William Nomikos

William Nomikos, who joined UCSB in July 2023, is a researcher specializing in International Relations and intervention, civil wars, climate change and conflict, and identity politics. Prior to UCSB, he was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 2019. His research employs computational, experimental, econometric, and field methods to explore how identity and domestic politics shape international intervention. His forthcoming book with Cambridge University Press, Local Peace, International Builders: How the UN Builds Peace from the Bottom Up, examines the conditions for successful international peacebuilding. He is also working on a second book, Patrolling the Commons: Peacekeeping and Conflict in a Climate Changed-World, which investigates the role of peacekeepers in mitigating climate change-induced social conflict in weakly institutionalized settings.