Catherine E. Weaver

Associate Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs Distinguished Scholar and Research Coordinator, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law The University of Texas at Austin 2315 Red River Street, SRH 3.358 Austin, Texas 78712 email: [email protected] Strauss Center main phone: (512) 471-6267 Office Phone: (512) 232-3443

Education

Ph.D., Political Science May 2003 University of Wisconsin, Madison

BA, Political Science and Russian April 1994 University of Michigan

Academic Positions

Associate Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, September 2010 – present University of Texas at Austin

Assistant Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, January 2009 – August 2010 University of Texas at Austin

Assistant Professor of Political Science August 2002 – December 2008 University of Kansas

Research Fellow, Brookings Institution August 2001-2002 Washington, D.C.

Publications

Books:

Catherine Weaver. 2008. Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

~Co-recipient of the Chadwick Alger Prize for best book on International Organizations and Multilateralism, International Studies Association, 2009. (Co-recipient with Benjamin Schiff)

~Winner of the Society of Policy Scientists 2009 Harold D. Lasswell Prize.

Catherine Weaver and Nicola Phillips, eds. 2010. International Political Economy and the Transatlantic Divide. London, UK: Routledge Press.

1 Articles and Book Chapters (* = in peer review journal or reviewed as part of book project):

*Catherine Weaver and Susan Park. Forthcoming 2012.“The Anatomy of IO Agency: Anticorruption and Environmental Reform at the World Bank.” In Joel Oestreich, ed. Agency in International Organizations. London: Routledge Press.

*Catherine Weaver. 2010. "The Politics of Performance Evaluation: Independent Evaluation at the International Monetary Fund" Review of International Organizations, September 2010, pp.365-385.

*Catherine Weaver. 2010. “The Strategic Social Construction of the World Bank’s Gender and Development Policy Norm,” in Susan Park and Antje Vetterlein, eds. Owning Development: Creating Global Policy Norms in the IMF and World Bank. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Catherine Weaver. 2010. “Reforming the World Bank,” in Jennifer Clapp and Rorden Wilkinson, eds, Governing Global Poverty and Inequality. London: Routledge Press, pp.112-132.

*Catherine Weaver. 2010. “Constructing Development: The World Bank’s Good Governance Agenda,” in Rawi Abdelal, Mark Blyth and Craig Parsons, eds. Constructing the International Economy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, pp.47-67.

Catherine Weaver. 2010. “Development Aid.” World At Risk: A Global Issues Sourcebook. Washington, D.C: Congressional Quarterly Publication, 2nd edition, pp.93-117.

*Catherine Weaver. 2009. “IPE’s Split Brain.” Contribution to special issue on “The British School of IPE,” Nicola Phillips, ed., New Political Economy, vol.14, no.3 (September). (Reprinted in Phillips and Weaver 2010)

*Catherine Weaver. 2009. “An IPE of Our Making.” Introduction to special issue “Not So Quiet on the Western Front: The American School of IPE.” Review of International Political Economy, vol.16, no.1: 1- 5. (Special Issue Editor)

*Catherine Weaver and Susan Park. 2007. “Poverty Alleviation and Human Development in the 21st Century: The Role of the World Bank,” Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, vol.13, no.4 (October-December): 461-469.

*Catherine Weaver. 2007. “The World’s Bank and the Bank’s World,” Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, vol.13, no.4 (October-December): 493-512.

Catherine Weaver. 2007. “Reforming the World Bank: Promises and Pitfalls.” Brown Journal of World Affairs, vol.13, no.2 (Spring/Summer): 55-65.

*Daniel Nielson, Michael Tierney and Catherine Weaver. 2006. “Bridging the Rationalist-Constructivist Divide: Engineering Change at the World Bank.” Journal of International Relations and Development, vol.9, no.2: 107-139.

*Catherine Weaver and Ralf Leiteritz. 2005. “’Our Poverty is a World Full of Dreams’: Reforming the World Bank.” Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, vol.11, no.3 (Summer): 369-388.

