I currently have five peer-reviewed publications and multiple works in progress.
Below there is also information on my current and past research and data collection projects. Some of them are linked to GitHub repositories with tutorials and code.
Cunningham, David E., Leo Bauer, Sloan Lansdale, and Megan Lloyd. “Under What Conditions Does Preventive Mediation Occur in Self-Determination Disputes?” 2025. Journal of Peace Research, forthcoming.
Bauer, Leo, and Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham. “The Nonviolent Legacies of Rebel Group Origins.” 2025. Journal of Peace Research, forthcoming. Paper.
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.” 2023. 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.” 2023. German Politics, 34(1): 128–155. doi:10.1080/09644008.2023.2231353.
“The Non-State Actors in Armed Conflict Dataset Update.” With David Cunningham and Olivia Bauer. 2025. Early draft.
“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.
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.