Her article, "Should Peacemakers Take Sides? Great Power Mediation, Coercion and Bias" was published in the May 2009 issue of the American Political Science Review. Professor Favretto has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on the topics of third-party intervention, U.S. foreign policy, and war and peace. Before joining the UW faculty, she was a pre-doctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science at Yale University and a faculty fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. She earned her doctorate in 2009 at the University of California, Los Angeles.