Catherine Weaver. 2002. “Development Aid.” World At Risk: A Global Issues Sourcebook (Washington, D.C: Congressional Quarterly Publication): pp.110-133. Winner, Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2002.

2 Minor Works:

Catherine Weaver and Christian Peratsakis. 2011. “Aid for Climate Change Adaptation in Africa: How Much Do We Really Know?” Policy brief for the Climate Change and African Political Stability Program, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security & Law, The University of Texas at Austin.

Catherine Weaver. 2011. “Comment on Michaelowa and Michaelowa’s “Climate Business for Poverty Reduction? The Role of the World Bank.” Review of International Organizations, June 2011.

Catherine Weaver and Christian Peratsakis. 2010. “International Development Assistance for Climate Change Adaptation in Africa: The Aid Scramble.” Policy brief for the Climate Change and African Political Stability Program, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security & Law, The University of Texas at Austin.

Catherine Weaver. 2007. “League of Nations,” in William Darity, ed. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. New York: Macmillan.

Catherine Weaver. 2006. Review of Paths to a Green World by Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne, Australian Journal of International Relations, June 2006.

Works Under Contract

Catherine Weaver, Michael Lipson and Michael Mosser. Forthcoming. The Theory and Practice of International Organizations. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. Expected publication June 2013.

Manuella Moschella and Catherine Weaver, eds. Handbook of Global Economic Governance. Under contract with Routledge, expected publications January 2013.

“The Global Governance of Aid,” for Nicola Phillips and Anthony Payne, eds. Handbook of the International Political Economy of Governance. Under contract with Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2012.

Works in Progress:

Open Development: Global Transparency and the Politics of Aid Data. Book manuscript in progress.

“Past the Tipping Point: Norm Dynamics in International Aid Transparency” (with Christian Peratsakis), for inclusion in Alex Betts and Phil Orchard (eds), Implementation and World Politics: How International Norms Change Practice.

“Between the Covers: How IR Looks in the Books” and “IPE: A Divided Discipline” (with Jason Sharman).

“The Culture Complex and the Study of International Organizations.” Paper to be presented at Northwestern University, Workshop on The Culture of International Organizations, April 2012.

“A Pragmatic Turn for International Political Economy,” Framework essay (with Thomas Oatley) for AGORA workshop on Pragmatism in IPE, October 2012, Austin, Texas.

3 Fellowships/Grants

Core Researcher, Minerva Program Grant on “Climate Change and African Political 2009-2015 Stability (CCAPS),” United States Department of Defense. ($7.6 million)

The Paradox of Accountability: Transparency, Evaluation, and the IO Learning 2009-2010 Curve. Research supported by the LBJ School of Public Affairs, Policy Research Institute, Multi-year Project in International Affairs ($15,000)

Co-Principal Investigator (with Dan Bernstein and Andrea Greenhoot), “Strategic 2008-2009 Improvement of Undergraduate Education in the University of Kansas.” Spencer and Teagle Foundations ($80,000)

American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant ($5,000) Summer 2008

University of Kansas General Faculty Research Fund ($8,250) 2006-2007

University of Kansas Center for Teaching Excellence, Faculty Seminar Grant Fall 2005

University of Kansas Policy Research Institute, Grant for Spring Speakers Series Spring 2005 On Global Development ($5,000)

University of Kansas Center for Teaching Excellence Teaching Grant ($750) Summer 2004

University of Kansas Office of International Programs, Grant for Internationalizing Summer 2004 Curriculum ($850)

University of Kansas Policy Research Institute Faculty Fellowship ($5,000) Summer 2004

University of Kansas New Faculty General Research Fund Grant ($8,000) Summer 2004

University of Kansas Policy Research Institute Workshop Grant ($5,000) 2003-2004

International Studies Association Workshop Grant ($7,000) 2003-2004

Brookings Institution Research Fellowship, Foreign Policy Studies 2001-2002

Institute for the Study of World Politics Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999-2000

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Russian Language 1998-1999 University of Wisconsin, Madison

IREX Dissertation Research Fellowship (declined) 1998-1999

Fulbright-Hays Grant, Moscow International University, Russia Spring 1998

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Polish Language 1995-1996 University of Wisconsin, Madison

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Polish Language Summer 1995 Indiana University, Bloomington

Otto Graf Undergraduate Research Opportunities Fellowship, University of Michigan 1991-1992

4 University of Michigan Alumni Association Scholarship 1990-1994

Honors and Awards

Visiting Scholar, George Washington University Institute for Global and International 2011 Studies, Summer 2011.

