Christian Davenport is a Professor of Peace Studies and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame as well as Director of the Radical Information Project (RIP). Primary research interests include political conflict (such as human rights violations, genocide/politicide, torture, political surveillance/covert repressive action, civil war and social movements), measurement, and racism. Professor Davenport is the author of numerous articles appearing in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Political Research Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, and the Monthly Review (among others). He is the recipient of numerous grants (such as six from the National Science Foundation) and awards (such as the Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar Award and the Residential Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences). Professor Davenport is the author of two books: State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace and Media Bias and State Repression: The Black Panther Party, both published with Cambridge University Press. He is also the editor of two books: Repression and Mobilization: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go From Here? (University of Minnesota Press, 2004), and Paths to State Repression: Human Rights Violations and Contentious Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).