Visiting PhD Student | Winter 2024

Contact : tbandulairwin@gmail.com

Presentation

Tanya Bandula-Irwin is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto. Her research is on armed group taxation, armed group governance, and the political economy of civil wars. Her dissertation focuses on armed group taxation in the Philippines, though she also has extensive experience researching in and on Somalia. Tanya is a fellow at the Post-Conflict Reintegration Lab at the University of Toronto and the Centre on Armed Groups. Previously, she has done research on tax and governance in fragile contexts with the International Organization for Migration, the Danish Refugee Council, the International Centre for Tax and Development and the World Bank. Her research has been published by the Journal of Eastern African Studies, PS: Political Science & Politics, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, UBC Press, and the International Centre for Tax and Development.

Areas of expertise

• Civil war
• Non-state armed groups
• Taxation
• Political economy of conflict
• Philippines
• Somalia

Publications

Ahmad, Aisha, Tanya Bandula-Irwin, and Mohamed Ibrahim. “Who Governs? State versus Jihadist Political Order in Somalia.” Journal of Eastern African Studies, May 24, 2022, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2022.2075817.

Bandula-Irwin, Tanya, and Veronica Kitchen. “The Twitter Conference as a New Medium of Scholarly Communication (and How to Host One).” PS: Political Science & Politics, July 7, 2022, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096522000749.

Bandula-Irwin, Tanya, Max Gallien, Ashley Jackson, Vanessa van den Boogaard, and Florian Weigand. “Beyond Greed: Why Armed Groups Tax.” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, February 20, 2022, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2022.2038409.

Bandula-Irwin, T., Gallien, M., Jackson, A., van den Boogaard, V., Weigand, F. (2021) “Beyond Greed: Why armed groups tax”. ICTD Working Paper 131.

Bandula-Irwin, T. (2020). “Gender and Bias in Research Ethics Approval : Getting
Women in the Field and Accounting for Gender Specific Risks to Fieldwork.” In Gender in the Academy in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press.