Nichola Minott
Associate Teaching Professor in International Affairs, Political Science, and School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
Dr. Nichola Minott holds a PhD from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, were she was the recipient of a Boren Fellowship and participated in the Aceh Research Training Institute. Dr. Minott is originally from Jamaica, West Indies and spent her formative years in Bronx, NY. She also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Paraguay, South America. Through her experiences living in communities impacted by limited resources and economic precariousness, she developed an interest in international environmental policy and its impacts on marginalized communities.
Based on her personal and professional experiences and interests in environmental policy, international security and conflict, Dr. Minott pursued a PhD exploring the impacts of environmental disasters on civil conflicts, specifically the 2004 tsunami and its effect on the civil conflicts in Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Dr. Minott has been a Visiting Scholar/Professor in the International Studies Program, at Boston College where she taught courses on International Environmental Science and Policy, Global Climate Politics, Disasters and Conflicts, and Conflict and Natural Resources. Additionally, she has taught classes at Tufts University and Merrimack College. Dr. Minott has been a panelist at events for The Smithsonian Museum’s education programs and at Boston College on the topic of Climate Change and Justice. Her research interests and teaching focuses on the nexus between conflict and natural resources; global climate policy and politics and examining approaches to race/justice and environmental agreements.
2011. Boren Fellowship. “Assessing the Impact of Sudden and Severe Environmental Events on the Dynamics of Ongoing Civil Conflict: The Case of the 2004 Tsunami on the Conflicts in Sri Lanka and Aceh, Indonesia.”
Panelist at the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF). Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops. March 2021. https://dceff.org/film/climate-emergency-feedback-loops/.
Peace Corps Volunteer, Paraguay, South America.
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Education
PhD, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
MALD, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
BA, International Relations and Sociology, Connecticut College -
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Introduces a range of research methods employed in the study of international affairs. Offers students an opportunity to develop competency in the most commonly used quantitative and qualitative research tools in the social sciences and related humanities. Topics include empirical and normative research traditions, generalizability, historical analyses, hypothesis testing, literature reviews, qualitative and quantitative approaches, research ethics, survey research, units of analysis, and more.
