Tyson Chatagnier teaches Conflict Management in the TFAS Prague program in Prague, Czech Republic.
He is an associate professor of political science in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Houston. Dr. Chatagnier earned his bachelor’s degree in political science and history from Texas A&M University and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Rochester. After finishing his Ph.D., Dr. Chatagnier worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Center on International Politics and Conflict Resolution at the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento, Italy, and taught courses at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Europe, in Bologna. He then spent a year at Vanderbilt University as a postdoctoral scholar.
Dr. Chatagnier’s research interests include trade and conflict, civil war and terrorism, economic sanctions, and the role of military service on political attitudes. He has published dozens of papers in political science journals and edited volumes, and has co-authored a book on international terrorism. In the spring of 2022, he was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bologna, where he taught a course on the use of big data for peace studies.