About Me

Welcome to my website. I am an Assistant Professor in the department of Political Science at the University of Rhode Island. I am also a Research Fellow at the Gender and the Security Sector Lab (GSS lab) at the Government Department at Cornell University. I received my PhD in political science from Binghamton University (SUNY) in 2022. I study international relations and comparative politics and I am broadly interested in understanding the dynamics of political economy of security, civil-military relations, and political violence. I am also interested in the role of gender in conflict and post-conflict environments and authoritarian settings, and UN peacekeeping missions.

From 2021-now I work (as a Predoctoral Fellow/Postdoctoral Fellow/ and Research Associate) at the GSS lab at Cornell University where I work with different security forces around the world (Jordan, Bangladesh, Uganda, Uruguay, Cambodia, and other countries) in order to help improve the experiences of uniformed women within the police and military institutions. Please refer to my ELSIE Initiative Research page for more information.

I use a variety of research methodologies in my work including cross-national large N, qualitative and quantitative comparative case studies, survey and experimental designs, and archival research. I am a political scientist by training but am also interested in policy implications of political science research. From 2021-now, I worked with different national and international organizations/institutions like Geneva Center for Security Sector Governance, UN Women, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Jordanian National Commission for Women, University of Dhaka, and other local and international stakeholder to produce several comprehensive barrier assessment for police and military institutions around the world.

You can reach me at roya.izadi@uri.edu or ri46@cornell.edu.

Twitter: @RoyaIzadi68