Dr. Lee J. M. Seymour is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science. He studied political science at Northwestern University, Sciences Po Paris, Dalhousie University and the University of British Columbia. In 2008-2009, Dr. Seymour was a post-doctoral fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, and from 2006-2008, he was a doctoral researcher at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, in Berlin. His dissertation, Pathways to Secession: The Institutional Effects of Separatist Conflict, compares the outcomes of armed separatist conflicts, with particular attention to conflicts in the Horn of Africa, the Balkans, and the Caucasus. With support from the United States Institute of Peace, he has conducted field work in Southern Sudan, Somaliland, Ethiopia, Kosovo, Russia, Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. His broader research interests include the politics of self-determination, the role of legitimacy in world politics, and civil wars and insurgency. In 2009-2010, Dr. Seymour is teaching courses on Insurgency and Political Order, International Security and Intrastate Conflict, and American Foreign Policy.

CV & Publications Seymour (2009)