Chadwick Alger Book Prize, International Studies Association 2009

Harold D. Lasswell Prize, Society of Policy Scientists 2009

Fellow, American Assembly Next Generation Project 2007, 2010, 2011

Silver Anniversary Chancellor’s Teaching Award, University of Kansas 2006

J. Michael Young Academic Advisor Award, University of Kansas 2004

Honorary Research Fellow, Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin 2000-2001

Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin Department of Political Science Spring 1997

Phi Beta Kappa, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Spring 1993

Selected Invited Presentations

“IPE’s Faultlines” and “The State of International Relations.” Invited presentations at the Institute of International Relations (IIR), National Cheng-Chi Univ (NCCU), Taipei, Taiwan, and National Chung Hsing Univ (NCHU), Taichung, Taiwan. October 2011.

“Tracking Development Aid: Innovations in Data Visualization and Prospects for Tracking Aid for Climate Change Adaptation.” Presentation at the U.S. State Department Tech@State event, 23 September 2011.

“On Pragmatism and Being Useful.” IGIS Workshop on Pragmatism and IR, George Washington University, May 2011.

“Between the Covers: How IR Looks in the Books.” Presentation at George Washington University Institute for Global and International Studies, April 2011.

“Past the Tipping Point? Norms Dynamics in International Aid Transparency.” Presentation to the PIPES Seminar, University of Chicago, April 2011.

“From Crisis to Change: Reforming the IMF and World Bank” (with Jeff Chwieroth). Second annual workshop of the Alliance on Governance Research and Analysis, Brisbane, Australia, January 2011.

Invited Discussant, Egon Sohmen Memorial Conference on “The Political Economy of International Financial Institutions,” 14-16 June 2010, Tubingen, Germany.

“The World Bank: Global Governor in Crisis?” Invited presentation to the Sociological Association of Socio-Economics (SASE) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, June 24-26, 2010.

5 Invited Discussant, “The International Politics of the Financial Crisis.” Georgetown University Mortara Center for International Studies, Washington, D.C., 6-7 May 2010.

“Constructing the World Economy: The World Bank’s Governance and Anticorruption Agenda,” Presentation at the Watson Institute, Brown University, April 2010.

“The Great Divide: American versus British Schools of IPE.” Roundtable presentation (chair) at the University of Warwick on 14 December 2009 and the British International Studies Association Annual Meeting, University of Leicester, UK 15 December 2009. [With Benjamin Cohen, Michael Tierney, Phil Cerny, Nicola Phillips, and Rorden Wilkinson] “The Politics of IO Accountability: Transparency and Evaluation in the International Monetary Fund.” Invited presentation to the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University, 5 November 2009.

“In the Heart of Darkness? Climate Change, Political Fragility and Aid in Africa,” Presentations at Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia) and Australia National University (Canberra), 19-28 August 2009.

“IPE’s Split Brain: Understanding the Transatlantic Divide.” Presentation at the University of Sydney, Australia, 27 August 2009

“The World Bank’s Hypocrisy Trap.” Presentation to the Center for Global Development, Washington, D.C., 24 June 2009.

“IPE’s Split Brain: The American versus British School of International Political Economy.” Invited presentation at the Copenhagen Business School, 12 January 2009.

“The Future of IPE.” Invited participation in roundtable discussion, International Political Economy Society Annual Conference, 18-19 November 2008, University of Pennsylvania. [Other roundtable participants: Jeffrey Frieden, Judith Goldstein, Rawi Abdelal, Benjamin Cohen and Mark Blyth]

“The IO Learning Curve: The Politics of Performance Evaluation in the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.” Invited presentation to the book workshop on IO Performance, led by Tamar Gutner (American University) and Alex Thompson (Ohio State University). Annual International Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, March 26-29, 2008.

