Assistant Professor @IllinoisPolSci. PhD @penn, former @NiehausCenter. Human rights, LGBT politics, international law, IOs. Misionero. ๐ฆ๐ท๐ณ๏ธโ๐
New paper with Beth Simmons in International Organization: "From Barriers to Abuse: Border Hardening and Torture." A signaling story with big implications for human rights research. ๐งต
Very excited about our paper with @rjschoner published in @The_PEIO: when people filing human rights complaints can choose between international bodies, where do they go, and why? We look at petitions to the Inter-American System and the UN Human Rights Committee, 1980โ2020 ๐งต
New (open access) paper in @BJPolS with Florencia Montal and @majourzua: "Critical Ties: How NGOs Become Reliable Information Suppliers to International Organizations." When do IOs publicly criticize states? It depends on who they can credibly listen to. ๐งต
New publication @nws_journal, with Jared Edgerton and @ceciliacaveros: is the international human rights regime consolidating or fragmenting? Our answer is that it depends on the issue, and we propose a way to measure where the divisions are. ๐งต
Our new paper, "Trust or Fortify? Border Walls in International Relations," co-authored with Mike Kenwick and Beth Simmons, is out today in @ISQ_Jrnl! We ask: why do states choose to go it alone and build border walls? ๐งต๐ academic.oup.com/isq/article/70โฆ