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Agatha Hultquist

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Assistant Professor
Political Science Public Administration University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

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Agatha Hultquist Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Assistant Professor

Political Science Public Administration

Specialty area(s)

civil war; terrorism; ethnic conflict; nonviolence; repression; authoritarian regimes; identity politics

Brief biography

Dr. Agatha Skierkowski Hultquist is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Maryland-College Park in 2019. Her primary areas of study include comparative politics and international relations, and her research bridges these subfields and focuses on the onset, conduct, termination, and resolution of conflict (including civil war, ethnic conflict, and terrorism), state repression, identity politics, and authoritarian regimes. Regionally, her research focuses on the Middle East and North Africa and she has conducted field research in Sri Lanka. 

Current courses at UWL

FYS 100: Terrorist or Freedom Fighter? Political Violence Around the World

POL 234: Comparative Politics

POL 347: Peace and Conflict 

Education

Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Maryland-College Park

MA in International Studies, University of Denver

BA in Political Science, University of Connecticut

Kudos

presented

Agatha Hultquist, Political Science & Public Administration, presented "Authoritarian regimes, legislatures, and state repression" at the International Studies Association annual convention on March 15 in Montreal, Canada.

Submitted on: Mar. 27, 2023

 

presented

Anthony Chergosky, Agatha Hultquist and Adam Van Liere, all Political Science & Public Administration, presented "Does Modality Matter? Evaluating the effects of in-person and online simulations on student learning in introductory courses" at International Studies Association - South Annual Conference on Oct. 7 in St. Augustine, Florida.

Submitted on: Oct. 10, 2022

 

published

Agatha Hultquist, Political Science & Public Administration, co-authored the article "Why Do States Violently Repress Some Political Organizations, but Not Others? Evidence from Ethnopolitical Actors in the Middle East and North Africa" in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, published on Aug. 18 by Taylor and Francis.

Submitted on: Sept. 2, 2022

 

presented

Agatha Hultquist, Political Science & Public Administration, presented "To Campaign, Protest, or Fight: Ethnic Minority Strategies and Ethnic Majority Fragmentation" at the International Studies Association annual convention on March 30 in Nashville, TN.

Submitted on: April 8, 2022

 

published

Agatha Hultquist, Political Science & Public Administration, co-authored the article "The Politics of Co-optation: Ethnopolitical Minority Organizations and Authoritarian Elections in the Middle East" in Ethnopolitics published on Jan. 11 by Taylor & Francis.

Submitted on: Feb. 3, 2021

 

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