IQRM 2008 FACULTY BIOS   

Leonardo Arriola is an assistant professor in the political science department at UC Berkeley. He studies ethnic politics, party systems, and political economy in Africa. His current research focuses on the formation of multiethnic electoral coalitions among opposition parties in Africa. He has conducted field research in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Senegal. He has previously been a Fulbright scholar at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at Addis Ababa University, a visiting researcher at the West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal, and a predoctoral fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University.

Taylor Boas is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation examines changes in the strategies and techniques of presidential election campaigns in Latin America over the past several decades, drawing upon fieldwork conducted in Chile, Brazil, and Peru. He also works on political behavior, particularly with respect to media and advertising effects, and he has done extensive research on the relationship between the Internet, democracy, and development. His research on qualitative methods has focused on models of path dependence in political science as well as the concept of neoliberalism in the study of political economy. Boas's work has appeared in Journal of Theoretical Politics, Latin American Research Review, and Studies in Comparative International Development, as well as several edited volumes and a co‐authored book.

Henry E. Brady is Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley with appointments in the Department of Political Science and the Goldman School of Public Policy. He is also faculty director of Berkeley’s Survey Research Center and the University of California Data Archive and Technical Assistance (UC DATA) program. Prior to coming to Berkeley he taught at Boston University, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago. He has a Ph.D. in economics and political science from MIT (1980) and undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics from Harvey Mudd College (1969). Brady’s scholarly work includes publications on political methodology, political behavior, and public policy. His work is tied together by an interest in the interaction between the mass public and elites in both democratic and transitional societies. His methodological work has appeared in Psychometrika, Evaluation Review, Political Analysis, and other journals, and he is past president of the Political Methodology Society. He has undertaken surveys in Canada, Estonia, Russia, and the United States, and he has been principal investigator for large scale field experiments on social welfare in California. He has published on American, Canadian, Estonian, and Russian public opinion, elections, and political participation, and on public policy topics including voting systems, social welfare policy, computers and the social sciences, and the demographics of education in California. He is the author or co‐author of over sixty professional articles and half a dozen books including Letting the People Decide (1992) on the Canadian election of 1988 (winner of the Canadian government’s Harold Adams Innis Award for best book in the social sciences), Voice and Equality (1995) on political participation in America, Expensive Children in Poor Families: The Intersection of Childhood Disability and Welfare (2000), Rethinking Social Inquiry (2004) about utilizing both qualitative and quantitative methods (winner of the Sartori Award), Capturing Campaign Effects (2006) on studying political campaigns, The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology (2008), and the forthcoming Gathering Voices: Political Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. In 2004 Brady was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2006 a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His service to the profession includes membership on the Board of the American National Election Studies, the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee on Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences and on the NSF’s Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure.

Fred Chernoff is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Program in International Relations at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY. His research deals with foundational questions in international relations, the philosophy of social sciences and security studies. He is a contributor to International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Affairs and other journals of international politics and analytic philosophy. He is also author of Theory and Meta‐theory in International Relations: Concepts and Contending Accounts (New York: Palgrave‐Macmillan, 2007), The Power of International Theory: Re‐forging the link to policy‐making through scientific enquiry (Routledge, 2005) and After Bipolarity: The vanishing threat, theories of cooperation and the future of the Atlantic alliance (Michigan, 1995). He has held research posts at the IISS‐London, the Rand Corporation and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He has a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University and a Ph.D. in philosophy from The Johns Hopkins University.

