Rudra M. Guha Biswas was chosen as a University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Dissertation Fellow for 2026-27. The University of California Dissertation Fellowship is IGCC’s oldest program designed to bolster the capabilities of the next generation of engaged scholars and peacemakers. Since its inception in 1984, the competitive Fellowship has provided...
Abstract Why does conflict termination occur during some rebel leaders’ tenures but not others? Under similar structural and organizational conditions, can rebel leadership help explain this variation? Although recent research has increasingly examined the role of rebel leaders, explanations of civil war duration have more often emphasized conflict-level and organizational conditions. This study builds on...
Abstract As foreign interlopers collided onto China amidst the Century of Humiliation in the late nineteenth century, the centuries-old settlements of the Pearl River Delta underwent a self-empowerment campaign carried out by its own inhabitants. As the inhabitants of what would formally become “Jiangmen” set out to become the Chinese diaspora in trans-Pacific migration, they...
Jieun Lee is a PhD candidate in Political Science at UC Riverside whose research focuses on American public opinion. She was awarded the Graduate Division Dissertation Program Award for 2026–27, providing two quarters of support to focus exclusively on research.