I currently have two peer-reviewed publications and multiple works in progress.
In addition, for several research and data collection projects I have led or participated in there is information below. Some of them are linked to GitHub repositories with tutorials and code.
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.
McWeeney, Margaret, Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, and Leo Bauer. “Rebel Actors and Legitimacy Building.” 2023. International Politics, online first: 1–22. doi:10.1057/s41311-023-00493-1.
“The Nonviolent Legacies of Rebel Group Origins.” With Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham. 2025. Revise and resubmit at Journal of Peace Research.
“The Spatial Interplay of Climate Disasters, Armed Conflict, and Forced Displacement: Evidence from Colombia.” With Juan David Gelvez. 2025. Under review.
“Where Do Mediators Try to Prevent Civil War?” With David Cunningham, Megan Lloyd and Sloan Lansdale. 2025. Under review.
“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.
“Rebel Organizational Legacies and Civilian Victimization.” With Jessica Maves Braithwaite, Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, Margaret McWeeney and Sean Rao. 2024. Working paper.
Converting SRDP Faction IDs to UCDP Actor IDs: A table that allows for the conversion of SRDP faction IDs into UCDP actor IDs.
Scraping Data on Peaceful Revolution Protest in East Germany: A webscraper in Python to collect protest data on the 1989–1990 Peaceful Revolution in the German Democratic Republic.
Predicting Fact-Checking Results Using BERT Language Models: A project to better understand disinformation and the impact of counter-strategies.
Scraping the Archive of German Far-Right Weekly Junge Freiheit: A webscraper in Python to collect text data from Germany’s biggest weekly far-right newspaper.