Gaku Ito | Osaka Metropolitan University

I am an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Economics at Osaka Metropolitan University (OMU, 大阪公立大学, April 2022 - present). My area of research is empirical studies of International Relations, with primary focuses on the causes, dynamics, and outcomes of political violence and the legacies of historical events and institutions. My methodological interests include archival sources, event data, and images along with causal inference (including field experiments) and spatial analysis techniques.

Before joining OMU, I received a PhD in Advanced Social and International Studies from the University of Tokyo and worked as a Research Fellow at the National Institutes for the Humanities (April 2016 - September 2018) and as an Assistant Professor at Hiroshima University (October 2018 - March 2022). My work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Politics, and other journals as well as several edited volumes.