Reed M. Wood is Professor of Politics and International Relations in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. He received his Ph.D. (2010) in Political Science from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Professor Wood has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in journals such as International Organization, the Journal of Politics, and International Studies Quarterly and is author of Female Fighters: Why Rebel Groups Recruit Women for War (Columbia University Press). 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 women’s descriptive representation on conflict resolution and post-conflict peace, and the gendered implications of political violence and social unrest for political participation and representation.
He is also co-creator of the Women in Armed Rebellion Dataset (WARD) and the Sub-National Analysis of Repression Project (SNARP) and is a co-manager of the Political Terror Scale (PTS).