Rebecca is a second year MPhil student studying Politics, Comparative Government. She is presently conducting quantitative research on the role of formal education in supporting and engaging in political violence in authoritarian states. Before beginning her studies at Oxford, she completed a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Research Interests

• Political Participation

• Political Violence

• Authoritarianism

I'm currently in the second year of the MPhil programme in Comparative Government, where my research centres on civil resistance movements and their transformation. Specifically, my thesis delves into the trajectories of resistance movements in Syria prior to the onset of the civil war.

Research interests:

• Conceptual approaches to nonviolence

• Civil and armed resistance

• multi-party conflict research

I am a second-year MPhil candidate in Politics (Comparative Government) interested in the intersection of political economy and judicial politics. My thesis research applies political economy and business politics perspectives to questions about international trade and investment law, governments’ approaches to it, and subsequent impacts on domestic populations.