Austin Knuppe, Ph.D.

Field: Politics
Areas of Focus: Foreign Policy, International Politics, Middle East Politics, War

Expertise

• US foreign policy
• War abs peace
• Middle East politics
• Iraq
• Afghanistan

Bio

Austin Knuppe is an assistant professor in the department of political science at Utah State University. Prior to USU, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. He received his Ph.D. in political science from The Ohio State University in 2019. His research interests include post-conflict state building, Middle East politics, and the study of religion in international politics.

In his current book project, he investigates the conditions under which civilians survive civil war. Specifically, he focuses on Iraqis survived the occupation of their communities by Islamic State insurgents between 2013 and 2018.