Andrew Bramsen

Andrew Bramsen 217 O’Shaughnessy Hall (574) 229-6087 Notre Dame, IN 46556 [email protected]

Education University of Notre Dame Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science (2010) M.A., Political Science (2009) Examination Fields: Comparative Politics, Political Theory Committee: A. James McAdams (co-advisor), Emad Shahin (co-advisor), Michael Coppedge, Naunihal Singh

Baylor University M.A., International Relations (2004)

University of South Carolina Aiken B.A., Political Science (2002, summa cum laude)

Publications Andrew Bramsen (with Robert Brathwaite), “Reconceptualizing Church and State: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Separation of Religion and State on Democracy,” forthcoming (August 2011), Politics and Religion.

Andrew Bramsen, “The Religion and State Dataset,” APSA-CP, Newsletter of the Organized Section in Comparative Politics of the American Political Science Association, Volume 19, Issue 2, Summer 2008, pp. 24-26.

Conference Presentations Andrew Bramsen, “Will the Real Islamist Political Parties Please Step Forward?” at the annual conference of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, January 7-9, 2010.

Andrew Bramsen, “C. S. Lewis’s Eschatological Debt to Plato,” at the Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, Houston, Texas, October 1-3, 2009.

Andrew Bramsen, “One Ring, Two Dark Lords, Seven Horcruxes and an Augustinian Conception of Evil,” at the annual conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 2-5, 2009.

Andrew Bramsen, “Senegalese Exceptionalism: History, Agency and African Political Development,” at the annual conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 3-6, 2008, and at the annual conference of the South Carolina Political Science Association, Clinton, South Carolina, February 24, 2007.

Andrew Bramsen, “Machiavelli in the Modern World: A Case Study Analysis of the Effectiveness of his Approach,” at the annual conference of the Georgia Political Science Association, Savannah, Georgia, November 10-12, 2005.

Academic Work Experience 2009-2010. University of Notre Dame, Editorial Intern at the Review of Politics. Duties include conducting preliminary reviews of article submissions and working with the book review editor.

2007-2009. University of Notre Dame, Teaching Assistant in Political Science. Duties included leading discussions, grading, guest lecturing and meeting with students for the following courses:  Introduction to International Relations (Fall 2007)  Introduction to Comparative Politics (Spring, Fall 2008)  Introduction to Political Theory (Spring 2009)

2007-2009. University of Notre Dame, Research Assistant.  Classified coups for a database of all coups worldwide from 1945-2005. Did background research and wrote memos for individual coup cases with a particular focus on coups in African and Middle Eastern countries. Also performed final quality control check of the entire database to make sure multiple research assistants had coded cases consistently over time (2007, 2009).  Recruitment assistant in faculty hiring searches for Political Science department and Ford Foundation (2007, 2009).  Coded regime change in Colombia for book project (2008).

2002-2004. Baylor University, Teaching Assistant in Political Science. Duties included grading, guest lecturing and meeting with students for the following courses:  American Constitutional Development (Fall 2002-Spring 2004)  Social World I (Fall 2003)  Social World II (Spring 2003, Spring 2004)

2002. University of South Carolina Aiken, Interim Director of Business and Social Science Research Lab. Duties included assisting students with assignments and performing data entry.

Awards and Fellowships 2011-2012. University of Notre Dame, Loescher Teaching Fellow.

2010-2011. University of Notre Dame, Political Science Department Dissertation Year Fellowship. 2010. University of Notre Dame, Kaneb Center Striving for Excellence in Teaching Certificate.

2010. University of Notre Dame, Political Science Department Grant to attend Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Methods Research.

2008. University of Notre Dame, Kellogg Institute Seed Money Grant.

2006-2007. University of Notre Dame, Graduate Student Fellowship.

2003-2004. Baylor University, Graduate School Award for Graduate Assistant work on Political Science Department website.

2002-2003. Baylor University, Stormie Schott Award for Outstanding Graduate Student in International Relations.

2001-2002. University of South Carolina Aiken, Outstanding Student in Political Science.

2001-2002. Who’s Who Among American College Students.

2001-2002. University of South Carolina Aiken Department of History, Political Science and Philosophy Scholarship.

2001.2002. University of South Carolina Aiken Library Scholarship.

2000.2002. University of South Carolina Aiken President’s List.

1999.2000. University of South Carolina Aiken Dean’s List.

1999-2002. South Carolina LIFE Scholar.

University Service at the University of Notre Dame 2009-2010. Graduate Student Union President.

2009-2010. Graduate student representative on Graduate Council.

2009-2010. Graduate student representative on the Graduate School International Agreements and Commencement Committees.

2008-2009. Political Science Department representative to the Graduate Student Union.

2007-2008. Comparative Politics Representative to the Political Science Graduate Student Organization. Course Lectures “Armed or Unarmed Prophets? The Machiavellianism of Ayatollah Khomeini and Juan Perón in Comparative Perspective” (November 23, 2009)

“Algeria: Radical Islam and the Process of Elections” (April 21, 2009)

“Challenges for Democracy in Mali and Senegal” (December 3, 2008)

“The Meaning and Measure of Political Culture” (March 10, 2008)

Service to the Discipline 2010. Southern Political Science Association’s Annual Convention, Chair and Discussant, “Elections Around the World” panel.

2010. Southern Political Science Association’s Annual Convention, Chair and Discussant, “Party Change in Comparative Perspective” panel.

Languages French (proficient), Wolof (intermediate), Arabic (beginner)

Professional Memberships American Political Science Association Midwest Political Science Association American Institute of Maghrib Studies Intercollegiate Studies Institute

References Available upon request.