Thad Dunning is Assistant Professor of Political Science and a research fellow at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. His current research focuses on the influence of natural resource wealth on political regimes; other recent articles investigate the influence of foreign aid on democratization and the role of information technology in economic development. He conducts field research in Latin America and elsewhere and has also written on a range of methodological topics, including econometric corrections for selection effects and the use of natural experiments in the social sciences. Dunning's book, Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes, is forthcoming in the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics series at Cambridge University Press; previous work has appeared in International Organization, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Studies in Comparative International Development, Geopolitics and in a forthcoming Handbook of Methodology (Sage Publications). He received a Ph.D. degree in political science and an M.A. degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Lynn Eden is associate director for research/senior research scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. Eden received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan and taught in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. Eden's first book, Crisis in Watertown, was her college senior thesis; it was a finalist for a National Book Award. Her second book, Witness in Philadelphia, with Florence Mars, was a retrospective look at the murders of civil rights workers Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman in the summer of 1964. In the area of international security, Eden focuses on U.S. foreign and military policy, organizational issues, and the social construction of science and technology. She co‐edited, with Steven E. Miller, Nuclear Arguments. Eden was an editor of The Oxford Companion to American Military History, a social and cultural approach war and peace in U.S. history; the volume was chosen as a Main Selection of the History Book Club. Eden's Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation won the American Sociological Association's 2004 Robert K. Merton award for best book in science, knowledge and technology. Last December (2006), Eden published "Why? Charles Tilly's Cabinet of Wonders" in a book symposium in Qualitative Sociology. Currently, Eden is particularly interested in organizational learning and error, misunderstandings of the environment, and organizational explanation and rhetoric.

Colin Elman is Associate Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University. He is currently engaged on a book project for Cambridge University Press, Regional Hegemony: The United States and Offensive Realism, 1803‐1898 which investigates America's rise to dominance in the Western Hemisphere. He is also working on other book and article projects on realist international relations theory, qualitative methods and the diffusion of unconventional conflict practices. Elman is (with Miriam Fendius Elman) the co‐editor of Progress in International Relations Theory: Appraising the Field (MIT Press, 2003); and Bridges and Boundaries: Historians, Political S cientists, and the Study of International Relations (MIT Press, 2001); and (with John Vasquez) of Realism and the Balancing of Power: A New Debate (Prentice Hall, 2003). Elman has published articles in International Studies Quarterly, the International History Review, the American Political Science Review, International Organization, International Security, and Security Studies. He is a co‐founder and Secretary‐Treasurer of both the International History and Politics and the Qualitative and Multi‐method Research organized sections of the American Political Science Association, and a co‐founder and Executive Director of the Consortium for Qualitative Research Methods.

John Gerring is Professor of Political Science at Boston University, where he teaches courses on methodology and comparative politics. His books include Party Ideologies in America, 1828‐ 1996 (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Social Science Methodology: A Criterial Framework (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Case Study Research: Principles and Practices (Cambridge University Press, 2007), A Centripetal Theory of Democratic Governance (with Strom Thacker; Cambridge University Press, 2008), Concepts and Method: Giovanni Sartori and His Legacy (ed. with David Collier; Routledge, forthcoming), Global Justice: A Prioritarian Manifesto (in process), and Democracy and Development: A Historical Perspective (in process). His articles have appeared in a wide variety of political science journals. He served as a fellow of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study (2002‐03) and a member of The National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on the Evaluation of USAID Programs to Support the Development of Democracy (2006‐07). He is the recipient of a grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate the global impact of colonialism (2007‐10) and also serves as President of the American Political Science Association’s Organized Section on Qualitative and Multi‐Method Research (2007‐09).

Gary Goertz is professor of Political Science at the University of Arizona. He is the author or coauthor of five books and over 25 articles on issues of international institutions, methodology, and conflict studies, including Contexts of International Politics (1994), War and Peace in International Rivalry (with Paul Diehl 2000), and International Norms, Punctuated Equilibrium (2003). He has published widely on methodological issues including Social Science Concepts: A User's Guide (2006 Princeton University Press), which deals with the construction and use of concepts. The topic of necessary conditions, their theory and methodology have also been a research agenda item for a number of years. He is co‐editor of the anthology Necessary Conditions: Theory, Methodology, and Application (with Harvey Starr 2003). He and Jack Levy are co‐editors of an anthology Explaining War and Peace: Case Studies and Necessary Condition Counterfactuals (2007 Routledge) dealing with causal explanations in case studies which explores explanations of World War I and the end of the Cold War.

