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Mary A. Clark School of Liberal Arts Dean's Office 102 Newcomb Hall Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70118 504-862-8305 (Off Mary A. Clark School of Liberal Arts Dean’s Office 102 Newcomb Hall Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70118 504-862-8305 (office) 504-717-6392 (cell) E-mail: [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D., Political Science, 1993, University of Wisconsin- Madison. M.A., Political Science, 1987, University of Wisconsin-Madison. B.A., Latin American Studies, 1984, Carleton College. UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University, 2014-present Interim Associate Dean for Finance and Planning, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University, July 2011-2012, 2013-2014 Associate Chair, Department of Political Science, 2009-2011, 2012-2013. Executive Director, Center for International Studies, Tulane University, August 2004-June 2006. Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, Tulane University, July 2002-July 2004. Program Coordinator, MacArthur Scholarship Program, Institute for Global Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 1991-May 1992. ACADEMIC POSITIONS Associate Professor, Tulane University, July 2000-present. Senior Associate Member, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, 2001-2002. Assistant Professor, Tulane University, July 1994-July 2000. Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University, July 1993-July 1994. Visiting Scholar, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Económicas and Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, University of Costa Rica, October 1989-March 1991. PUBLICATIONS Book Gradual Economic Reform in Latin America: The Costa Rican Experience (Albany: SUNY Press, 2001). Articles “Expert Advice and Noncommunicable Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean” Panoramas (Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh) published on-line February 23, 2016. “The New Left and Healthcare Reform in El Salvador” Latin American Politics and Society, 57:4 (Winter 2015): 97-118. “The Meanings of Universal Health Care in Latin America” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 40:1 (February 2015): 221-226. “The Final Frontiers of Health Care Universalization in Costa Rica and Panama,” Bulletin of Latin American Research (first published on-line June 1, 2013) 33:2 (April 2014): 125-139. “The DR-CAFTA and the Costa Rican Health Sector: A Push toward Privatization?” The Latin Americanist 55:3 (2011): 3-23. “Access to Care versus Access to Coverage: What Can We Learn from the Louisiana State Hospital Model?” World Medical & Health Policy, 2:1 (2010): 107-125. “Rebuilding the Past: Health Care Reform in Post-Katrina Louisiana,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 35:5 (2010): 743-769. “Health Reform, Doctors, and the Physician Labor Market in Costa Rica,” The Latin Americanist 49:1 (Fall 2005): 125-148. "Une réforme économique graduelle," Volcans (Paris) no. 49 (Autumn 2002): 14-15. “Transnational Alliances and Development Policy in Latin America: The Case of Nontraditional Export Promotion in Costa Rica," Latin American Research Review 32:2 (Spring 1997): 71-97. "Nontraditional Export Promotion in Costa Rica: Sustaining Export-Led Growth," Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 37:2 (Summer 1995): 181-224. "Costa Rica's Export Strategy," Hemisphere (Summer 1992): 10-13. Brad Barham, Mary Clark, Elizabeth Katz, and Rachel Schurman, "Non-Traditional Agricultural Exports in Latin America," Latin American Research Review 27:2 (Spring 1992): 43-82. Book Chapters “Health Sector Reform in Costa Rica: Reinforcing a Public System,” in Robert Kaufman and Joan Nelson, eds., Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives: Social Sector Reform, Democratization, and Globalization in Latin America (Woodrow Wilson International Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004): 189-216. “Costa Rica: Portrait of an Established Democracy,” in Roderic Ai Camp, ed., Citizen Views of Democracy in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001): 73-89. Timothy J. Power and Mary A. Clark, “Does Trust Matter? Interpersonal Trust and Democratic Values in Chile, Costa Rica, and Mexico,” in Roderic Ai Camp, ed., Citizen Views of Democracy in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001): 51-72. "Kissinger Commission," Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995): 351. Reviews Review of Hoping to Help: The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering, in Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, 42:2 (April 2017): 409-411. Review of Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America, in Latin American Politics and Society, 53:2 (Summer 2011): 181-84. Review of National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada, in