Dr. Amanda Murdie will be visiting the Political Science Department on Wednesday, February 5th, 2019. She will give a presentation to the faculty and graduate students in ten Hoor 346 at 12 pm on “Civil-Military Relations and Human Rights”. Lunch will be provided.

Dr. Amanda Murdie is the Thomas P. and M. Jean Lauth Public Affairs Professor and Professor of International Affairs at the University of Georgia. She is the editor-in-chief of International Studies Review and the co-editor of the University of Georgia Press Studies in Security and International Affairs book series. Dr. Murdie studies International Relations, specializing in the behavior of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) and their interactions with states, local populations, and intergovernmental organizations. She is also interested in human rights/security, dissent, development, quantitative methodologies, formal modeling, and conflict more generally. Her latest book “Help or Harm: The Human Security Effect of International NGOs” appeared with Stanford University Press.