Indonesia, Liberia, Mali, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Uganda, and elsewhere. He is also Director of the Research group "Institutions and Political Inequality" at the WZB in Berlin.
Teaching Interests	See: http://www.macartan.nyc/teaching/
Publications	2016. With Peter Van der Windt "Crowdseeding in eastern Congo: using cell phones to collect conflict events data in real time," Journal of conflict resolution. 60(4): 748-781. 2015. With James D. Feron and Jeremy M. Weinstein. "How does development assistance affect collective action capacity? : results from a field experiment in post-conflict Liberia," American political science review. 109(3): 450-469. 2009. With Jeremy M. Weinstein. "Field experiments and the political economy of development," Annual review of political science. 12 (2009): 367-78. 2008. "Existence of a multicameral core," Social choice and welfare. 31, 3 (October 2008): 503-20. 2008. "Coalitions," Annual review of political science. 11 (2008): 351-86. 2008. With J. Habyarimana et al. "Is ethnic conflict inevitable?: parting ways over nationalism and separatism," Foreign affairs. 87, 4 (2008): 138-50. 2008. With Jeremy M. Weinstein. "Who fights?: the determinants of participation in civil war," American journal of political science. 52, 2 (April 2008): 436-55.
Keywords	political economy ; development ; African politics ; ethnic politics ; democracy.