"Refugee Returns and the Persistence of Commitment Problems Post Conflict." Revise and Resubmit at Security Studies.

"Sanctions and Public Goods Contribution in Divided Societies" (with Marc Alexander). Under Review. For more, see http://www.stanford.edu/~marcalex/FECBiH.html

AFGHANISTAN

• Member of research team working on a two-year World Bank-sponsored evaluation of local governing councils in rural Afghanistan. Spent summer of 2007 working on baseline survey comprised of 5,000 heads of household, 500 male and female leader focus groups across 500 rural Afghan communities (Work in Progress with Andrew Beath and Ruben Enikolopov).
• Spent summer of 2005 conducting 40 interview with leading Afghan experts, warlords, and mujahedin involved in the Afghan civil wars (Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Hazaras). Collected primary source materials such as war time declarations and peace agreements, fatwas, and memoirs (Dissertation Field Work).

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

• Spent spring and summer of 2006 working on a Russell Sage-funded public goods experiment that involved 240 students from three high schools in the divided city of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Work in Progress with Marc Alexander).
• Spent summer of 2004 and spring of 2005 conducting 60 interviews with leading war time politicians and military personnel involved in the Bosnian civil war (Bosniacs, Serbs, Croats). Collected primary source material such as articles from the local war-time press, declarations and cease-fire agreements as well as micro-level demographic data, including municipal level data on ethnic intermarriage (Dissertation Field Work).

IRAN

• Long-standing affiliation with the International Center for Persian Studies at University of Tehran.
• Took 140 pictures of Tehran's political propaganda murals that were featured in a $15,000 Harvard-sponsored photo exhibit (see http://www.wallsofmartyrdom.com). My images were subsequently catalogued and are now available as part of Harvard Library's Digital Image Collections. Organized academic symposium to accompany the exhibit that featured speakers on political and propaganda art in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories. Proceedings of the symposium are forthcoming in Persica, a peer reviewed journal on the Middle East, in June 1998. (For coverage of the exhibit see: Cate McQuaid, "The Art of Attraction," The Boston Globe, 31 May 2007 and Meredith Goldstein, "Another Brick in the Propaganda Wall," The Boston Globe, 18 May 2007.)
• Have been conducting interviews with members of Iran's reform and pro-democracy movements, including the students' movement and women's movement. (Wrote op-eds for the Washington Post).