FACULTY BIOS 2019
Andrew Bennett is Professor in the Department of Government at
Georgetown University. He teaches courses on the American foreign policy
process, international relations theory, and qualitative research methods. He
has been a fellow at arms control and international relations research centers
at Stanford and Harvard Universities, and he has written on the U.S. foreign
policy process, research methods, alliance burden‐sharing, and regional
conflicts and peacekeeping. Professor Bennett is the author of Condemned to
Repetition? The Rise, Fall, and Reprise of Soviet‐Russian Military
Interventionism 1973‐1996 (MIT Press, 1999). He is, with Alexander George,
the co‐author of Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences
(MIT Press, 2005). From 1994‐1995, as a Council on Foreign Relations
International Affairs Fellow, he was Special Assistant to the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Joseph S. Nye Jr. His
op‐eds have appeared in the New York Times and the Christian Science
Monitor, and he has appeared on National Public Radio, CNN, and Fox
News.
Zenobia Chan
is a graduate student in the department of politics at Princeton University. Her broad interests include international security,
experimental methods, and behavioral economics. Prior to her doctoral studies,
Zenobia was an analyst and geo-data engineer at Google, and has served analyst
and consultant positions at the United Nations, OECD, and World Bank. She holds
a Master of International Affairs in International Security Policy from
Columbia University, an MA summa cum laude in International Economic Policy
from Sciences Po Paris, and a BBA in International Business and Global
Management from the University of Hong Kong.
Thomas Dodman is Assistant Professor in the
department of French and the College at Columbia University. He is the author
of What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire and the Time of a Deadly Emotion
(Chicago, 2018) and is currently co-editing Une Histoire de la guerre
for the Éditions du Seuil (forthcoming in 2018). A cultural and intellectual
historian of modern France and its empire, Dr. Dodman received his PhD from the
University of Chicago in 2011. He previously taught at Boston College and was a
Mellon Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Thad Dunning is Robson Professor of Political Science at the University of
California, Berkeley. He studies comparative politics, political economy, and
methodology, and his current work on ethnic and other cleavages draws on
field and natural experiments and qualitative fieldwork in Latin America,
India, and Africa. Dunning has written on several methodological topics,
including the role of multi-method research. His book Natural
Experiments in the Social Sciences: A Design-Based Approach (Cambridge University Press,
2012) discusses the discovery, analysis, and evaluation of strong research
designs. He is also the author, with Susan C. Stokes, Marcelo Nazareno, and
Valeria Brusco, of Brokers,
Voters, and Clientelism: The Puzzle of Distributive Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
His research has been published in the American Political Science Review, Comparative
Political Studies, International Organization, The Journal
of Conflict Resolution, Political Analysis, Studies in Comparative
International Development, and other journals. Dunning's first
book, Crude
Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes (2008,
Cambridge University Press), contrasts the democratic and authoritarian effects
of natural resource wealth and won the Best Book Award from the Comparative
Democratization section of APSA. He received a Ph.D. degree in political
science and an M.A. degree in economics from the University of California,
Berkeley (2006).
Colin Elman is
Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Qualitative and
Multi-Method Inquiry in the Maxwell School, Syracuse University. He is a
co‐founder of both the International History and Politics and the Qualitative
and Multi‐method Research organized sections of the American Political Science
Association, and co-director of the annual summer Institute for Qualitative and
Multi-Method Research. He leads (with Diana Kapiszewski, Georgetown University)
the Qualitative Data Repository. He is series co-editor (with John Gerring,
Boston University and James Mahoney, Northwestern University) of the Cambridge
University Press Strategies for Social Inquiry book series, and (with Diana
Kapiszewski and James Mahoney) the new Methods for Social Inquiry book series.