“Agency within IOs: Norm Entrepreneurship and Strategic Advocacy in the World Bank’s Gender Work.” Invited presentation to the book workshop on Owning Development, led by Susan Park and Antje Vetterlein. Annual International Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, March 26-29, 2008.

“The Anatomy of Autonomy: The Case of the World Bank.” Invited presentation to the book workshop on IO Agency, led by Joel Oestreich (Drexel University). Annual International Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, March 26-29, 2008.

“The Ethnographic Approach to IOs: Promises and Pitfalls of Doing Research in the Belly of the Beast.” Presentation at the Copenhagen Business Institute, workshop on “The Business of International Organizations,” Copenhagen, Denmark, November 22-25, 2007.

“Gender Mainstreaming Against the Tide: Norm Entrepreneurs Inside the World Bank.” Presentations to the University of Kansas Department of Public Administration, 16 April 2007 and the University of Kansas Sociology Department, 26 April 2007.

“The Social Construction of the Good Governance Agenda: A Battle of Development Ideas in the World Bank.” Paper presented at Harvard University, book workshop for Constructing the World Economy, 26 February 2005.

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“The World Bank’s Learning Curve.” Workshop for Researchers on the World Bank. Budapest, Hungary. 1-2 April 2005.

Conference Papers and Participation

“Between the Covers: How IR Looks in the Books.” With Jason Sharman. Paper presented at the TRIP workshop, ISA Annual Convention, Montreal, CA, April 2011.

“Past the Tipping Point: Norms Dynamics in International Aid Transparency.” With Christian Peratsakis. Paper presented at the ISA Annual Convention, Montreal, CA, April 2011.

Panelist, IPE Editors Roundtable, ISA Annual Convention, Montreal, CA, April 2011.

Co-organizer and Discussant, Alliance on Governance Research & Analysis (AGORA), Workshop on “Knowledge Networks and Policy Communities in the Global Political Economy,” 21-23 June 2010, Watson Institute, Brown University.

Discussant, Egon Sohmen Memorial Conference on “The Political Economy of International Financial Institutions,” 14-16 June 2010, Tubingen, Germany.

Discussant, “The International Politics of the Financial Crisis.” Georgetown University Mortara Center for International Studies, 6-7 May 2010.

“The Paradox of Accountability: Transparency, Evaluation, and the IO Learning Curve.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, 17-20 February 2010.

Chair, Panel on “Policy Practice and Paradigm Shifts During Financial Crisis,” Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, 17-20 February 2010.

“Independent Evaluation in the International Monetary Fund: A Paradox of Accountability?” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, CA, 4 September 2009.

“Mission Impossible?: Teaching Critical Analytical and Writings Skills in Large Lecture Introduction to International Relations Courses,” Co-authored paper with Baris Kesgin, Alexandra Innes and Ben Lampe, to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, CA, 4 September 2009.

Discussant, Cornell University Press Book Manuscript Workshop (for Kathryn Lavelle’s manuscript on Legislating for International Organizations: US Congress and the Bretton Woods Institutions), University of Waterloo, CA, 7-8 May 2009.

Discussant, PhD Workshop on World Bank Research, Washington, D.C., 28 April 2009.

“The Politics of IO Performance: The Curious Case of the IMF Independent Evaluation Office,” Paper presented at the ISA Annual Meeting, February 2009, New York.

“The Anatomy of Autonomy: The Strategic Social Construction of the World Bank’s Anticorruption Agenda.” Paper presented at the Panel on International Organizations: Solving Global Problems. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 28-31 August 2008, Boston, MA and ISA Annual Meeting, February 2009, New York.

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Chair, Panel on The Political Economy of the World Bank and IMF. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 28-31 August 2008, Boston, MA.

