Reed Wood

Reed M. Wood is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. He received an MA (2006) and PhD (2010) in Political Science from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His research investigates the complex interconnections between gender and political violence and its implications for politics and society. His recent research has focused on the participation of women in rebel and terrorist organizations and their impact on the dynamics and duration of armed conflict, the influence of gender diversity in political leadership on conflict resolution and post-conflict peace, and the effects of political violence and social unrest on women's descriptive representation in national legislatures.

Professor Wood is currently involved in several ongoing data collection projects, including the Women in Armed Rebellion Dataset (WARD), the Sub-National Analysis of Repression Project (SNARP), and the Political Terror Scale (PTS).