Corinna Jentzsch is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University.

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Corinna Jentzsch is the Principal Investigator of COUNTERRR and an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University. She is a scholar of social movements, civil war, international security, African politics, and fieldwork ethics, and has conducted fieldwork in Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi, and Tunisia. Her current research, supported by an ERC Starting Grant COUNTERRR, focuses on government responses to emerging insurgencies, civilian collective action during civil war, and conflict transformation and escalation.

Her recent book Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique (Cambridge University Press, 2022) examines how and why community-based militias form and spread. Her work has also appeared in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Perspective on Politics, Political Geography, Civil Wars, Africa, ForeignAffairs.com, African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review, and several edited volumes. Her research has been supported by, among others, grants from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and the European Research Council (ERC).

She received her PhD from Yale University, and prior to that studied at Free University Berlin and Sciences Po Paris. She is an associate editor of the International Studies Review, the flagship journal of the International Studies Association.

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