Roundtable Participant, “International Organizations as Agents: Connecting Theory to Practice with Empirical Cases.” Annual International Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, March 26-29, 2008.

Discussant, Panel on Seeing Like an International Organization. (Chairs: Andre Broom and Leonard Seabrooke). Annual International Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, March 26-29, 2008.

“Organized Hypocrisy in the United Nations and World Bank.” (with Michal Lipson). Paper presented at the Annual International Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, March 26-29, 2008.

“Mainstreaming - Against the Tide: Norm Entrepreneurship and Strategic Agency in the World Bank's Gender Agenda.” Paper presented to the International Political Economy Society Conference, Stanford University, November 9-10, 2007.

“Debating Development: Norm Entrepreneurship and Strategic Agency in the World Bank’s Governance Agenda.” Paper presented at the Annual International Studies Association Conference, Chicago, March 1- 4, 2007.

Discussant, Panel on Organizational Theory and the Study of IOs. Annual International Studies Association Conference, Chicago, March 1-4, 2007.

“The Hypocrisy of International Organizations.” Paper presented at the International Political Economy Society Conference, Princeton University, November 17-18, 2006. “The IO Hypocrisy Trap: Explaining the Rhetoric and Reality of the World Bank.” Paper presented at the ISA Annual Conference 2006, San Diego, California. Panel on International Institutions and the Hypocrisy Trap.

“The World’s Bank and the Bank’s World: Toward a Gross Anatomy of the World Bank’s Development Paradigms.” Paper presented at the ISA Annual Conference 2006, San Diego, California.

Chair, presenter and discussant, panel on The Sociology and Ethics of Global Development Knowledge. ISA Annual Conference 2006, San Diego, CA.

Chair and Discussant, Panel on Global Governance: Critical and Alternative Viewpoints. ISA Annual Conference 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii.

“Theoretical Synthesis in the Study of IOs.” Co-authored with Michael Tierney. Paper prepared for the ISA Annual Conference 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii.

“The Destructive Discourses of the WTO and World Bank.” Co-Authored with Darrah McCracken. Paper prepared for ISA Annual Conference 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii.

“IO Change and Theoretical Synthesis.” Co-authored paper (with Michael Tierney and Dan Nielson). Presented at the International Studies Association, Montreal, March 2004.

Co-editor and chair, workshop on Theoretical Synthesis in the Study of International Organizations, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C., 6 February 2004.

Co-organizer and chair, conference on The Theory and Practice of International Organizations. Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 5 February 2004.

8 "Rethinking IO Reform: Staffing Changes and Bureaucratic Reform Within Multilateral Development Banks.” Co-authored paper (with Michael Tierney and Dan Nielson) presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, September 2003.

“The Changing Composition of World Bank Staff: Screening and Selection as a Means of Agency Control.” Co-authored paper (with Michael Tierney and Dan Nielson) presented at the International Studies Association Annual International Conference, Budapest, Hungary, June 2003.

“Principles and Principals? Prospects for Theoretical Synthesis in the Study of International Organization.” Co-chair (with Michael Tierney) of a roundtable panel at the International Studies Association Annual International Conference, Budapest, Hungary, June 2003. Panelists include Michael Barnett, Frank Schimmelfennig, Duncan Snidal, and Roland Vaubel, and Celeste Wallander.

“Dissolving Disputes and Building Bridges: Exploring IO Behavior and Change.” Paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Conference, February 2003, Portland, Oregon.

“Our Poverty is a World Full of Dreams: The Tenacity of Organizational Culture and Reform in the World Bank.” Co-authored with Ralf Leiteritz. Paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Conference, March 2002, New Orleans.

Coordinator and Discussant, MacArthur Consortium Summer Institute on New Dimensions in Human Rights. June 21-24, 2001, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

“Russia is Not the Anomaly: The Organizational Culture and Behavior of the World Bank.” Paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Conference, February 2001, Chicago.

