Christian Davenport's research interests include political conflict (from genocide to domestic spying), measurement, and racism. Between 1999 and 2008, he was on the faculty of the University of Maryland, where he directed the Minorities at Risk Data Project. He continues to direct two projects: the Radical Information Project and Stop Our States. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from Binghamton University in 1992.
Among Davenport's publications are State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Media Bias, Perspective and State Repression: The Black Panther Party (forthcoming 2009, Cambridge University Press). He also is the editor of two books: Repression and Mobilization with Carol Mueller and Hank Johnston (University of Minnesota Press, 2004), and Paths to State Repression: Human Rights Violations and Contentious Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000). His articles have appeared 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.
Davenport has held visiting appointments at the Transitional Justice Institute at the University of Ulster, Ireland; the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Studies at Stanford University; and the Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway. He is working on various projects involving state-dissident interactions in the United States, Rwanda, India, and Northern Ireland.
