0I 2A - Wednesday, September 15, 2010 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com MONDAY: In Other Ivory Towers M F While most of his classmates were working toward their college degrees, Political Science Prof. Allan Stam decid- ed to pause his studies and enlist in the army halfway through his undergradu- ate years at Cornell University. It was this military background that shaped his interest in politics, said Stam, who's also a University alum. "It was the experiences I had in the army that led to my interest in specifi- cally nuclear deterrence issues and then subsequently international relations," he said. After spending three years in Army Special Forces, Stam returned to Cornell to finish his undergraduate degree, grad- uating in 1988 with a bachelor of arts in government. While Stam grew up on the East Coast, splitting his time between Wash- ington D.C. and Boston, he decided to attend graduate school at the University of Michigan, where multiple members of his family had studied, as well. TUESDAY: MiChigan Myths THURSDAY: FRIDAY: Campus Clubs Photos of the Week rom Army to academia "My adviser at Cornell, Peter Katzen- stein, urged me to go to Michigan," he said. "I also have a younger brother and sister and a grandfather that went to Michigan." After receiving his master's degree in political science in 1991 and his Ph.D. in political science in 1993, Stam went on to teach at American University, Yale Uni- versity and Dartmouth College. In 2007, Stam returned to Ann Arbor after the University offered him a posi- tion at the Institute for Social Research. In accordance with his army experi- ence, Stam's main academic focus is on armed conflict. Prior to teaching at the University, Stam was involved in several research projects on the topic. "The first work I did was on who wins and who loses wars and how long they last," he said. Stam's work has allowed him to travel abroad and study various internation- al conflicts. From 2003 to 2006, Stam worked on a series of projects to better understand the Rwandan Genocide. In collaboration with Notre Dame Professor Christian Davenport, Stam studied the effects of political violence on communities around the world including in Gujarat, India. "We did an area study where we inter- viewed 150,000 people in Gujarat to doc- ument specifically what are the bases of intra-caste discrimination," he said. Stam is currently working on two related projects dealing with leadership and military service. While he has spent time teaching at Yale and Dartmouth, Stam holds the University in high esteem, citing it as a specific point of pride for the state of Michigan. "One of things that I think is great about the University of Michigan as the flagship public university in a state, there's a really wonderful reciprocal rela- tionship between the people in Michigan and their university," Stam said. -HILLARYBOK Professor Allan Stam speaks in his office about his current projects in Political Science. 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