Violence, Conflict, and Security Lab (ViCS)

Dilruba Tas (she/her/hers) is a ViCS predoctoral fellow and fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Florida. Her research interests include gender and women’s studies, women’s political violence and participation in armed rebellion, and international security studies with a regional focus on the Middle East. dtas@ufl.edu

Arthur Honig is a ViCS Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Florida in the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies. His research focuses on security issues, mainly in the Middle East. He has published on violence and diplomacy in Intra-state conflicts, civil-military relations, intelligence, deterrence and coercion, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and foreign policy decision making. He finished his PhD in political science at UCLA, and was subsequently a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Military & Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary. Since then, he has taught at Tel Aviv University, Duke University, Tokyo International University, and Hampden Sydney College. ohonig@ufl.edu