James Goldgeier is professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University and the Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow in Transatlantic Relations at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has held appointments at Stanford and Cornell Universities, the Brookings Institution, the Library of Congress, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. From 2001‐2005, he directed George Washington University’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. He is the co‐author (with Michael McFaul) of Power and Purpose: U.S. Policy toward Russia after the Cold War, which received the 2004 Georgetown University Lepgold Book Prize in international relations, and he is the author of Not Whether But When: The U.S. Decision to Enlarge NATO and Leadership Style and Soviet Foreign Policy, winner of the 1995 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award in national and international security. In 1995‐96, he was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow serving at the State Department and on the National Security Council staff.

Brian D. Humes is a Program Officer in the Political Science Program at the National Science Foundation, Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Georgetown University, and a visiting instructor at Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis & Collection. Besides overseeing three competitions each year in the Political Science Program, he is also a member of the management team for the Human and Social Dynamics Competition. In addition, he has aided with several IGERT competitions, is currently involved with the Cyber‐enabled Discovery and Innovation solicitation, and is the NSF representative for the European Science Foundation's Cross National and Multilevel Analysis of Human Values, Institutions and Behaviour (HumVIB) competition. Before coming to the National Science Foundation, he has been a faculty member at Michigan State University and the University of Nebraska‐Lincoln. He is the co‐author of two books on game theory and has published in the American Political Science Review, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Public Choice, and International Interactions. His current research interests are in the impact of apportionment rules, the development of legislative institutions, and the roots of party cohesion.

Diana Kapiszewski is Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for the Study of Law and Society at UC Berkeley. She will begin as Assistant Professor of Political Science at UC Irvine in Fall 2008. Kapiszewski's research interests include public law and comparative politics, with an emphasis on comparative judicial politics and comparative democratization; and methodology, focusing on qualitative methods and field research methodology. Her regional interest is Latin America. Her current work focuses on high court decision making and high court‐elected branch interactions in the realm of economic governance in Argentina and Brazil. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Program, and the University of California. She completed her Ph.D. in Political Science at UC Berkeley in 2007.

Evan Lieberman is assistant professor of politics and Richard Stockton bicentennial preceptor at Princeton University. His research in the field of comparative politics is centrally concerned with questions about the causes and consequences of mobilized identities and the formation of public policy (HIV/AIDS and taxation) in the developing countries. He also writes and teaches about comparative research methods. He is the author of Race and Regionalism in the Politics of Taxation in Brazil and South Africa (Cambridge University Press 2003), and his work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Politics & Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Journal of Development Studies. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the politics of government responses to AIDS around the world ‐ Boundaries of Contagion ‐ which will be published by Princeton University Press. Lieberman received his Ph.D. in 2000 from UC Berkeley, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar at Yale University from 2000‐02.

Cecelia Lynch is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She works on religion and ethics in international affairs, social movements and civil society organizations, and qualitative/interpretive methods in social science research, and is a member of the Social Science Research Council's Working Group on Religion, Secularism, and International Affairs. Her most recent book is Strategies for Research in Constructivist International Relations (with Audie Klotz; M.E. Sharpe 2007). Previous work includes Beyond Appeasement (Cornell 1999; winner of the Furniss Prize in international security and the Myrna Bernath Prize of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Policy), which took issue with traditional interpretations of realism and idealism by examining peace movements in Britain and the U.S. from the interwar period to the creation of the UN, a co‐edited book with Michael Loriaux, Law and Moral Action in World Politics (Minnesota 2000), and articles addressing subjects ranging from the role of social movements and civil society actors in world politics to contemporary religious humanitarian movements, substantive issues in qualitative and interpretive research methods, and the use and misuse of E.H. Carr and Immanuel Kant in international relations theory. She was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon "New Directions" fellowship for her current research on "Islamic and Interfaith Religious Ethics in World Crises," and is completing another book on Christian ethics on violence in three periods of the twentieth‐century, for which she received funding from the SSRC‐MacArthur Foundation, the Huntington Library, and the AAUW.

