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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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