Tessa Devereaux

Tessa is an Assistant Professor in Politics at SOAS, University of London. She received her PhD in Political Science from Cornell University in 2024, followed by a year as Herbert Nicholas Junior Research Fellow at New College, University of Oxford. Her research interests include civil war, gender politics, rebel governance and state-building, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa.

Specifically, she examines how rebel groups reshape local gender relations as a strategy of local control during conflict. She is also working on a series of projects on the legacies of insurgency and human rights after war. Her research has been supported by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar award and a USIP-Minerva Peace and Security Scholarship.