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Tanisha Fazal is an American political scientist. She is Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where she joined the faculty in 2017. [1] She was previously a professor at the University of Notre Dame and Columbia University. [1] She is the author of the books State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation [2] and Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict. [1] [3] Some of her notable research findings include that violent state death has been exceedingly rare since the end of World War II, [4] states rarely declare war, [3] [5] and that improvements in battlefield medicine have led to dramatic reductions in battlefield deaths. [6] [7] [8] She was awarded a prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellowship for 2021-2023. [9]

In 2001, she was awarded her PhD in Political Science from Stanford University. [1] Her dissertation advisors included Scott Sagan and Stephen Krasner. [10] She has an undergraduate degree from Harvard University. She was influenced by Louise Richardson. [3] [10] She was a Postdoc at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Cambridge, MA.

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