Associate Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University

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Encina West 415
Phone: (650) 736-1224


Research

Civil War
Ethnic Politics
Political Economy of Development
Democracy
Africa



Awards and Fellowships

Academic Fellowships


Center for International Development Summer Research Fellowship (2003)
Brookings Institution Research Fellowship, Foreign Policy Studies (2002-03)
Young Africanist Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center (2002)
Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship, Harvard University (2000-01)
Center for International Development Summer Research Fellowship (1999)
Jacob Javits Graduate Research Fellowship (1997-2002)
J. Roland Pennock Fellowship in Public Affairs (1994)
Eugene Lang Opportunity Scholarship for Social Change (1993-97)

             

Research Grants

Australian Aid and Center for Global Development (2007-2011), $600,000
Hewlett Grant, Institute for International Studies at Stanford (2006), $2250
Undergraduate Research Program, Stanford University (2006), $5400
Presidential Fund for Innovation in International Studies, Stanford (2006), $277,500
Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (2006), $10,000
Folke Bernadotte Academy, Sweden (2005), $60,000
Hewlett Grant, Institute for International Studies at Stanford (2005), $2250
Undergraduate Research Program, Stanford University (2005), $5400
Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (2004), $16,000
Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Conference Center (2004)
Russell Sage Foundation Research Grant (2003-05), $197,754
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant (2003-04), $30,000
Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (2003), $10,000
Earth Institute (Columbia University) Research Grant (2003), $20,000
      

Honors

Heinz Eulau Award for Best Article in the American Political Science Review (2008)
William Riker Prize for Best Book in Political Economy (2008)
Michael Wallerstein Award for Best Article in Political Economy (2008)
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching in the First Years of Teaching (2008)
African Politics Conference Group Award for Best Article (2007)
Gregory Luebbert Prize for Best Article Published in Comparative Politics (2007)
Sage Prize for Best Paper in Comparative Politics Presented at Annual Meeting of the American Political                Science Association (2005)
Joseph Levenson Memorial Teaching Award, Awarded to the Outstanding Teaching Fellow at Harvard               University (2000)
Derek Bok Certificate for Excellence in Teaching, Harvard University (2000)
The Ivy Award, Outstanding Graduating Senior, Swarthmore College (1997)
Phi Beta Kappa (1997)
The Dean’s Award for Service, Swarthmore College (1997)
Sara Kaign Cooper Scholarship, Outstanding Junior, Swarthmore College (1996)
Member of the All-College Academic Second Team, U.S.A. Today Scholarship Competition (1996)



Professional Activities

Member of the Board of Trustees, Swarthmore College (1999-2003)
            Committees: Social Responsibility, Development, Academic Affairs
Term Member, Council on Foreign Relations
Founder and Member, Experiments in Governance and Politics (EGAP)
Member, Committee to Evaluate U.S. Democracy Assistance Programming, National Academy of Sciences
Member, Laboratory in Comparative Ethnic Processes (LiCEP)
Member, American Political Science Association
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Democracy Development and the Rule of Law
Faculty Affiliate, Center for International Security and Cooperation
Faculty Affiliate, Center for African Studies
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity

University Service

Director, Center for African Studies (2007 – 2008)
Dean’s Committee on the Future of ICA (2007-2008)
ICA, Executive Committee (2007-2008)
Bing Overseas Studies Program Oversight Committee (2007-2008)
Convenor, Comparative Politics, Department of Political Science (2005 – 2007)
Haas Center for Public Service Faculty Advisory Board (2005 – Present)
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Selection Committee (2005)
Stanford-in-Government Fellowship Selection Committee (2005)
CDDRL Pre- and Post-Doctoral Selection Committee (2005)
Graduate Admissions Committee (2004-2007)
Committee for African Studies (2004-Present)

Professional Service

Referee for American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Politics, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, National Science Foundation, the World Bank, World Development, and World Politics.



