Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham is Professor at the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland. Her primary research interests include self-determination, secession, civil war, leadership in rebellion, and non-violent resistance. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 2007 and has been a Fulbright Scholar and is a Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.  Her work has been published by Oxford University Press, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, Journal of Politics, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Research, International Studies Quarterly, International Organization, Research & Politics and Perspectives on Politics. ​She received the ISA's 2017 ISSS Emerging Scholar Award.