Ana Arjona, PhD (Yale University), is an Associate Professor at the Political Science Department at Northwestern University. She been a Fellow at the Earth Institute at Columbia University and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on the dynamics and legacies of organized violence. She is the author, among others, of the award-winning book Rebelocracy: Social Order in Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2016).