Image: Uasin Gishu County, Kenya’s Rift Valley (November 2013)

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Aditi Malik and Poulami Roychowdhury. Methodological Impasses: Facing Interrogation and Silence while Gathering Data on Sexual Violence in India,” PS: Political Science & Politics, Vol. 57, No. 2 (2024): 306-309.

Aditi Malik and Monica Prasad. “Peace by Committee: State, Society, and the Control of Communal Violence in Bhagalpur, Bihar,” India Review, Vol. 21, No. 2 (2022): 181-215.

Aditi Malik. “Hindu-Muslim Violence in Unexpected Places: Theory and Evidence from Rural India,” Politics, Groups, & Identities, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2021): 40-58.

Aditi Malik and Philip Onguny. “Elite Strategies, Emphasis Frames, and Mass Participation in Electoral Violence in Kenya,” Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Vol. 38, No. 4 (2020): 560-578.

Aditi Malik. “The Promise of Interpretive Methods in Tightly Controlled Political Settings,” SAGE Research Methods Cases (2019): 2-11.

Aditi Malik. “Constitutional Reform and New Patterns of Electoral Violence: Evidence from Kenya’s 2013 Elections,” Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, Vol. 56, No. 3 (2018): 340-359.

Aditi Malik. “Mobilizing a Defensive Kikuyu-Kalenjin Alliance: The Politicization of the International Criminal Court in Kenya’s 2013 Presidential Election,” African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2016): 48-73.

Susan Dicklitch and Aditi Malik. “Justice, Human Rights, and Reconciliation in Postconflict Cambodia,” Human Rights Review, Vol. 11, No. 4 (2010): 515-530.

Michael L. Penn and Aditi Malik. “The Protection and Development of the Human Spirit: An Expanded Focus for Human Rights Discourse,” Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 3 (2010): 665-688.

SPECIAL ISSUES

Ahmed Ibrahim, Aditi Malik, and Cori Wielenga. “Migration in sub-Saharan Africa: The Somali Refugee and Migrant Experience,” Introduction to a co-edited special issue on the Somali refugee and migrant experience. African Studies Review, Vol. 61, No. 1 (2020): 9-17.

EDITOR-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Aditi Malik. “The Drivers of Mass Protests against Sexual Violence in India: Tracing Continuity and Change,” Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs, Vol. 10 (2024): 75-83.

Aditi Malik. “Devolution and Electoral Violence in Kenya,” in Abu Bakarr Bah (ed.) Post-Conflict Institutional Design: Peacebuilding and Democracy in Africa. London, UK: Zed Books (2020): 164-196.

Aditi Malik. “Ethnicity, Parties, and Electoral Violence in Developing Democracies,” in Matt Golder and Sona Golder (eds.) “Symposium: Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective,” CP: Newsletter of the Comparative Politics Organized Section of the American Political Science Association, Vol. 27, No. 2 (2017): 61-67.

BOOK REVIEWS

Aditi Malik. Book Review of Ending Gender-Based Violence: Justice and Community in South Africa by Hannah Britton. Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2022): 748-750.

Aditi Malik. Book Review of Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace by Susan Thomson. African Studies Review, Vol. 63, No. 2 (2020): E25-E27.

Aditi Malik. “Beyond Rhetoric: Sino-Indian Relations in an Era of Interdependence,” (Book Review of China and India: Prospects for Peace by Jonathan Holslag). Columbia Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2011): 223-225.

ONGOING PROJECTS AND WORKING PAPERS

Aditi Malik. Social Location and Protest Politics: The Logics of Anti-Rape Mobilization in India and South Africa (book project in progress).

Aditi Malik and Daniel Encinas. “Learning from Someone Else’s War: Insurgent Leadership Style, Diffusion, and Comparative Insights on Rebel Group Trajectories from Peru and Nepal” (Revised & Resubmitted).

Dipali Anumol, Natasha Behl, and Aditi Malik. “The Disciplinary Stakes of Studying Sexual and Gender-based Violence (SGBV) through Qualitative Methods: Reflections from India (working paper).

Aditi Malik. “Mobilizing Anti-Rape Protests: Cross-Regional Insights from India and South Africa” (working paper).

• Winner of the Best Paper on Intersectionality Award from the Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association (2025)

Aditi Malik. “Identifying ‘Negative Cases’ through Field Research Methods: Lessons from the Study of Anti-Rape Protests in India and South Africa” (article in progress).