Elman co-chaired (with Arthur Lupia, University of Michigan) the American
Political Science Association’s committee on Data Access and Research
Transparency (DA-RT). Elman is (with Miriam Fendius Elman) the co‐editor of Progress
in International Relations Theory: Appraising the Field (MIT Press); and Bridges
and Boundaries: Historians, Political Scientists, and the Study of
International Relations (MIT Press); (with John Vasquez) of Realism and
the Balancing of Power: A New Debate (Prentice Hall); and (with Michael
Jensen) of the Realism Reader (Routledge). Elman has published articles
in the American Political Science Review, the Annual Review of Political
Science, Comparative Political Studies, the International History
Review, International Organization, International Security, International
Studies Quarterly, Millennium, Perspectives, Political Science &
Politics, Sociological Methods &
Research, and Security Studies.
Tasha
Fairfield is Associate Professor at the London School of
Economics. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of
California, Berkeley, an M.A. in Latin American Studies and an M.S. in physics
from Stanford University, and an A.B. in physics, summa cum
laude, from Harvard. Her research on comparative political
economy and inequality has been supported by the Social Science Research
Council, Fulbright-Hays, and the International Centre for Tax and
Development. Her book, Private Wealth and Public Revenue in Latin
America: Business Power and Tax Politics (CUP 2015) won the Latin
American Studies Association 2016 Donna Lee Van Cott Award for the best book on
political institutions. Her methodology articles include “Explicit
Bayesian Analysis for Process Tracing: Guidelines, Opportunities, and Caveats”
(Political Analysis 2017, with Andrew Charman), which won APSA’s 2017
QMMR Sage Best Paper Award. She is a 2017-18 Mellon Foundation Fellow at
the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford
University, where she has been working on a book project (with Andrew
Charman), Social Inquiry and Bayesian Inference: Rethinking Qualitative
Research.
Gary Goertz is professor of
Political Science at the Kroc Center for International Peace Studies at Notre
Dame University. He is the author or editor of nine books and over 50 articles
and chapters on topics of international institutions, methodology, and conflict
studies. His work on international relations includes Contexts of International Politics (1994), War and Peace in International Rivalry (2000), International Norms and Decision Making: A Punctuated Equilibrium Model (2003) and The Puzzle of Peace: Explaining the Rise of
Peace in the International System (2016). His methodological research
focuses on concepts and measurement along with set theoretic approaches,
including Social Science Concepts: A
User's Guide (2006 Princeton University Press), Explaining War and Peace: Case Studies and Necessary Condition
Counterfactuals, (2007 with Jack Levy), Politics,
Gender, and Concepts: Theory and Methodology (2008), A Tale of Two Cultures: Qualitative and Quantitative Research in the
Social Sciences (2012 with Jim Mahoney), and Multimethod Research, Causal Mechanisms, and Case Studies: The Research
Triad (2017).
James Goldgeier is a Professor in the School of International Service at American
University, where he served as dean from 2011-17, and is past president of
the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA).
Previously, he was a professor of political science and international affairs
at George Washington University. He also taught at Cornell University, and has
held a number of public policy appointments, including Director for Russian,
Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs on the National Security Council Staff, Whitney
Shepardson Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Henry A.
Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress, and Edward Teller National Fellow
at the Hoover Institution. In addition, he has held appointments at the Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars, Brookings Institution, and the Center
for International Security and Cooperation. From 2001-2005, he directed George
Washington University’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies.
He has authored or co-authored four books including: America Between the
Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11 (co-authored with Derek Chollet); Power and
Purpose: U.S. Policy toward Russia after the Cold War (co-authored with
Michael McFaul); and Not Whether But When: The U.S. Decision to Enlarge NATO.
He is the recipient of the Edgar S. Furniss book award in national and
international security and co-recipient of the Georgetown University Lepgold
Book Prize in international relations. He co-directs the Bridging the Gap
project, which fosters theoretically grounded policy-relevant research, and he
is co-editor of the Bridging the Gap book series with Oxford University Press.
Daragh Grant is a Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard
University. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of
Chicago in 2012. He is currently completing a book manuscript, tentatively
titled Experiments in Order: Sovereignty, Jurisdiction, and State Formation
in Early America, which focuses on the establishment of English settler
colonies in North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, bringing
together his research interests in state formation and colonialism. Daragh
conducted over two years of archival and primary research for his dissertation
and continues to return to the archives as he prepares his book manuscript for
publication. His work has been published in Comparative Studies in Society
and History and the William and Mary Quarterly, and is forthcoming
in Renaissance Quarterly.
