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Sally Sharif, PhD

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Welcome! I am the Simons Foundation Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University and a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of British Columbia. 

 

Previously, I was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Notre Dame. I have a PhD in political science from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (2021). 


My work lies at the intersection of comparative politics, international relations, and political methodology. I explore the ways that governments, international organizations, and third-party states manage various forms of political violence, ranging from repression, cooption, and containment to peacebuilding and conflict resolution strategies. I lived most of my life under an authoritarian regime and, in my recent work, have explained the complex ways through which repression incites or subdues political violence. ​​

In my published work, I have explained civil war onset and duration, post-conflict consolidation of state power, and the impact of international involvement on civil war recurrence. My work has appeared in International PeacekeepingPolitical Violence and TerrorismTerritory, Politics, Governance; Defence and Peace EconomicsStudies in Conflict and TerrorismHuman Rights Quarterly; and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Project for Return. My policy analysis has been published by The Washington Post, the Peace Accords Matrix Policy Brief Series, and Political Violence at a Glance. See my Google Scholar page here.

 

I speak seven languages and have done field research in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Outside academia, I am a triathlete and am deeply concerned by environmental degradation, which is apparent first and foremost in our mountains and lakes. 

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