Dr Shesterinina is Director of the Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow leading the £1.2m Civil War Paths project (https://www.civilwarpaths.org/) and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield. Her field-intensive research examines internal dynamics of and international intervention in civil war, with a focus on mobilization, ex-combatant reintegration and civilian protection norms and practices.
