Rains, M., & Hill Jr, D. W. (2024). Nationalism and torture. Journal of Peace Research, 61(5), 794- 807.

Bagwell, S., Rains, M., & LaVelle, M. (2024). Of One’s Own Making: Leadership Legitimation Strategy and Human Rights. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 68(10), 1994-2018.

Watson, K. Anne, Matthew Rains, Stephen Bagwell, and K. Chad Clay. 2024. “A Comparative Assessment of Composite Measures of Human Rights Performance.” In Research Methods in Human Rights: A Handbook, 2nd ed, eds. Bård A. Andreassen, Hans-Otto Sano, and Claire O’Brien. Edward Elgar Publishing.

K. Chad Clay, Mennah Abdelwahab, Stephen Bagwell, Morgan Barney, Eduardo Burkle, Tori Hawley, Thalia Kehoe Rowden, Meridith LaVelle, Asia Parker & Matthew Rains (2022) The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on human rights practices: Findings from the Human Rights Measurement Initiative’s 2021 Practitioner Survey, Journal of Human Rights, 21:3, 317-333,

“Rights or Reparation: Climate Loss and Damage from a Rights-Based Approach.” Bi Zhao, Matthew Rains. To be presented at the 2025 Annual APSA Meeting.

“Applying Large Language Models (LLMs) in Social Science Data Collection: Introducing UPROSE”. Chun-Young Park, Matthew Rains, Minho Lee, Jiyoon Kang, and Ella Schoenfelder. To be presented at the 2025 Annual IPSA Meeting.

“Cultures of Human Rights: Connecting International Rights Ecosystems to the United States.” Matthew Rains, Aaron Hitefield. Presented at the 2025 Annual Consortium for Rights Analysis and Measurement (CRAM) Meeting.

“Institutionalized Abuse: State Incentivization and Oppressive Human Rights Violation.” Matthew Rains. Presented at the 2023 Annual EPSA Meeting, the 2022 Annual PSS Meeting, the 2022 Annual APSA Meeting, and the 2022 Annual ISA Meeting.

“National Leadership and the Uneven Fulfillment of Economic and Social Rights” Meridith Lavelle, Stephen Bagwell, Matthew Rains. Presented at the 2022 Annual APSA Meeting.

“Information into Advocacy: How Different Human Rights Information Impacts Perceptions of Performance.” Chad Clay, Mennah Abdelwahab, Matthew Rains. Presented at the 2022 Annual ISA Meeting.

“When Order Matters: Sequencing of Conflict Management Attempts in International-Civil Militarized Conflicts (I-CMCs)”. Matthew Rains, Andrew Owsiak, Paul Diehl, and Gary Goertz. Presented at the 2021 Annual ISA Midwest Meeting.

“Of One’s Own Making: Leadership Legitimation Strategy and Human Rights” Matthew Rains, Stephen Bagwell and Meridith Lavelle. Presented at the 2021 Annual ISA Midwest Meeting.

“Striving for Survival: Status among Human Rights Organizations” Chun-Young Park and Matthew Rains. Presented at the 2021 Annual ISA meeting.

“Dog-Whistle Racism: White Supremacist Rhetoric in American Politics” Matthew Rains and K. Anne Watson. Presented at the 2021 Annual MPSA meeting

“Optionless: Migration and Human Trafficking.” Morgan Barney and Matthew Rains. Presented at the 2019 ISA Midwest meeting. Poster presented at 2019 Biannual Meeting of the Georgia Area Human Rights Network.

“Narcotics, Dark Networks, and Civil Conflict Strategy.” Matthew Rains and Matthew Kopp. Presented at 2019 Annual SPSA meeting.