Connor Kopchick is a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland’s Department of Government and Politics. His research centers on transnational repression, diaspora mobilization, and transnational social movement’s appeals and their impact on public opinion.

Connor’s dissertation examines transnational repression, or the repression of diasporas by predatory states across international borders. While most scholarship on transnational repression asks when and how predatory states pursue opponents abroad, Connor’s dissertation asks under what circumstances do host states impose costs for, or facilitate, transnational repression. To this end, he created the Host Response to transnational Repression Dataset (HRRD), a novel dataset of host state responses to transnational repression.

Connor’s research had been published in the Journal of Peace Research and well as the Washington Post’s “Monkey Cage” and presented at APSA, MPSA, Junior Scholars in Security Studies (JSISE), the Atlanta Symposium on Political Science (ASOPS), and the Violence, Instability, and Peace (VIP) workshop.

Connor holds an MA from the University of Maryland and a BA from Davidson College. You can access his CV here.