Tanisha Fazal is an American political scientist. She is Professor of Political Science at the

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

, where she joined the faculty in 2017. She was previously a professor at the University of Notre Dame and Columbia University. She is the author of the books ''State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation'' and ''Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict''. Some of her notable research findings include that violent state death has been exceedingly rare since the end of World War II, states rarely

declare war A declaration of war is a formal act by which one state announces existing or impending war activity against another. The declaration is a performative speech act (or the signing of a document) by an authorized party of a national government, in ...

, and that improvements in

battlefield medicine Battlefield medicine, also called field surgery and later combat casualty care, is the treatment of wounded combatants and non-combatants in or near an area of combat. Civilian medicine has been greatly advanced by procedures that were first ...

have led to dramatic reductions in battlefield deaths. She was awarded a prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellowship for 2021-2023. In 2001, she was awarded her PhD in Political Science from Stanford University. Her dissertation advisors included

Scott Sagan Scott Douglas Sagan (born 1955) is the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and co-director of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). He is known for his research on nuclear weap ...

and Stephen Krasner. She has an undergraduate degree from Harvard University. She was influenced by

Louise Richardson Dame Louise Mary Richardson (born 8 June 1958 ) is an Irish political scientist whose specialist field is the study of terrorism. In January 2016 she became the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, having formerly served as the Principa ...

. She was a Postdoc at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Cambridge, MA.

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