F. Daniel Hidalgo is an Associate Professor
in the MIT Department of Political Science. His research focuses on
political institutions and elections in the developing world
and causal inference in the social sciences. His current
empirical research is on the electoral legacies of authoritarian
regimes, the effects of fraud-reducing electoral reforms,
and information and political accountability in Brazil’s northeast
region. He has published research in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics,
and other journals. He received a Ph.D. degree in Political Science
from the University of California, Berkeley in 2012.
Alan M. Jacobs
is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British
Columbia specializing in comparative political economy and public policy,
political behavior, and methodology. He is the author of Governing for the
Long Term: Democracy and the Politics of Investment (Cambridge U. Press,
2011), recipient of the APSA’s Gregory Luebbert Award for the Best Book in
Comparative Politics, the APSA’s Giovanni Sartori Award for the Best Book
Developing or Applying Qualitative Methods, and the IPSA’s Charles H. Levine
Prize for the Best Book in Comparative Policy and Administration. His research
has also appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal
of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, the
Annual Review of Political Science, and other venues. With Macartan
Humphreys, he is currently completing a book, Integrated Inferences, that
examines how process tracing and mixed-method causal inference can be grounded
in causal models. His ongoing substantive research examines citizens’ attitudes
towards policy tradeoffs over time and the interaction between economic
inequality and democratic accountability. Jacobs is, with Tim Büthe,
outgoing co-editor of Qualitative and
Multi-Method Research and co-chair
of the Steering Committee of the Qualitative Transparency Deliberations, both
sponsored by the APSA’s Qualitative and Multi-Method Research section. In 2017,
he was co-recipient of the QMMR section’s David Collier Mid-Career Achievement
Award.
Diana Kapiszewski is Associate Professor of Government at
Georgetown University. Her research interests include public law, comparative
politics, and research methods. Her book High Courts and Economic Governance
in Argentina and Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 2012) received the
APSA Law and Courts Section's C. Herman Pritchett Award. She has also co-edited
Consequential Courts: Judicial Roles in Global Perspective (Cambridge
University Press, 2013), Beyond High Courts: The Justice Complex in Latin
America (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019), and Concepts, Data, and
Methods in Comparative Law and Politics (Cambridge University Press,
forthcoming 2020). Her ongoing research includes projects examining
"constitutionalism with adjectives," institutions of electoral
governance in Latin America, and the architecture of accountability in Latin
America. In the area of research methods, Kapiszewski co-edits the Cambridge
University Press Methods for Social Inquiry book series, co-authored Field
Research in Political Science: Practices and Principles (Cambridge
University Press, 2015), and is co-authoring Managing Qualitative Data in
the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, under advance contract).
In 2013 was awarded the APSA Qualitative and Multi-Method Research section's
Mid-Career Achievement Award. Her work has appeared in the Annual Review of
Political Science, Latin American Politics and Society, Law and
Social Inquiry, Law & Society Review, Perspectives on
Politics, and PS: Political Science and Politics.
Sebastian Karcher is associate director of the Qualitative Data
Repository (www.qdr.org). His main interests are the integration of
good data practices into the scholarly workflow. A contributor to the Zotero
reference manager and the Citation Style Language, he is an advocate for tools
that aid scholars in these processes. He also works closely with groups such as
DataCite and Force11 on the implementation of data citation standards. Karcher
holds a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University. His work in
political science focuses on the political economy of business and labor as
well as measurement and conceptualization. For his dissertation he conducted
extensive fieldwork in Argentina and Germany (and he regrets not having better
guidelines on sharing potentially sensitive data before conducting his work).
His work has appeared in journals including International Studies Quarterly
and Socio-Economic Review.