Coordinator and Discussant, MacArthur Consortium Graduate Student Workshop on Work and Social Citizenship in a Global Economy. November 9, 2000, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

“The Discourse of Law and Economic Development: A World Bank Perspective.” Paper presented at the MacArthur Consortium Conference on the Changing Role of Law in Emerging Markets and New Democracies, March 24-26, 2000, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

“The World Bank and the Creation of a Russian Rule of Law.” Paper presented at the MacArthur Consortium Summer Institute, June 1999, Stanford University, Palo Alto.

“In Neglect of the Political: Institutional Change, the World Bank, and Russian Legal Reform.” Paper presented at the Law and Society Annual Conference, May 27-30, 1999, Chicago.

Professional Service

National and International Service:

Co-founder, Alliance on Governance Research and Analysis (AGORA). (with Len Seabrooke, Mark Blyth, Jason Sharman and Ole Jacob Sending.

Co-editor, Review of International Political Economy (January 2007-present).

Editorial Board, Routledge / University of Warwick Studies in Globalisation book series (January 2009- present).

Editorial Advisory Board, Poverty and Public Policy (August 2008-present).

9 Advisory Board Member for the New Millennium Books in International Studies, Rowman & Littlefield Press. (August 2008-present).

Chadwick Alger Book Prize Committee, International Organization Section, International Studies Association, Fall 2009-Spring 2010.

Member-at-Large, Executive Committee, and Finkelstein Paper Award Committee Member, International Organization Section, International Studies Association, 2007-2008.

Program Chair for the International Organization Section, International Studies Association Annual Conference, 2007.

Reviewer of journal articles / book manuscripts for: American Political Science Review, Conflict Management and Peace Studies, Global Environmental Politics, Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, Governance, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Journal of International Relations and Development, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Perspectives on Politics, Poverty and Public Policy, Review of International Organizations, Review of International Political Economy, Review of International Studies, Socio-Economic Review, Blackwell Publishing (John Wiley & Sons), Broadview Press, Central European University Press, Rowman & Littlefield Press, University of Toronto Press, Routledge Press.

Reviewer for the 2005 Grawemeyer Award for Improving World Order.

Reviewer for the 2005 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. (Theme of conference: “International Organizations and Global Environmental Governance”).

Reviewer for U.S. National Science Foundation and Canadian Social Science Research Council, 2007.

Service - The University of Texas, LBJ School of Public Affairs (January 2009-Present):

Graduate Advisor, MA Program in Global Policy Studies, June 2010-present. Budget Council Teaching Review Committee Washington Program Committee International Partnerships Committee Tenure Process Review Committee, January 2011-present Faculty Recruitment Committee Chair, Robert S. Strauss Center, June 2010-present. Search Committee, LBJ School of Public Affairs (multiple searches), Fall 2009-Spring 2010; Fall 2010- Spring 2011; Fall 2011-Spring 2012. Research Coordinator, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2009-present. Search Committee, LBJ School of Public Affairs (multiple searches), Spring 2009-Spring 2010. Crook Fellowship Award Committee, April 2009-present.

Service - University of Kansas (August 2002-December 2008):

Center for Teaching Excellence, Advisory Board Member, Faculty Fellow, and Seminar Leader, Fall 2007- Spring 2009. College Committee on Appointments, Promotion and Tenure, University of Kansas, Fall 2005-Spring 2007 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award Committee, 2006-2008 (2 terms) College Elections Committee, University of Kansas, Fall 2005-Spring 2007 KU International Studies Masters Program, Advisory Board and Admissions Committee, Fall 2005-Spring 2008 University Honors Council, Scholarship and Advising Committee, University of Kansas, 2005-2008

