Heather Kopp
Heather M. Kopp is a political science Ph.D. Candidate studying international relations and comparative politics. Her research focuses on the domestic determinants and consequences of interstate conflict and on political competition. She has interests in interstate and intrastate conflict processes, violent nonstate actors, voting behavior, public opinion and foreign policy, and party competition. She also has interests in political methodology broadly along with practices focused on the empirical implications of theoretical models, models for categorical data, survival models, and time series cross-sectional analyses. Her dissertation examines how perceptions of party issue ownership affect the severity of audience costs that incumbents incur as a result of international conflict.
Education
B.S., Political Science and History, Truman State University, May 2019
Publications
Kopp, Heather M., Bryce W. Reeder, and Thorin M. Wright. “International Conflict Involvement, Domestic Repression, and the Escalation of Civil Conflict.” Political Research Quarterly, Forthcoming.
Rudy, Michael, and Heather M. Kopp. 2021. “Quality and Quantity: Government Quality, Capitalist Peace, and Dispute Escalation.” Midsouth Political Science Review 21: 57-88.
Teaching
POL 1400: International Relations (tentative Spring 2024)
POL 2700: Comparative Political Systems (Fall 2023)
POL 4410: Politics and War (Summer 2023)
POL 4411: Genocide, Terrorism, and Civil War (Fall 2022)
