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POSITIONS
Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, Pardee RAND Graduate School, 2019-Present
Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation, 2015-Present
Faculty, Pardee RAND Graduate School, 2014-Present
Political Scientist, RAND Corporation, 2011-2015
Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of British Columbia, 2003-2011

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Political Science, University of California, San Diego, 2003
B.A. in Economics and Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 1997
Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

RECENT RAND REPORTS

Influencing Adversary States: Quelling Perfect Storms. Paul K. Davis, Angela O’Mahony, Christian Curriden, and Jonathan Lamb. 2021. Link

Chasing Multinational Interoperability: Values, Objectives, and Strategies. Christopher G. Pernin, Angela O’Mahony, Gene Germanovich, and Matthew Lane. 2020. Link

A Complex Systems Agenda for Teaching and Conducting Policy Studies. Paul K. Davis, Tim McDonald, Ann Pendleton-Jullian, Angela O’Mahony and Osonde A. Osoba. 2020. Link

RECENT BOOK

Paul K. Davis, Angela O’Mahony and Jonathan Pfautz, eds. Social-Behavioral Modeling for Complex Systems. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. 2019. (Also available at Amazon)

RECENT ARTICLES

“Reforming the Teaching and Conducting of Policy Studies to Deal Better with Complex Systems.” Forthcoming in Journal of Policy and Complex Systems. 2021. With Paul K. Davis, Tim McDonald, Ann Pendleton-Julian and Osonde Osoba.

“Representing Qualitative Social Science in Computational Models to Aid Reasoning Under Uncertainty: National Security Examples.” In a special issue of Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation. 14(1): 57-78. 2017 (with Paul K. Davis). Link

“Social Media Data and the Dynamics of Thai Protests.” Asian Journal of Social Science Special Issue on “Digital Methods in Asian Studies”. 43: 545-566: 2015. (With Benjamin Nyblade and Aim Sinpeng). Paper

“Playing with Fire: Pre-Electoral Fiscal Manipulation and the Risk of a Speculative Attack.” International Studies Quarterly. 58(4): 828-838. December 2014 (With Benjamin Nyblade). Paper

“Migrants’ Remittances and Home Country Elections.” In a special issue of Studies in Comparative and International Development on “Politics and Migration in Outmigration Countries” 49(1):44-66. March 2014 (with Benjamin Nyblade). Paper

“Political Investment: Remittances and Elections.” British Journal of Political Science
43(4): 799-820. October 2013. Paper