Rate My Professor Joan Barceló

Joan Barceló is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Division of Social Science at New York University Abu Dhabi, a position he has held since September 2019, and also serves as Global Network Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Arts and Science, New York University. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis in 2019, following an M.A. in Politics (Comparative Politics) from New York University (2012-2014), an M.Sc. in Research in Political Science from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (2011-2012), and a B.A. in Political Science from Universitat de Barcelona (2006-2010, summa cum laude, recipient of the 2010 National Award for best graduating student in the social sciences in Spain and Extraordinary Prize for highest GPA). During his doctoral studies, he was a visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Mannheim in spring 2018 and a visiting junior scholar at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, in fall 2017.

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).