Austin S. Matthews, Ph.D.

Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at East Carolina University, affiliated with the university's Security Studies program.

My research focuses on comparative autocracies. The core of my work examines questions of elite behavior, political violence, and regime change. I take a mixed methods approach, combining large-observation quantitative analyses with process-tracing narratives and original interviews from single- and limited-case studies. Many of my projects introduce original datasets, collected from a wide range of primary and secondary source materials in over a dozen languages.

My work has been published in Armed Forces & Society, the British Journal of Political Science, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Democratization, Electoral Politics, German Politics, International Interactions Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and the Journal of Peace Research.

My teaching portfolio includes courses in the areas of comparative politics and international relations. I have taught both in-person seminars and asynchronous online courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Contact: matthewsa22@ecu.edu

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8972-8329

Harvard Dataverse: austin.matthews