Erica Chenoweth is an associate professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies and associate senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO). Foreign Policy magazine has ranked her among the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013. Together with Maria J. Stephan of the U.S. State Department, Chenoweth won the 2013 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, which is presented annually in recognition of outstanding proposals for creating a more just and peaceful world order. Their book, Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, also won the 2012 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award from the American Political Science Association. Chenoweth has authored or edited three books, including Rethinking Violence: States and Non-State Actors in Conflict (MIT, 2010) with Adria Lawrence of Yale University; Why Civil Resistance Works (Columbia University Press, 2011) with Maria J. Stephan; and Political Violence (Sage, 2013). Her next book, Why Democracy Encourages Terrorism, explores the underlying reasons why terrorism is so common in democratic countries. She has published more than a dozen articles in scholarly journals and edited volumes, and her research has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, The Economist, The Boston Globe, Foreign Policy, The Christian Science Monitor, TEDxBoulder and elsewhere. She co-hosts the award-winning blog Political Violence @ a Glance, hosts the blog Rational Insurgent and blogs occasionally at The Monkey Cage. Before coming to DU Chenoweth taught at Wesleyan University, where she won the 2010 Carol A. Baker Memorial Prize for excellence in junior faculty research and teaching. She has also held visiting appointments at Harvard, Stanford, UC-Berkeley and the University of Maryland. Chenoweth holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in political science from the University of Colorado and a B.A. in political science and German from the University of Dayton.