Nicholas Barnes is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs after receiving his PhD in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was born and raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he also attended Coe College. He then received a Master’s in Science from University College Dublin in Nationalism and Ethno-Communal Conflict and spent a year in Israel as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. His research has been funded by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council’s Drugs, Security and Democracy in Latin America and the International Dissertation Research Fellowships as well as the Department of Education through the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad.

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