RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Research Interests

Climate-Conflict Nexus; Climate Laws and Litigation; Climate Refugees; Migration and Asylum Policy; Refugee Studies; Civil War & Peace Agreements; Positive Peace; Urban Unrest; Research Methodology; Quasi-Experimental Analysis; Spatial Data

 

Research Experience

Research Assistant, Loyola University Chicago                                            2018-Present

  • Dr. Eric Hansen, Liberalism in Political Science Literature
  • Dr. Kara Ross Camarena, Migration Pressure and Aid
  • Dr. Patrick Boyle, Developments in the African Union
  • Dr. Sarah Maxey, Anti-War Rhetoric
  • Dr. Tofigh Maboudi, Climate Laws and Litigation
  • Dr. Molly Melin, Economic Integration of ex-combatants for peace 

Special Interest Groups Data Analyst, Project VoteSmart                          Summer 2017

  • Web-scraping and cleaning of special interest groups data in R

Research Intern, The Scottish Parliament                                                     Summer 2016

Served under: Alex Rowley, Member of the Scottish Parliament

  • Devolution of powers, taxation, and public well-being

 

Ad Hoc Projects

  • Wrote Stata scripts for correlation vs. causation and quasi-experimental projects
  • Created quizzes in Qualtrics for complex grading schemes
  • Used Python console to import, polygonise, spatially merge, and export data in QGis
  • Used Excel VBA and Stata to merge large climate law and litigation data
  • Used R to scrape and code text from peace agreement documents

 

Papers, Presentations, and Publications 

 

Book Chapters in Review 

D’Amico, E. & Maboudi, T. (Forthcoming). Vulnerability, Climate Laws, and Adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa. In Arce, M. Arce, C. Dupont, T. Eisenstadt, L. Feoli, & T. Maboudi (Eds.), Ideas, Interests, Institutions, and Nation-state Climate Politics: Mitigators, Adapters, and Mitigator-Adapters. Oxford University Press.

 

Working Journal Articles

D’Amico, E. Disentangling Migration, Market Price Shocks, and Urban Unrest: A natural experiment in Bangladesh.

Melin, M., Sosa, S., & D’Amico., E. Economic Reincorporation in Civil War Peace Treaties & Peace Outcomes.

D’Amico, E. & Maboudi, T. Environmental Laws, Constitutionalism, and Climate Change Litigation.

 

Conference Presentations

Midwest Political Science Association – 81st Annual MPSA Conference, 2023

Climate Migration, Economic Drivers, and Urban Unrest: A quasi-experimental analysis in Bangladesh

 

American Political Science Association (APSA) - Meeting & Exhibition, 2022

Vulnerability, Climate Change Laws, and Adaptation in the MENA Region

 

Midwest Political Science Association – 80th Annual MPSA Conference, 2022

The Climate-Conflict Nexus: Urban Migration and Data Innovations

 

International Congress on Education and Learning – Miami, Florida, 2020

Post-EU-Turkey Deal Refugee Integration Policy in Turkey: A Multi-Level Governance Approach

 

Midwest Political Science Association – 78th Annual MPSA Conference, 2020

How Integration Policy Moderates the Relationship Between Migration and Crime: A Cross- National Analysis

 

International Studies Association – ISSS-IS Annual Conference, 2018

Xenophobia and Its Implications for Refugee Policies: A Cross-National Study

 

Midwest Political Science Association – 76th Annual MPSA Conference, 2018

The Implications of Poverty on the Severity of Human Trafficking

 

Invited Lectures and Presentations

Solutions to Environmental Problems (STEP): Climate Action (Invited Speaker), “Migration-Preventative Adaptation Responses” March 2, 2023

 Back in Business: Bringing firms into Global Local Networks of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding (by invitation only), ISA 2023 Annual Convention, Montréal

 Ideas, Interests, Institutions, and Nation-state Climate Politics: Mitigators, Adapters, and Mitigator-Adapters Conference, “Vulnerability, Climate-Change Laws, and Adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa,” Convoke a conference at Tulane University, June 9 and 10, 2022