Page Fortna is professor of political science at Columbia University and a member of the Staltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. Her research focuses on the durability of peace in the aftermath of both civil and interstate wars, war termination, and terrorism.
She is author of two books: Does Peacekeeping Work? Shaping Belligerents’ Choices after Civil War (Princeton University Press, 2008), and Peace Time: Cease-Fire Agreements and the Durability of Peace (Princeton University Press, 2004), as well as articles that have appeared in World Politics, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, and the Annual Review of Political Science. She is currently working on a book project on terrorism in civil wars.
Fortna has been a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University (2004-05) and a visiting fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Mass. (2002-03). Before coming to Columbia, Fortna was a pre-doctoral and then a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Before graduate school, she worked at the Henry L. Stimson Center, a think tank in Washington, D.C.
She is a graduate of Wesleyan University and holds a PhD (1998) from Harvard University.
