About
Collin Sullivan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. His research interests include applications of formal theory and complex systems methodology to the prediction, prevention, and mitigation of human rights abuses, political violence, atrocities, and genocide. Collin has worked for more than ten years as a human rights practitioner, training human rights defenders, activists, journalists, researchers, observers, monitors, and others around the world on secure and strategic documentation of human rights abuses, and on open source investigative techniques and methods. He has been a Research Fellow at the Human Rights Center at the School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the Technology Advisory Board to the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court. He continues to partner with and support human rights defenders in their work.
Fields of Study:
- World Politics
- Human rights
- Political violence
- Formal theory
- Complex systems