James Mahoney is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) and coeditor of Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2003). His work also includes articles on path dependence in historical sociology, causal inference in small‐N analysis, and political regime change in Latin America. Mahoney is currently finishing a book tentatively entitled, Colonialism and Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective.

Edward D. Mansfield is the Hum Rosen Professor of Political Science and Director of the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on international security and international political economy. He is the author of Power, Trade, and War (Princeton University Press, 1994) and the co‐author (with Jack Snyder) of Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies go to War (MIT Press, 2005). He is also the editor of ten books and has published over 60 articles in the American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, World Politics, and various other journals and books. The recipient of the 2000 Karl W. Deutsch Award in International Relations and Peace Research, Mansfield has been a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution and his research has been supported by grants from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Mershon Center, and the United States Institute of Peace. He is co‐editor of the University of Michigan Press Series on International Political Economy and is an Associate Editor of International Organization. He has been a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Graduate Record Examination Political Science Committee, and Program Co‐Chair for the 2001 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. Mansfield received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania; and before joining the faculty there, he taught at Columbia University and Ohio State University.

Rose McDermott is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her areas of research include political psychology, American foreign and defense policy, and international relations theory. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science (International Relations) and a Master's Degree in Experimental Social Psychology, both from Stanford University. She has written Risk Taking in International Relations: Prospect Theory in American Foreign Policy (1998), Political Psychology in International Relations (2004), both published by the University of Michigan Press, and Presidential Leadership, Illness and Decision Making (2007), published by Cambridge University Press. She is co‐editor of Identity as a Variable, also forthcoming from Cambridge. She will be a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford in 2008‐9 to work on a project on pandemic disease.

Kristen Renwick Monroe is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at the University of California at Irvine, where she is the founder and Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality. Author or editor of eleven books and over 50 articles, she is best known for her work on altruism, presented in two award‐winning books: The Heart of Altruism: Perceptions of a Common Humanity (1994) and The Hand of Compassion: Moral Choice during the Holocaust (2004). She was graduated with honors from Smith College and the University of Chicago and has taught at Princeton, NYU, SUNY at Stony Brook, and the University of British Columbia, has served as Vice President of the American Political Science Association, the President of the International Society of Political Psychology, and the founder of the ISPP’s Caucus of Concerned Scholars: Committee on Ethics and Morality. Perestroika! The Raucous Rebellion in Political Science (Yale, 2005) addresses the value and challenges involved in broadening the range of methodological and theoretical approaches deemed acceptable in political science. Her own methodological background ranges from survey research and econometrics to narrative interpretive analyses and biological approaches to ethics, as reflected in her latest volume, Fundamentals of the Stem Cell Debate: The Scientific, Religious, Ethical, and Political Issues (University of California Press. 2007 and reviewed in Nature and the New England Journal of Medicine, two venues in which she never expected to appear.).

Charles C. Ragin holds a joint appointment as Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the University of Arizona. In 2000/1 he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and before that he was Professor of Sociology and Political Science at Northwestern University. His main interests are methodology, political sociology, and comparative‐historical research, with a special focus on such topics as the welfare state, ethnic political mobilization, and international political economy. His books include Redesigning Social Inquiry (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press), Fuzzy‐Set Social Science (University of Chicago Press), The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies (University of California Press), Issues and Alternatives in Comparative Social Research (E.J. Brill), What is a Case? Exploring the Foundations of Social Research (Cambridge University Press, with Howard S. Becker), and Constructing Social Research: The Unity and Diversity of Method (Pine Forge Press/Sage). He is also the author of more than 100 articles in research journals and edited books, and he has developed two software packages for set‐theoretic analysis of social data, Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy‐ Set/Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA). He has been awarded the Stein Rokkan Prize of the International Social Science Council, the Donald Campbell Award for Methodological Innovation by the Policy Studies Organization, and received honorable mention for the Barrington Moore, Jr. Award of the American Sociological Association. He has conducted academic workshops on methodology in Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and for diverse audiences in the United States. (See also www.u.arizona.edu/~cragin.)

