Hilary A. Matfess

Sié Center

International Security, International Studies

In Love and at War: Marriage in Non-State Armed Groups, Cambridge University Press Elements Series, (2024).

"Safety in Numbers? The Relationship between Political Representation and Violence Targeting Women in Kenya" with Marie E. Berry and Roudabeh Kishi. International Feminist Journal of Politics 25, no. 3 (2023): 506-528.

Matfess, Hilary and Meredith Loken. "Women"s Wings in Rebel Organisations: Prevalence, Purposes and Variations." Civil Wars. (2024)

Matfess, Hilary. "New Frontiers in Rebel Socialisation: Considering Care and Marriage." Civil Wars25.2-3 (2023)

Matfess, Hilary, Mariam Santara, and Jakana Thomas. "From the public to the private: mapping women"s formal and informal participation in peacebuilding in Mali." African Affairs (2023):

"Proxy Wars in the Horn of Africa." With Terrence Lyons In Routledge Handbook of Proxy Wars, pp. 311-325. Routledge.

"Introducing the Women"s Activities in Armed Rebellion (WAAR) project, 1946-2015." With Meredith Loken Journal of Peace Research (2022)

Alms, Arms, and the Aftermath: A Case Study of the Legacies of Rebel Provision of Humanitarian Aid in Ethiopia." African Affairs. 121.483 (2022):197-220.

"Women"s Participation in Violent Non-State Organizations" with Meredith Loken. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies (2022)

"Safety in Numbers? The Relationship between Political Representation and Violence Targeting Women in Kenya" with Marie E. Berry and Roudabeh Kishi. International Feminist Journal of Politics 25, no. 3 (2023): 506-528.

"Opportunistic Repression: Civilian Targeting by the State in Response to COVID-19" with Don Grasse, Mel Pavlik, and Travis Curtice, International Security 46. no 2 (2021):130-165.

"Tanzania: The Roots of Repression," with Nic Cheeseman and an Anonymous Tanzanian Co-Author, The Journal of Democracy 32. no 2 (2021): 77 -89.

"Part and Parcel? Examining Al Shabaab and Boko Haram"s Violence Targeting Civilians and Violence Targeting Women." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism (2020): 1-19.

"In Plain Sight: The Neglected Linkage between Brideprice and Violent Conflict." with Valerie Hudson International Security, (2017:) 42(1), 7-40.

"Suicide Squads: The Logic of Linked Suicide Bombings." Security Studies 28, no. 1 (2019): 25-57, with Jason Warner and Ellen Chapin

"Boko Haram: History and Context." In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. 2017.

"Institutionalizing instability: The constitutional roots of insecurity in Nigeria"s Fourth Republic." Stability: International Journal of Security and Development 5, no. 1 (2016).

"Rwanda and Ethiopia: Developmental Authoritarianism and the New Politics of African Strong Men."African Studies Review 58, no. 2 (2015): 181-204.

Women and the War on Boko Haram, Zed Books, (2017). Reviewed in Africa, the Journal of Modern African Studies, Human Rights Quarterly, African Studies Review,and Global Africana