Fotini Christia is the Ford International Professor of the Social Sciences and the Director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology.  Her research has focused on issues of conflict and cooperation in the Muslim world. She is the author of “Alliance Formation in Civil War” (Cambridge University Press, 2012), which was awarded the Luebbert Award for Best Book in Comparative Politics, the Lepgold Prize for Best Book in International Relations, and a Distinguished Book Award from the International Studies Association. She is co-editor with Graeme Blair and Jeremy Weinstein of “Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing: Experiments on Building Trust” (Cambridge University Press, 2024).  Her research has also appeared in Science, Nature Human Behavior, Review of Economic Studies, NeurIPs, Communications Medicine, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, American Political Science Review, Annual Review of Political Science, Journal of Politics and Journal of Conflict Resolution among other journals.