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Annamaria Prati is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science studying International Relations and Political Methodology. Her substantive interests include state capacity building interventions in post-conflict and fragile states, with a particular focus on reforms that seek to better include ethnic minorities, women, and other marginalized groups. Her broader research seeks to examine how pre-colonial forms of governance and “statehood” might better support citizens while still participating within the international system. Her dissertation includes a mixed methods case study of a United Nations led intervention for villages in rural Nepal, where the intervention specifically targeted reforming traditional governance structures to include Dalits, ethnic minorities, and women.