Perspectives on Political Science, 38:2 (March 2009). Review of Retiring the State and Health Care Reform in Central America, in Latin American Politics and Society, 46:3 (Fall 2004): 149-53. WORKS IN PROGRESS (with Claudina Cayetano) “Sub-Regional Organizations and Mental Health: Improving Suicide Surveillance in Central America.” Out of the Shadows: Mental Health’s Climb up the Global Development Agenda, Multilateral Institutions, and National Responses (book-length project) RESEARCH GRANTS (Tulane) Murphy Center for Political Economy, seed grant for “Suicide Policy in Central America,” summer 2017. Tulane University Research Enhancement Fund, Phase II, project title: “The Politics of Redesigning Southeast Louisiana’s Health Care System,” 2007-2009. Fulbright Fellowship and Scholars Program, lecturing/research award, University of Chile/University of Development, Santiago, Chile, fall 2004 (declined). Mellon Foundation-Tulane University, grant for faculty research in Latin America, summer 1996. Mellon Foundation-Tulane University, grant for faculty research in Latin America, summer 1994. MacArthur Foundation University Consortium Project award, summer 1994 (declined). MacArthur Foundation-University of Wisconsin dissertation fellowships, 1989-1991. Institute for the Study of World Politics dissertation research grant, 1989-90. Organization of American States dissertation fellowship, 1989-90. University of Wisconsin Ibero-American Studies pre-dissertation research grant, summer 1987. University of Wisconsin Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships, 1985-87. OTHER AWARDS Mortar Board Recognition for Excellence in Teaching, Tulane University, 1998-99. Bernstein Newcomb College Fellowship, Tulane University, 1996-97. CONFERENCE PAPERS “Modernizing Mental Health Care in Latin America: Explaining Variation in Deinstitutionalization,” International Studies Association meeting, Baltimore (MD), February 2017. “Regionalism, Health Policy, and Noncommunicable Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: SICA and CARICOM,” 2016 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, New York (NY), May 2016. “International Institutions and Strategy Regarding Noncommunicable Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean,” International Studies Association meeting, Atlanta (GA), March 2016. “International Institutions and the Governance of Non-Communicable Diseases in Latin America,” 2015 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan (PR), May 2015. “Universalizing Health Care Coverage in Costa Rica, Panama, and the Dominican Republic,” prepared for the 2012 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, May 2012. “Access to Care versus Access to Coverage: What Can We Learn from the Louisiana State Hospital Model?” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, Canada, September, 2009 “Rebuilding the Past: Health Care Reform in Post-Katrina Louisiana,” presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, April , 2008. "The Medical Profession, the State, and Health Reform in Costa Rica," presented at the International Studies Association meeting, Honolulu, March 2005. "The Medical Profession, the State, and Health Reform in Chile and Costa Rica," presented at the American Political Science Association meeting, Philadelphia, August 2003. “Costa Rican Health Reform in Comparative Perspective,” presented at the Southern Political Science Association meeting, Savannah, November 2002. “Social Sector Reform in Costa Rica,” Workshop on Contemporary Costa Rica, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, UK, May 2002. “Health Sector Reform in Costa Rica: Reinforcing a Public System,” presented at the “Workshop on the Politics of Health Sector Reforms in Latin America,” Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington, D.C., April 2002. Timothy J. Power and Mary A. Clark, “Does Trust Matter? Interpersonal Trust and Democratic Values in Three Latin American Nations,” presented at the conference “Democracy and Development,” Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, May 1999. “Costa Rica: Portrait of an Established Democracy,” presented at the conference “Democracy through Latin American Lenses,” Tulane University, New Orleans, January 1999. “The Politics of Reforming Costa Rica’s National Health Care System,” presented at the Latin American Studies Association meeting, Chicago, September 1998. "Social Reform in Costa Rica: Health and Education Policy," presented at the International Studies Association meeting, Toronto, March 1997. "Central America, NAFTA, and the Caribbean Basin Trade Security Act: A Defensive Strategy," presented at the Latin American Studies Association meeting, Washington, D.C., September 1995. "The CINDE Coalition and Nontraditional Export Promotion in Costa Rica," presented at the Conference on Export Promotion Policies in the Developing
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