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Sky Kunkel

Sky Kunkel

Graduate Student // Political Science

Curriculum vitae


Office and Contact

Room: BRNG 2299

Email: kunkel3@purdue.edu

Phone: (765) 494-4161


Fields of Study

International Relations and Methods

 

Research Area

My research broadly focuses on the intersection of security and non-state actors. My security research often focuses on United Nations (UN) peacekeeping and evaluating how, when, and where peacekeepers effectively protect civilians. For example, my dissertation, The Local Effects of UN Peacekeeping, examines peacekeepers' effects on saving civilian lives and preventing violence against civilians with advanced quantitative methods at the most granular level used in the peacekeeping effectiveness literature.

 

Teaching Experience

POL 605: Advanced Causal Inference, TA
POL 501: Political Science Methodology, TA
POL 430: UN Peacekeeping, Independent Instructor
POL 237: Modern Weapons and International Relations, TA, Independent Instructor (Online)
POL-130: Introduction to International Relations, TA

 

Awards

Peace Scholar Fellowship, USIP, 2023-24
Kruhe Fellowship, Purdue University, 2023-24
Travel Grant, Maplemeth, 2023
Travel Grant, International Studies Association Midwest, 2023
Travel Award, APSA Conflict Processes Section, 2023
Travel Grant, American Political Science Association, 2022/23
Promise Research/Travel Award, Purdue College of Liberal Arts, 2022/23
Travel Grant, Purdue Department of Political Science, 2022/23
Travel Grant, International Studies Association, 2022
Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Political Science Department, 2021-21

 

 


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