Rate My Professor Joan Barceló

Barceló's research focuses on conflict, terrorism, political behavior, political violence, intergroup conflict, and postwar political dynamics. He co-developed the CoronaNet dataset tracking government responses to COVID-19 across 195 countries, earning the Open Data Impact Award ($15,000) and COVID-19 Facilitator Research Fund ($30,000) from NYU Abu Dhabi in 2020, as well as co-PI status on a European Union Horizon 2020 grant (835,000 €). His publications appear in leading journals, including 'The Political Responsiveness to Conflict Victims: Evidence from a Countrywide Field Experiment in Colombia' (American Political Science Review, 2024, with Mauricio Vela Baron), 'The Effect of Anger Appeals on the Support for Secessionist Parties' (Journal of Politics, 2024), 'Attitudinal and Behavioral Legacies of Wartime Violence: A Meta-Analysis' (American Political Science Review, forthcoming), 'New Estimates of U.S. Civil War Mortality From Full-Census Records' (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024, with Jeffrey L. Jensen, Leonid Peisakhin, and Haoyu Zhai), 'The Long-Term Effects of War Exposure on Civic Engagement' (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021), 'Windows of Repression: Using COVID-19 Policies against Political Dissidents?' (Journal of Peace Research, 2022, with Robert Kubinec, Cindy Cheng, Tiril Hye Rahn, and Luca Messerschmidt), and 'Islamic State’s Terrorist Attacks Disengage their Supporters: Robust Evidence from Twitter' (British Journal of Political Science, 2022, with Elena Labzina). Among his honors are the Stein Rokkan Award for best Ph.D. student paper at the IPSA Annual Meeting (2016), Antoinette Dames Prize (2016), and Baden-Württemberg-Stipendium Award (2020).