Toft Named World Politics Visiting Fellow for 2015–16

Monica Duffy Toft, a professor of government and public policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, has been named the 2015–16 World Politics visiting fellow. The fellowship is funded by World Politics and hosted by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University.

Toft, who is also a supernumerary fellow at Brasenose College at Oxford; a global scholar of the Peace Research Institute Oslo; and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Minorities at Risk Advisory Board, and the Political Instability Task Force, has published widely on civil wars, territory and nationalism, and demography and religion in global politics. Her most recent books include Securing the Peace (2011); Political Demography, coauthored with Jack Goldstone and Eric Kaufmann (2012); and God’s Century, coauthored with Daniel Philpott and Timothy Shah (2012).

For more information about the annual fellowship, visit the World Politics Web site at http://www.princeton.edu/piirs/worldpolitics-journal/visiting-fellows/.