Dessislava (Dessi)
Kirilova is a fellow and consultant at the Qualitative Data Repository (www.qdr.org), hosted by the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at Syracuse
University’s Maxwell School. In that capacity, she has assisted in shaping the
repository’s policies, acquisitions outreach, curatorial support for depositors
(including in dealing with human participants and copyright constraints), and
the processing and publication of all commissioned pilot projects. Her related
interests are in educating social science researchers in good data practices,
starting in the research planning stages. She is also a PhD candidate in
Political Science at Yale University. Her substantive work in the discipline
focuses on post-communist foreign policies, European integration and the
processes that lead to national identity formation, as well as elite
interviewing and archival historical approaches. For her dissertation she
engaged in both methods during extensive fieldwork in Bulgaria, Lithuania and
Poland, as well as in various EU institutions in Brussels, Belgium.
Marcus Kreuzer is Professor Political Science at Villanova
University. He has worked on the origins of European and post-communist party
systems as well as qualitative methodology. His first book was Institutions and Innovation: Voters,
Parties, and Interest Groups in the Consolidation of Democracy – France and
Germany 1870-1939 (Michigan 2001) and he is completing a book tentatively
titled the Grammar of Time: Using
Comparative Historical Analysis to Study the Past (Cambridge, forthcoming).
His articles have dealt with path dependency, conceptions of time, historical
exceptionalism, conceptualizations of historical change, and proper use of
historical evidence, and the nature of historical description. They have
appeared in the American Political
Science Review, World Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Central European History, Perspectives on Politics.
Jenn Larson
is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science
at Vanderbilt University. She received her Ph.D. in political
science from Harvard University in 2012, and her B.A. in both mathematics and
political science from Creighton University in 2006. Her research
explores how and why social networks affect political behavior in order to
explain outcomes such as protests, civil conflict, and informal
governance. Her theoretical work uses game theory and agent-based models
to isolate the importance of networks, while her empirical work focuses on
collecting new data to understand how social networks spread information and
motivate people to act in settings ranging from rural Uganda to urban
France. Her work has been published in journals including the American
Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political
Science, and the Journal of Politics.
Will Lowe
is a Senior Research Specialist in the Department of Politics and Lecturer in
Public and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School at
Princeton. Lowe is a political
methodologist specializing in statistical text analysis with applications to
legislative politics, international relations, social media, and central
banking. Before Princeton, Lowe was Senior Researcher at the Mannheim Centre
for Social Research (MZES) at the University of Mannheim. Prior to joining MZES
he was assistant professor in research methods at Maastricht University and has
held postdoctoral research positions at Trinity College, Dublin, the University
of Nottingham, and Harvard University. He has published on methodology in Political Analysis and International Organization, legislative politics in Legislative Studies Quarterly and Electoral Studies, on
international politics in China Quarterly and the Journal of Peace
Research, on public administration in European Union Politics, and
social media in Information, Communication & Society.
Cyanne Loyle is an
Associate Professor of Political Science at Indiana University and a Global
Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Loyle’s current research
focuses on transitional justice adopted during and after armed conflict. This
research has included fieldwork in Rwanda, Uganda, Nepal, Northern Ireland, and
Turkey. Her work has been funded by the NSF, the Norwegian Research Council,
and the US Institute of Peace and published in venues such as Conflict
Management and Peace Science, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of
Conflict Resolution, Journal of Human Rights, and Journal of Peace
Research. Additional information can be found on her website: www.cyanneloyle.com
Lauren M. MacLean is the Arthur F.
Bentley Chair and Professor of political science at Indiana
University-Bloomington. MacLean's research interests focus on the politics of
state formation, public service provision, and citizenship in Africa and in
American Indian/Alaska Native communities in the U.S. She has a book entitled Informal Institutions and Citizenship in
Rural Africa: Risk and Reciprocity in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire (Cambridge
University Press, 2010; winner of the APSA 2011 Sartori Book Award; finalist for
the ASA Herskovits Award) and an edited volume The Politics of Non-State Social Welfare in the Global South
(Cornell University Press, 2014), with Melani Cammett. She has also published
articles in a range of journals including Comparative
Political Studies, Comparative
Studies in Society and History, Environmental
and Resource Economics, the International
Journal of Public Administration, the Journal
of Development Studies, Journal of
Modern African Studies, Studies in
Comparative International Development,
and World Development. On research
methodology, MacLean has co-authored a book, Field Research in Political Science (Cambridge University Press,
2015), with Diana Kapiszewski and Ben Read. She
is the recipient of the 2016 David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award and the
2017 Carnegie Fellows award. Her research has been supported by grants,
including from the NSF, SSRC, RWJ Foundation, and the U.S. Department of
Education.
