Jared Edgerton

Research

My research combines computational social science with substantive political questions, with particular attention to conflict processes, strategic behavior, and information dynamics.

Methodological Innovation

Developing robust workflows for machine learning and causal analysis in political science, with an emphasis on transparent validation and reproducibility.

Conflict & Security Applications

Applying these methods to international security and political violence to improve both explanatory and predictive performance.

Collaborative Infrastructure

Building shared data and code practices that make interdisciplinary teamwork more efficient and replicable.

Refereed Articles

  1. "Bound by Blood and Bloodshed: Sibling Ties and Participation in Genocidal Violence." With Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, Jack Wippell, and Evelyn Gertz. Forthcoming at Criminology.
  2. "Hierarchy misalignment and war: Network effects of relational and material power." With Dagmar Heintze, Mael van Beek, and Haoming Xiong. Conditionally accepted at Political Science Research and Methods.
  3. "Mapping Rebellion: Networks of civilian and state violence during civil conflicts." With Gary Uzonyi. Conditionally accepted at Political Science Research and Methods.
  4. "Unpacking the gendered dimensions of political violence: Network centrality of women fighters during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda." 2025. American Journal of Political Science. With Elizabeth Brannon, Dagmar Heintze, and Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira.
  5. "Hierarchy and war." 2025. American Journal of Political Science. With Mael van Beek, Bear Braumoeller, and the MESO Research Lab.
  6. "Meet the press: Gendered conversational norms in televised political discussion." 2025. The Journal of Politics. With Daniel Naftel, Skyler Cranmer, and the NISS Lab.
  7. "Cooperative communities in the international system: Networked cooperation of similar states." 2024. The Journal of Politics.
  8. "The impact of radio on violent conflict: New evidence from Rwanda." 2024. American Sociological Review. With Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira and Trey Billings.
    Co-winner of the Best Paper Award by the American Sociological Association's Section on Sociology of Human Rights
  9. "Social origins of conflict: Islamic State foreign fighter mobilization." 2024. Journal of Conflict Resolution.
  10. "Analyzing participants in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi." 2023. Journal of Peace Research. With Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira and Laura C. Frizzell.
  11. "The effect of exogenous shocks on team networks." 2022. Network Science. With Skyler J. Cranmer and Victor Finomore.
  12. "Disrupting terrorist recruitment: Network knockouts of Islamic State recruiters." 2022. Journal of Complex Networks 10. With Selena Wang.
  13. "Suicide bomber mobilization and kin and peer ties." 2022. Social Networks 70(1), 36–54.
  14. "Elusive consensus: Polarization in elite communication on the COVID-19 pandemic." 2020. Science Advances 6. With Jon Green, Skyler Cranmer, and the NISS Lab.
  15. "Crater detection from commercial satellite imagery to identify unexploded ordnance in Cambodian agricultural land." 2020. PLOS One 15. With Erin Lin, Rongjun Qin, and Daren Kong.
  16. "Classifying prisoner returns: A research note." 2016. Justice Research and Policy. With Gerald G. Gaes, Jeremy Luallen, and William Rhodes.
  17. "A quasi-experimental evaluation of the impact of public assistance on prisoner recidivism." 2016. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. With Jeremy Luallen and Dierdre Rabideau.

Submitted for Review

  1. "Determinants of Case Outcomes in Rwanda's Post-Genocide." With Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira and Anneliese Ward. Invited to revise and resubmit to Criminology.
  2. "Human Rights Consolidation or Fragmentation? A Network Analysis of Resolution Sponsorship in the UN Human Rights Council." With Gino Pauselli and Cecilia Cavero-Sánchez. Invited to revise and resubmit to Network Science.
  3. "Foreign Policy Elite Messaging: Elite Framing during Conflict Crises." With Jing Lou, Chandler L'Hommedieu, and Skyler Cranmer.

Developing Projects

  1. "Conflict cycles: Group membership, policy diffusion, polarization, and conflict in the international system." Ongoing book project.
  2. "Lawfare, copyright, and state suppression of dissident information." With Pengfei Zhang, Natalia Lamberova, and Anton Sobelev, University of Texas at Dallas.
  3. "Foreign lobbying and political content in podcast media." With Jon Green of Duke University.
  4. "Foreign policy is no laughing matter: Comedy vs. mainstream discourse."
  5. "Strategy War: A Bayesian model of selective state targeting."
  6. "Forecasting systemic shifts with Graph Neural Networks."
  7. "Understanding labor trafficking in Brazil." With Stanford University Human Trafficking Data Lab.
  8. "Evaluating policing biases using synthetic text." With Stanford University Human Trafficking Data Lab.
  9. "Temporal community detection for evolving networks."
  10. "Guns in the news: Mass shootings and media framing." With Jack Wippell of Ohio State University and Cara Nix of Black Wealth Data Center.

Grants