Peter Schram is a former postdoc for the Political Science Department at UCSD. He holds a Ph.D. from the Political Economics group at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. His research uses empirical and microeconomic methods to study counterinsurgency, economic development, and grey zone conflict. He currently works on the Minerva project “Deterring Complex Threats: the Effects of asymmetry, interdependence, and Multi-polarity on International Strategy”, where he uses game theoretic modeling to examine the decisions of state and non-state actors regarding their tactics and use of force. In Fall 2017, he joined Vanderbilt’s Political Science Department as an Assistant Professor.
