Matthew Nanes
2015-2016 Dissertation Fellow
Matthew Nanes was an IGCC Dissertation Fellow from 2015-2016. He is associate director and associate senior instructional professor at the University of Chicago’s Committee on International Relations. His research is on domestic security institutions and citizen-state relations, particularly in places plagued by violent intergroup conflict. His dissertation focuses on the way that integration of bureaucratic institutions, and especially the police, affects the citizen-state relationship and the likelihood of group-based conflict.

Expertise & Interests
- Domestic security institutions
- Citizen-state relations
- Violent intergroup conflict