James Mahoney is Gordon Fulcher Professor of Decision-Making and Professor
of Political Science and Sociology at Northwestern University. He is a
comparative‐historical researcher with interests in national development,
political regimes, and methodology. He is the author of the prize‐winning
books,
Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative
Perspective (Cambridge
University Press, 2010) and The Legacies
of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America (Johns Hopkins University Press,
2001). His other books include Comparative
Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences (coedited with Dietrich Rueschemeyer;
Cambridge University Press, 2003), Explaining
Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency, and Power (coedited with Kathleen Thelen;
Cambridge University Press, 2010), and A Tale of Two
Cultures: Qualitative and Quantitative Research in the Social Science (with Gary Goertz; Princeton
University Press, 2012). Mahoney has been President or Chair of four
different Organized Sections of American Political Science Association and the
American Sociological Association. He has been Chair of Sociology at
Northwestern, and he is currently on the APSA Council. His most recent book is Advances in Comparative-Historical
Analysis (coedited with Kathleen Thelen, 2015).
Rochona Majumdar
is a historian of modern India. Her interests span histories of Indian cinema,
gender and marriage in colonial India, and Indian intellectual thought in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Majumdar’s first book, Marriage and
Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal (Durham: Duke
University Press, 2009; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009), challenges
the assumption that arranged marriage is an antiquated practice. During the
late colonial period Bengali marriage practices underwent changes that led to a
valorization of the large, inter-generational family as a revered, ‘ancient’,
social institution, with arranged marriage as the apotheosis of an ‘Indian’
tradition. Marriage
and Modernity documents the ways in which these newly embraced
‘traditions’—the extended family and arranged marriage—entered into competition
and conversation with other emerging forms of kinship such as the modern unit
of the couple, with both models participating in the new ‘marketplace’ for
marriages. Her second book, Writing Postcolonial History (London: Bloomsbury
Academic, 2010), is the first book to comprehensively analyze the impact of
postcolonial theory on history writing. It introduces readers to the political
and cultural contexts under which this mode of history writing first arose in
the Anglophone world. The book covers an array of historical writings ranging
from histories of the Middle Ages to contemporary empires, from settler
colonialism to issues of race, gender, and migration. Currently, Majumdar is
engaged in two projects. The first is a history of 'art-cinema' in India that
also analyzes art films as documents of postcolonial Indian history. The second
project is an intellectual history of key concepts such as society, civility,
and civilization in the Hindu and Muslim Bengali contexts during the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries.
William Mazzarella is the Neukom Family Professor and
Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the
author of Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary
India (Duke, 2003), Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass
Publicity (Duke 2013), and The Mana of Mass Society (Chicago,
2017). He is also the editor of K D Katrak: Collected Poems (Poetrywala,
2016) and the co-editor (with Raminder Kaur) of Censorship in South Asia:
Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction (Indiana, 2009).
Andrew Moravcsik is Professor of Politics and Director
of the European Union Program at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School.
