Sarah Zukerman Daly is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at MIT and a member of MIT’s Security Studies Program. She is also currently a pre-doctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). Her research and teaching interests include civil war, security studies, ethnic politics, and transitional justice with a regional focus on Latin America and the former Soviet Union. Sarah holds a BA (2003) with Distinction in International Relations from Stanford University and a MS (2004) with Distinction in Development Studies from the London School of Economics.
Sarah’s dissertation analyzes variation in demilitarized groups' post-war trajectories and ex-combatants’ reintegration success in Colombia. Her other current projects seek to explain sub-national variation in insurgency onset in Colombia; state strategies towards ethnic minorities in the former Soviet Union; repression and rebellion in El Salvador and Honduras; and the role of emotions in transitional justice.
Sarah’s research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, National Science Foundation, Fulbright U.S. Student Program, U.S. Institute of Peace, Smith Richardson Foundation, and Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. She has conducted field research in Colombia, Ecuador, and Chile and has spent time at the Council on Foreign Relations, World Bank, the International Peace Research Institute of Oslo, and the Organizational of America States’ Peace Mission in Colombia.
