Biography
Michele Leiby is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the College of 黑料老司机. Her research focuses on human rights and political violence, gender and conflict processes, and human rights advocacy. Methodologically, her work incorporates large-N data collection and statistical analysis, interview and archival research, survey experiments, and extensive fieldwork in Latin America and the United States. Her work has been published in English and Spanish, appearing in American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, Politics and Society, Revista Memoria as well as in multiple edited volumes. At the College, she teaches: Intro to Comparative Politics, Human Rights, Sex and War, Latin American Politics, and Research Methods & Design.
Selected Publications & Presentations
- 淗ow Combining Framing Strategies Affects Human Rights Micromobilization� with Kyla McEntire and Matthew Krain. Research and Politics April-June: 1-11. 2017
- 淪exual Violence against Political Prisoners: an Examination of Empirical Evidence in El Salvador and Peru� in Ackerman, Alissa and Richard Furman, eds. Sexual Crimes: Transnational Problems and Global Perspectives NY: Columbia University Press. 2015 Translation: 淰iolencia Sexual contra Detenidos: Un Examen de la Evidencia Emp铆rica en el Salvador y el Per煤� Revista Memoria: Revista sobre Cultura, Democracia, y Derechos Humanos. 20:1-13. 2016
- 淗ow to Ask People for Change: Examining Peoples� Willingness to Donate to Human Rights Campaigns� with Kyla McEntire and Matthew Krain, in Pruce, Joel, ed. The Social Practice of Human Rights NY: Palgrave MacMillan. 2015
- 淗uman Rights Organizations as Agents of Change: an Experimental Examination of Framing and Micromobilization� with Kyla McEntire and Matthew Krain. American Political Science Review 109(3): 407-426. 2015
- 淭he Promise and Peril of Primary Documents: Documenting Wartime Sexual Violence in El Salvador and Peru� in Bergsmo, Morten; Butensch酶n Skre, Alf and Elisabeth J. Wood, eds. Understanding and Proving International Sex Crimes Beijing: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher. 2012
- 淲artime Sexual Violence in Guatemala and Peru� International Studies Quarterly 53:445-468. 2009
- 淒igging in the Archives: The Promise and Perils of Primary Documents� Politics and Society 37:75-99. 2009 Translation (under new title): 淒ocumentando la Violencia Sexual en los Conflictos Armados: el Caso Peruano� Revista Memoria: Revista sobre Cultura, Democracia, y Derechos Humanos. 14:1-18. 2014
- 淭he Role of the Health Care Industry in New Mexico State Politics: A Connect the Dots Report� Common Cause, Albuquerque, NM 2007
- 淭he Legacy of Wartime Violence on Intimate-Partner AbuasAbusee: Micro-level Evidence from Peru, 1980-2009� with Gudrun 脴stby and Ragnhild Nord氓s. forthcoming International Studies Quarterly.
- 淯ncovering Men檚 Narratives of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence� in Zalewski, Marysia; Drumond, Paula; Pr眉gl, Elisabeth; and Maria Stern, eds. Sexual Violence against Men and Boys in Global Politics NY: Routledge.