10 Faculty Sponsor, Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Graduate Organization (REESGO), 2006- present and the Millennium Development Goals Organization (2007-2008). NSEP Fellowship Selection Committee, Office of Study Abroad, Spring 2006. Graduate School GTA Award Committee, Spring 2005. Political Science Representative, REES Executive Committee (2004-2005; 2006-2007); FLAS Selection Committee (2005; 2007). Mentor for Dean’s Scholar Leslie Eldridge, 2005-2006; Cristina Fernandez, University of Kansas, 2006- present; Abra Bron, December 2002 – Spring 2005. Faculty Sponsor and Coordinator, Policy Research Institute Spring 2005 Speakers Series on ‘Global Development’, University of Kansas. Faculty Director, KU Model United Nations Club, 2004-2005 KU Director for the Globe Futures Program, sponsored by the World Trade Center and International Relations Council of Kansas City. Fall 2002 – Spring 2003. KU Department of Political Science Search Committee (position on Middle East Politics), Fall 2007 KU Department of Political Science Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2002-2003; 2007-2008; Graduate Studies Committee 2006-2007 KU Department of Political Science Advisory Board, 2005-2006 KU Department of Political Science Search Committee (position on International Relations), Fall 2004 KU Department of Political Science IR Subfield Chair, 2002-2005

Teaching Experience

At the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs: PA388K: Global Economic Governance [Fa2011] PA388K: Global Governance and International Organizations: Crisis or Catharsis? [Su2011-Washington, D.C.] PA682GA: Professional Research Project: International Development Aid for Climate Change Adaption in Africa [Fa2010-Spr2011] PA188G: United Nations on the Ground [Fa2010] PA388K (MA): International Development [Spr09; Spr2010; Spr2012] PA190G: Writing and Oral Communication for Global Policy Studies [Spr2010; Fa2010; Fa2011] PA387G: Nature of the International System [Fa09]

At the University of Kansas:

Graduate Level (PhD/MA): Political Science 870 (PhD/MA): International Relations Theory [Fa02, Fa03] Political Science 981 (PhD/MA): Global Development: Theory and Practice [Spr05, Spr06] Political Science 980 (PhD/MA): International Organizations [Fa04, Fa07] Political Science 973 (PhD/MA): International Political Economy [Spr04, Fa06] International Studies 750 (MA): The Global Economy [Edwards Campus, Su03]

Undergraduate Level: Political Science 170: Introduction to International Relations [Fa02, Spr04, Spr08, Fa08] Political Science 171: Introduction to International Relations (Honors) [Sp04, Fa05, Spr06] Political Science 672: International Political Economy [Spr03, Spr05, Fa06, Fa08] Political Science 673: International Organizations [Spr03, Fa04, Fa05, Su06 - Edwards Campus, Spr08] Political Science 689: Europe at the Crossroads (KU Study Abroad in Europe) [Su05] Political Science 689: Global Development: Theory and Practice [Fa07]

Directed Readings Courses (Spring 2004 – Fall 2012, at KU and UT): Non-Governmental Organizations, Globalization, Debt Crises, Global Development, Constructivist International Relations Theory, U.S Foreign Aid, Gender and Development, Gender and African Development, Democratization and Economic Growth, European Union Expansion, Global Financial

11 Crisis, Tracking NGO Aid, Environmental Movements in Africa, Corporate Social Responsibility, Cybersecurity in Global Governance.

Research Appointments

Distinguished Scholar, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, University of Texas at Austin. 2009-present.

Research Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution. 2001-2002.

Research Assistant for Professor Kathryn Hendley (University of Wisconsin) and Professor Peter Murrell (University of Maryland). Primary and secondary research on the economic, political, and legal environments of twelve regions in Russia. Summer 2000-Spring 2001.

Project Assistant for the Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies (CREECA), University of Wisconsin. Created web resource pages on the former Soviet and East European countries. Summer 2000.

Project Assistant for Professor Kathryn Hendley, University of Wisconsin. Primary and secondary research on the Russian political economy and democratic transition. Summer 1996.

Project Assistant for Professor Mark Beissinger, University of Wisconsin. Primary research in Russian newspapers regarding ethnic conflict in the former Soviet Union. 1994-1995.

Research Assistant for Professor Michael Kennedy, University of Michigan. Interview transcriptions and secondary research on the Polish economic transition and the emergence of business expertise.1991-1994.

Languages: Russian (proficiency) French (basic proficiency) Polish (reading knowledge)

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