Zachariah Mampilly is the Marxe Endowed Chair of International Affairs at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at The City University of New York and a member of the doctoral faculty in the Department of Political Science at the Graduate Center at CUNY. He is the co-founder of the Program on African Social Research and the author of “Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life during War.” (Cornell University Press, 2011)