Blair Welsh is a Postdoctoral Associate at NYU Abu Dhabi. His research investigates the politics of development and armed violence, with a particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa. His methodological portfolio includes survey and field experiments, text-as-data, spatial econometrics, machine learning, and conventional statistics, as well as strategies for causal inference. Welsh's research is published or forthcoming in the International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, and Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies.