Joshua Fawcett Weiner is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for International Conflict – Analysis and Management (CICAM) at Radboud University’s Department of Political Science. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in January 2024. Previously, he was a Civil War Paths Fellow at the University of York’s Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War.

Josh’s work on political violence and conflict processes bridges international relations and comparative politics. His substantive focus is on the political economy of armed group adaptation and the impact of armed group leaders on organizational behavior. Much of his research is driven by two related questions: 1) how do armed groups determine the mix of funding strategies they use during conflict; and 2) how do armed group leaders, because of their past experiences or through networks, shape conflict dynamics. Geographically, he concentrates on the Global South, specifically the Middle East and Africa. He employs a variety of methods in his own and coauthored work including quasi-experiments, time series analysis, elite surveys, survey experiments, archival data, and natural language processing.

Please see his website (https://joshfw.github.io) for the most current information.

Frederic H. Soward Memorial Fellowship, University of British Columbia (2023)

External Methods Funding Award – IQMR, University of British Columbia (2021)

External Methods Funding Award – ICPSR, University of British Columbia (2020)

Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral, SSHRC (2019-2022)

Faculty of Arts Graduate Award, University of British Columbia (2019)

Four-Year Doctoral Fellowship, University of British Columbia (2017-2021)

Political Science Department Entrance Award, University of British Columbia (2017)