My name is Dr. Skip Mark. I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Rhode Island (URI), Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies, and Co-Director of the CIRIGHTS Data Project.

I hold the Sylvia-Chandley Peace Professorship and serve as a Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellow in Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University's Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP). I am also a Visiting Scholar at the University of Maryland's Institute for Public Leadership.

My research focuses on human rights measurement, state repression, atrocity prevention, contentious politics, labor rights, and international political economy.

Current projects include applying large language models to cross-national human rights coding, the political economy of IMF conditionality and dissent, and sub-national human rights measurement in the United States. My forthcoming book, Science and the Study of Human Rights (SUNY Press, August 2026, with Cingranelli, Filippov, and Rundlett), takes stock of advances in quantitative human rights research.