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Elisabeth Wood is Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Her current research focuses on sexual violence during war. She is the author of Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and Forging Democracy from Below: Insurgent Transitions in South Africa and El Salvador (Cambridge University Press, 2000), as well as various scholarly articles. She previously taught at New York University (1995-2004) and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Cape Town and the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (San Salvador), and a scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (1995-1997). She is also a Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and serves on the editorial boards of Politics and Society and the Contentious Politics series of Cambridge University Press.