Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Mara Revkin is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at Yale University, where her research focuses on governance and lawmaking by armed groups. Her dissertation examines variation in civilian cooperation with and resistance against rebel governance through multi-method data collection on the case of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria. Her work draws upon analysis of archival documents, social media data, surveys, and interviews conducted during extensive fieldwork in Turkey and Iraq. She is currently based in Istanbul as a Yale Fox Fellow and USIP Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar. Mara holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was an Islamic Law & Civilization Research Fellow in 2016-2017. She has served as the lead researcher on Iraq and Syria for two projects on (1) child recruitment by armed groups and (2) post-IS transitional justice implemented by United Nations University, the research wing of the UN system.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Conflict Resolution
Islamic Law
State Formation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iraq
Syria
Specialties
Syria
Iraq
Rebel Governance
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
French (advanced)
Education
JD
| 2016
| Law
| Yale Law School
BA
| 2009
| Political Science & Arabic
| Swarthmore College
Abstracts
To Stay or to Leave? Explaining Migration Decisions in Islamic State-Controlled Mosul