He has authored over 125 scholarly publications, including four books, on
European integration, transatlantic relations, international relations,
international law, global human rights, and other topics. His analytical
history of the European Union, The Choice for Europe, has been called "the most
important work in the field" (American Historical Review). He developed and
elaborated “active citation,” a system of using digital technology to render
qualitative research more transparent. The National Science, Ford, Fulbright,
Olin and Krupp Foundations, as well as various universities and institutes,
have supported his research. He served as a trade negotiator for the US
Government, as special assistant to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic
of Korea, as press assistant for the European Commission, as editor of a
Washington foreign policy journal, and as a member of various policy
commissions. Over 150 of his commentaries and policy analyses have appeared in Foreign
Affairs, where he is Book Review Editor (Europe), Newsweek,
where he was Contributing Editor, and many other publications. He has been a
long-term visitor at research institutes in the US, France, Italy, Britain,
Spain and China. In 2011, Princeton University awarded him the Stanley Kelley
Award for Undergraduate Teaching. His reviews and commentary on classical
music, particularly opera, have appeared in Financial Times, New York Times, Opera News and
elsewhere; he also publishes scholarly research on history, sociology and
staging of opera. He holds a BA from Stanford, an MA from Johns Hopkins (SAIS),
a PhD from Harvard University, and has studied at German and French
universities. He lives in Princeton, NJ, with his wife Anne-Marie Slaughter,
and has two college-age sons, Michael Edward and Alexander. He is pleased to
have been part of the IQMR family since the beginning.
Timothy Pachirat is Assistant Professor in the
Department of Politics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His
research and teaching interests include comparative politics, the politics of
Southeast Asia, critical animal studies, the sociology of domination and
resistance, the political economy of dirty and dangerous work, and interpretive
and ethnographic research methods. Pachirat's work has received awards from the
American Political Science Association's Section on Qualitative Methods and
from the American Political Science Association's Labor Project. He is author
of Every
Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight (Yale
University Press, 2011), a political ethnography of immigrant labor on the kill
floor of an industrialized slaughterhouse that explores how violence that is
seen as both essential and repugnant to modern society is organized,
disciplined, regulated, and reproduced.
Jonnell Robinson
is an Associate Professor of Geography and has been the Director of the
Syracuse Community Geography Program at Syracuse University since 2005. Her
research and teaching interests include community-based and participatory
action research, and specifically Participatory GIS (Geographic Information
Systems). Robinson collaborates with grassroots and community-based
organizations to use geographic inquiry to better understand and address social
and economic disparities. Robinson is also interested in how and why community-based
organizations use geospatial technologies, as well as the limitations to these
approaches, in advancing grassroots action research agendas. She teaches
courses in community geography, geographic field methods, and advanced GIS. She
received a Ph.D. in Geography (2010) and a Master of Public Health (2003) from
the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Leah Rosenstiel is
a graduate student in Politics and Social Policy at Princeton University and is
affiliated with the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics in the Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Her research examines
American political institutions, with a focus on Congress. Leah received a B.A.
in Political Science from Carleton College in 2014. Prior to beginning her
graduate studies she worked as a research assistant on K-12 education policy at
the Congressional Research Service.
Elizabeth N. Saunders is an Associate Professor in the
School of Foreign Service and a core faculty member in the Security Studies
Program at Georgetown University. She is also a non-resident senior
fellow at the Brookings Institution. Previously, she was an Associate
Professor at George Washington University. Her research and teaching interests
focus on international security and U.S. foreign policy, including the
presidency and foreign policy, and the politics of using force. Her
book, Leaders
at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions, was published
in 2011 by Cornell University Press and won the 2012 Jervis-Schroeder Best Book
Award from APSA’s International History and Politics section. She has
previously been a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign
Relations; a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; a
postdoctoral fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard
University; a Brookings Institution Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies;
and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. She holds an
A.B. in physics and astronomy and astrophysics from Harvard College; an M.Phil.
in international relations from the University of Cambridge; and a Ph.D. in
political science from Yale University.
Frederic Schaffer is
a Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
His area of specialization is comparative politics with a geographic focus on
Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Substantively, he studies the meaning
and practice of democracy across cultures using the tools of ordinary
language philosophy and other language-based interpretive methods. He is author
of Elucidating Social Science
Concepts: An Interpretivist Guide (2016), The Hidden Costs of Clean Election Reform (2008), and Democracy in Translation:
Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture (1998). He also
edited Elections for Sale: The
Causes and Consequences of Vote Buying (2007).