Jason Seawright is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. Professor Seawright's research interests include comparative politics, with an emphasis on comparative political parties and on comparative political behavior; and methodology, with foci on the interface between qualitative and quantitative methods and on problems of causal inference in statistical analysis. His current work focuses on explaining voters' and party leaders' decisions in the process of party system collapse in Peru and Venezuela. His research has been published in the journals Political Analysis, Political Research Quarterly, and Studies in Comparative International Development, and he is coauthor of several chapters in Henry E. Brady and David Collier's Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, as well as chapters in a variety of edited volumes.

Stuart W. Shulman is Director of the Sara Fine Institute in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also the founder and Director of the Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP) at Pitt’s University Center for Social and Urban Research, which is a fee‐for-service coding lab working on projects funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, DARPA, and other funding agencies. He has been Principal Investigator and Project Director on related National Science Foundation‐funded research projects focusing on electronic rulemaking, human language technologies, coding across the disciplines, digital citizenship, and service‐learning efforts in the United States. Dr. Shulman is the Editor‐in‐Chief of the Journal of Information Technology & Politics.

Daniel Treisman is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. His interests include the politics and economics of postcommunist Russia, comparative political economy, and the causes and consequences of political decentralization. He is the author of After the Deluge: Regional Crises and Political Consolidation in Russia, (University of Michigan Press, 1999), Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia, (with Andrei Shleifer, MIT Press, 2000), and The Architecture of Government: Rethinking Political Decentralization, (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Dr. Treisman teaches about the political and economic systems of Russia and the political economy of reform. He has been a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and has received fellowships from the Smith Richardson Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and German Marshall Fund of the US. He has served on the editorial boards of Economics and Politics and Comparative Political Studies, and in 2007‐8 he is serving as interim Executive Editor of the American Political Science Review.

Carolyn M. Warner is Associate Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University. Professor Warner's research interests range from religion and politics to the political economy of corruption. She has been a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, a Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford University and a Visiting Professor at Harvard University. Her preliminary research on Muslim organizations in Europe (co‐authored with Manfred Wenner) has been published in Perspectives on Politics. Her work on corruption, The Best System Money Can Buy: Corruption in the European Union, was recently published by Cornell University Press. She has published Confessions of an Interest Group: the Catholic Church and Political Parties in Europe, (Princeton), and has contributed articles to Asian Security, Review of International Studies, Review of International Political Economy, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Party Politics, and Political Theory.

Sara Watson completed her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 2006. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan and will be starting as assistant professor at The Ohio State University in 2008. Her research focuses on the comparative political economy of Western Europe, with an emphasis on the politics of the welfare state. Sara's dissertation, The Left Divided, examined the effects of intra‐left party competition on emergent forms of welfare capitalism and state‐society relations in postauthoritarian
Southern Europe.

Lisa Wedeen is Professor and Chair of Political Science at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Ambiguities of Domination: Politics Rhetoric and Symbols in Contemporary Syria (1999; now in its second printing). Her book on Yemen entitled Peripheral Visions: Politics, Power and Performance in Yemen is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in spring 2008. Among her articles are "Conceptualizing 'Culture': Possibilities for Political Science" (American Political Science Review, December 2002); "Seeing Like a Citizen, Acting Like a State: Exemplary Events in Unified Yemen" (Comparative Studies in Society and History, October 2003; reprinted in Counter‐Narratives, Al‐Rasheed and Vitalis, eds. Palgrave MacMillan, 2004); and "The Politics of Deliberation: Qat Chews as Public Spheres in Yemen" (Public Culture, 2007). She is also a co‐editor of the book series, Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning (with Jean Comaroff, Andreas Glaeser, and William H. Sewell Jr.).