Bonnie Weir is a senior lecturer and assistant dean of undergraduate education at the Jackson School of Global Affairs. She is the founder and co-director of the the Peacebuilding Initiative at the Jackson School. She also serves as the co-director of the certificate program in Human Rights at Yale.

Weir’s research focuses on political violence and post-conflict politics with a focus on Northern Ireland. Her current projects investigate whether and how sectarianism affects political behavior and the consequences of minority rights provisions. She teaches courses on political violence and the “Troubles” and post-conflict politics in Northern Ireland. 

Previously, Weir was a senior lecturer of political science and served as director of undergraduate studies for the Program on Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale. She regularly lectures for the Yale Young Global Scholars program and is a visiting scholar at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast. Weir is also on the board of Peaceful Schools International and a works with a number of groups on applied and policy projects, including the Ad Hoc Committee to Protect the Good Friday Agreement and the Washington Ireland Program.

She received a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago.