Dr. Erica Chenoweth is a postdoctoral fellow at the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Her doctoral dissertation investigated the reasons groups resort to terrorism in democracies despite the availability of legal methods of protest. Dr. Chenoweth is also researching the conditions under which nonviolent resistance methods are more effective than violent methods in achieving regime change, expelling foreign occupiers, or achieving self-determination. In addition to research, Dr. Chenoweth has taught international relations courses on war and peace, terrorism,and post-9/11 American values at the University of Colorado and Harvard University.