James Fearon

James D. Fearon is Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor of Humanities and Sciences and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Stanford University.  He received a PhD in Political Science and an MA in Economic Theory from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992.  He taught at the University of Chicago from 1991 to 1998, moving in 1998 to the Political Science Department at Stanford University.  Dr. Fearon was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences in 2002, and received in 1999 the International Studies Association’s Karl Deutsch Award for “the scholar under the age of forty judged to have made the most significant contribution to the study of International Relations and Peace Research.”

Dr. Fearon's main research interests are:

• Civil war and ethnic violence
• Self-enforcing democratic institutions
• International bargaining and conflict