Tim Gulden

Research Fellow

Timothy Gulden is a research fellow with the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) and a research assistant professor with the Center for Social Complexity in in the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University.  He completed his PhD at the School of Public Policy in December of 2004 with dissertation entitled "Adaptive Agent Modeling in a Policy Context".  He has been a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution's Center for Social and Economic Dynamics (CSED) and attended the Santa Fe Institute's Complex Systems Summer School in 2002.  From 1989 through 1999, he was the technical director of the GIS program for Westchester County, New York.

While at CISSM, he has worked on a wide variety of issues including the oversight of hazardous biological research, the security implications of various policies in response to climate change and the spatial and temporal dynamics of civil violence.  He has also done work analyzing the global urban system using satellite derived data on nighttime lights.

Currently, his main projects are a USIP funded study of the relationship between local ethnic mix and propensity to violence in conflict situations and a large interdisciplinary effort at GMU to build agent-based models of violent conflict in Eastern Africa.

Contact

Tim Gulden
tgulden@umd.edu
(301) 404-5747

Recent Publications

Tim Gulden, Gulden CV Fall 2007, (Curriculum Vitae, August 2007)

Tim Gulden, "The Security Challenges of Climate Change: Who is at Risk and Why?", (in Matthias Ruth and María E. Ibarrarán (eds), Distributional Impacts of Climate Change and Disasters: Concepts and Cases, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing. © 2009, September 2009)

Tim Gulden, PUAF 699K: Civil Conflict and Terrorism, (Syllabus, January 2008)

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