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Michael Weaver is a  Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago.  Prior to this he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Political Science at The University of British Columbia. His research examines the causes and consequences of ethnic and racial violence, focussing on the how political parties and the media enable or discourage violence. In other work, he also examines how war transforms democratic politics. He holds a Ph.D. from Yale University.