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Anita R. Gohdes is Professor of International and Cyber Security at the Hertie School in Berlin.

Previously, she was Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Zurich, and postdoctoral research fellow at the Belfer Center and the Women and Public Policy Program in the Harvard Kennedy School.

Her research focuses on the intersection of technology and security, as well as the measurement of political violence. Her recently published book is titled Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence and theoretically and empirically investigates how governments use cyber controls to support their strategies of violent repression.

Her work has been covered by various news outlets and is accepted or appears in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Nature Human Behavior, Journal of Human Rights, and at Oxford University Press. She is also an Associate Editor at the Journal of Peace Research.

Since 2009, she has been working for the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, and with Amnesty International on investigating the human rights costs on Internet shutdowns.