Luke Condra is an Associate Professor of International Affairs in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.  Condra was an Empirical Studies of Conflict Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, San Diego. He studies the politics of state-building in conflict-ridden and emerging democracies. His research on elections, public goods provision, and insurgent violence is published in the American Economic Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics, among other outlets (list of papers).  He teaches courses on international relations, ethnic politics, political violence, and quantitative research methods. He received a Ph.D. from Stanford University and A.B. from Duke University, both in political science.