My name is Priscilla Torres. I am United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Peace Scholar Fellow and a PhD candidate at Duke University in political science. My research lies at the intersection of international relations and comparative politics. Broadly, I am interested in international peacebuilding, community dispute resolution and gender and conflict. My dissertation focuses on the effects of international peacebuilding on a multitude of local peace outcomes, conditional on community dispute resolution structures already in place. My work has previously been published in International Studies Quarterly and Populism. Previously, I was a pre-doctoral research fellow at the Gender and Security Sector (GSS) Lab at Cornell University.

I am originally from the Los Angeles area and am a proud “Angelino” who enjoys traveling, coffee, photography, music and making custom keyboards.