• Alex Avery
  • 2026-27
  • American Dissertation Fellowships
  • Washington University (St Louis-MO)
  • Doctor of Philosophy
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  • Political Science
  • Desire Under Distress: How Ethnic Conflict Shapes Fertility
  • University City
  • MO
  • United States
  • Alex Avery is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research examines how ethnic conflict shapes women's fertility preferences, theorizing reproduction as a political act. Drawing on feminist theory, she shows how conflict transforms women's bodies into sites of identity, power, and contestation. Using cross-national analyses, survey experiments, and fieldwork, her work highlights how gender and conflict reshape demographic behavior.