Carsten Q. Schneider is
Professor of Political Science at Central European University (CEU). His
research and teaching interests focus on the study of political regime change
processes in different world regions and on comparative social science
methodology, especially set‐theoretic methods. He is author of The
Consolidation of Democracy in Europe and Latin America (Routledge,
2008), co‐author of Set‐Theoretic Methods for the Social Sciences (Cambridge
University Press, 2012), and of articles that appeared, among others, in Comparative
Political Studies, Democratization, European Journal
of Political Research, Political Analysis, Political Research Quarterly,
and Sociological Methods and Research. He was an elected member of
the Germany Academy of Young Scientists (2009-14) and a John F. Kennedy
Memorial Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard
University (2009-10). Since 2016, he is local Academic Convenor for the ECPR
Summer School in Methods and Techniques in Budapest. Over the past decade, he
has conducted dozens of methods workshops and seminars across Europe and
beyond.
Jason Seawright is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern
University. Professor Seawright's research interests include comparative
politics, with an emphasis on comparative political parties and on political
behavior; and methodology, particularly involving multi-method research designs
and issues of causal inference. He is the author of Party-System Collapse:
The Roots of Crisis in Peru and Venezuela. His research has been published
in Political Analysis, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative
Political Studies, and a range of other journals and edited volumes.
Alicia Simoni
is a psychotherapist in private practice in Northampton, Massachusetts. Her
clinical specialities include trauma, grief and loss, and
immigration/cross-cultural concerns. Alicia earned a Masters in Social Work
from the Smith College School for Social Work. She has subsequently
participated in the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) Fellowship program
as well the Division 39 (Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic
Psychology) Scholars Program. Prior to pursuing a career in psychotherapy,
Alicia earned a MA in International Peace Studies from the Kroc Institute of
International Peace Studies and spent nearly a decade working in the field of
international peacebuilding, with a specific focus on gender and women's
rights.
Eva Thomann is a senior lecturer in Politics at the University of
Exeter. Her research focuses on Public Policy, Public Administration, and
qualitative comparative research methods. Eva Thomann is an active user and
teacher of case-oriented and set-theoretic research design and methodology
which she has taught at numerous workshops, doctoral schools, and seminars. She
contributes to the development of pedagogical resources and other innovations
in the use and teaching of QCA. Eva is the first author of “Designing Research
with Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)” (2017, Sociological Methods and
Research) and the monograph “Customized implementation of European Union
food safety policy: United in diversity?” (Palgrave, 2019). Her research
appeared amongst others in the Journal of European Public Policy, the European
Journal of Political Research, the Journal of Public Administration
Research and Theory, Policy Studies Journal, Governance, and Public
Administration. She is a member of the steering
committee of the COMPArative Methods for Systematic cross-caSe analysis
(COMPASSS) network and co-chair of the Permanent Study Group on Public Policy
of the European Group for Public Administration. Eva was a 2016 Founders’
fellow of the American Society for Public Administration.
David Waldner is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at
the University of Virginia. He teaches courses on research design, qualitative
methodology, and comparative politics. His research interests are the political
and economic development of the post-colonial world and qualitative causal
inference. He is the author of State Building and Late Development and
his two current book projects are Democracy and Dictatorship in the
Post-Colonial World and Causality & Explanation in Political Science. He
received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Lisa
Wedeen is the Mary R. Morton
Professor of Political Science and the College and the Co-Director of the
Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago. Her
publications include Ambiguities
of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria (1999); "Conceptualizing
'Culture': Possibilities for Political Science" (2002); "Concepts and
Commitments in the Study of Democracy" (2004), Peripheral
Visions: Publics, Power and Performance in Yemen (2008), "Ethnography as an
Interpretive Enterprise" (2009), "Reflections on Ethnographic Work in
Political Science" (2010), and "Ideology and Humor in Dark Times:
Notes from Syria" (2013). She is the recipient of the David Collier
Mid-Career Achievement Award and an NSF fellowship. She is currently working on
a book about ideology, neoliberal autocracy, and generational change in
present-day Syria.