Tanisha Fazal (Ph.D., Stanford University, 2001) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Professor Fazal's current research projects focus on changing compliance with the laws of war, state failure, and the relationship between geography and conflict. Her book, State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation (Princeton University Press, 2007), won the 2008 Best Book Award of the American Political Science Association's Conflict Processes Section. She has been a fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. In 2002 she was awarded the Helen Dwight Reid Award of the American Political Science Association.

Recent Publications

Professor Fazal is on leave for the 2009-2010 academic year.