I currently have three peer-reviewed publications and multiple works in progress.
Below there is also information on research and data collection projects I have led or participated in. Some of them are linked to GitHub repositories with tutorials and code.
Gelvez, Juan David, and Leo Bauer. “Climate Disasters, Armed Conflict, and Forced Displacement: A 23-Year Spatial Analysis in Colombia.” 2025. Social Science Quarterly, online first: 1–18. doi:10.1111/ssqu.70053.
McWeeney, Margaret, Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, and Leo Bauer. “Rebel Actors and Legitimacy Building.” 2025. International Politics, 62: 269–290. doi:10.1057/s41311-023-00493-1.
Czymara, Christian S., and Leo Bauer. “Discursive Shifts in the German Right-Wing Newspaper Junge Freiheit 1997–2019: A Computational Approach.” 2025. German Politics, 34(1): 128–155. doi:10.1080/09644008.2023.2231353.
“Where Do Mediators Try to Prevent Civil War?” With David Cunningham, Megan Lloyd and Sloan Lansdale. 2025. Revise and resubmit at Journal of Peace Research.
“The Nonviolent Legacies of Rebel Group Origins.” With Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham. 2025. Revise and resubmit at Journal of Peace Research.
“Explaining Informant Recruitment Tactics by Coercive Institutions in Autocracies.” 2025. Early draft.
“Media Manipulation Strategies During Protest in Autocracies: Evidence from the German Democratic Republic.” 2025. Working paper.
Non-State Actors in Armed Conflict Dataset Update: Update of the NSA dataset by Cunningham, Gleditsch and Salehyan for dyads active between 2012 and 2024. I am the lead graduate research assistant for this project with responsibilities in coding rules and codebook development, coding, coder training, data collection monitoring and evaluation, data cleaning, dataset construction and preparation of the data release package.
Mediation in Self-Determination Disputes Dataset: Dataset that records mediation events for a global sample of self-determination disputes between 1991 and 2015. I was a co-lead graduate research assistant for this NSF-funded project with responsibilities in codebook development, coding, coder training and supervision, data collection monitoring and evaluation, data cleaning, dataset construction and preparation of the data release package.
Converting SRDP Faction IDs to UCDP Actor IDs: Table that allows for the conversion of SRDP faction IDs into UCDP actor IDs.
Scraping Data on Peaceful Revolution Protest in East Germany: Webscraper in Python to collect protest data on the 1989–1990 Peaceful Revolution in the German Democratic Republic.
Scraping the Archive of German Far-Right Weekly Junge Freiheit: Webscraper in Python to collect text data from Germany’s biggest weekly far-right newspaper.