PROFILE

Political Science, Stanford University (2020)

Christiana Parreira is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations and Political Science at the Graduate Institute. Her research focuses on the role of local political institutions and actors in governance, looking primarily at post-conflict contexts in the Middle East and North Africa. Her forthcoming book project examines how local governments and elections facilitated predatory state-building practices in Lebanon. In other research, she examines determinants of governance quality and distributive outcomes in Lebanon, Iraq, and elsewhere in the Global South. She received her PhD from Stanford University in 2020. Before joining the Graduate Institute, she served as a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and a pre-doctoral associate at the Harvard Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative. 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 

• Cammett, Melani, Christiana Parreira, Dominika Kruszewska-Eduardo, and Sami Atallah (2022). “Commitment to the ‘National’ in Post-Conflict Countries: Public and Private Security Provision in Lebanon.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 66(7-8): 1235-1262.
• Cammett, Melani, Dominika Kruszewska-Eduardo, Christiana Parreira, and Sami Atallah (2021). “Coethnicity Beyond Clientelism: Insights from an Experimental Study of Political Behavior in Lebanon.” Politics and Religion 15(2): 417-438.
• Parreira, Christiana (2021). “Power Politics: Armed Non-State Actors and the Capture of Public Electricity in Post-Invasion Baghdad.” Journal of Peace Research 58(4): 749-762.