Courses

Political Science 4: Intro to Comparative Politics



Field Work

Liberia, Survey and Experimental Research (March 2008, Summer 2008)
Indonesia, Field Experiment and Survey (Summer 2007)
Zimbabwe, Field Experiment and Survey (February 2007)
Liberia, Survey Research (March - April 2006)
Liberia, Field Research (January 2006)
Uganda, Experimental Economics Research (May – August 2005)
Haiti, Exploratory Survey Research (December 2004)
Sierra Leone, Survey Research (Summer 2003, Summer 2004)       
Uganda, Mozambique, and Peru, Dissertation Field Research (September 2000 – January 2002)
Zambia and Zimbabwe, Summer Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship (Summer 1999)
Kenya, Senior Undergraduate Thesis Research (Summer 1996)




Publications

Books and Mongraphs

The Co-Ethnic Advantage: Diversity and the Impediments to Collective Action (with J. Habyarimana, M. Humphreys, and D. Posner) (Russell Sage Foundation Press, Forthcoming)

Improving Democracy Assistance: Building Knowledge Through Evaluations and Research (Jointly co-authored with an NAS Panel) (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2008).
 
Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

On the Brink: Weak States and US National Security (Washington, DC: The Center for Global Development, 2004).


Articles and Chapters

            Peer-Reviewed

"Can Outsiders Build Cohesion After Civil War: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Post-Conflict Liberia" (with J. Fearon and M. Humphreys), American Economics Association Papers and Proceedings (Forthcoming).

"Field Experiments and the Political Economy of Development" (with M. Humphreys). Annual Review of Political Science (Forthcoming).

“Who Fights? The Determinants of Participation in Civil War” (with M. Humphreys). American Journal of Political Science (April 2008).

“Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision?” (with J. Habyarimana, M. Humphreys, and D. Posner). American Political Science Review (November 2007).

“Demobilization and Reintegration” (with M. Humphreys). Journal of Conflict Resolution (August 2007).

“Handling and Manhandling Civilians in Civil War” (with M. Humphreys).  American Political Science Review (August 2006).

“Resources and the Information Problem in Rebel Recruitment.”  Journal of Conflict Resolution (August 2005). 

            Non-Peer Reviewed

“Field Experiments” (with M. Humphreys). Annual Review of Political Science (Forthcoming).

“Why Are Co-Ethnics Believed to be More Trustworthy?” (with J. Habyarimana, M. Humphreys, and D. Posner). In Karen Cook and Margaret Levi (editors), Russell Sage Foundation Capstone Volume on Trust. Forthcoming, Russell Sage Foundation Press.

“Assessing Progress toward Demobilization and Reintegration in Sierra Leone” (with M. Humphreys). In Robert Muggah (editor). In Securing Protection: Reconsidering Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration. Forthcoming, Routledge Press.

“Guerrillas, Rebels, or Warlords?  How Rebel Group Structures Matter for Policy.”  In David Capie and Pablo Policzer (editors), After Leviathan: Restraining Violence by Non-State Armed Groups.  Forthcoming, University of Pennsylvania Press.

“Better Institutions, Not Partition.” (with J. Habyarimana, M. Humphreys, and D. Posner), Foreign Affairs (July/August 2008).

“It has been difficult to find evidence of democracy’s economic dividends: Comment on Miguel.” Boston Review (May 2008).

“Toward More Policy-Relevant Research on Civil War Severity.” (with B. Lacina).  APSA-CP Newsletter (Summer 2007).

“Africa’s Revolutionary Deficit.” Foreign Policy (July/August 2007).
           
“Rebuilding Weak States” (with Stuart Eizenstat and John Edward Porter).  Foreign Affairs (January/February 2005).

“The Civil War in Mozambique” (with L. Francisco). In Paul Collier and Nicholas Sambanis (editors), Economic Models and Case Studies of Civil War.  Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2005.

“A New Threat of Terror in the Western Hemisphere.”  SAIS Review (Winter/Spring 2003).

“The Structure of Rebel Organizations: Implications for Post-Conflict Reconstruction.”  Research Dissemination Note 4, Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction Unit, World Bank, June 2002.

“Mozambique: A Fading U.N. Success Story.”  Journal of Democracy (January 2002).

 “Africa’s Scramble for Africa: Lessons of a Continental War.”  World Policy Journal (Summer 2000).

“Service Learning as Democratic Education in South Africa and the United States.” (with M. Mendel Reyes) Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (Fall 1996).

 

Other Manuscripts

“AIDS, Security, and Social Stability.”

 “Autonomous Recovery and International Intervention in Comparative Perspective.” 

 “Ethnic Identifiability: An Experimental Approach” (with J. Habyarimana, M. Humphreys, and D. Posner). 

“Group Preferences or Group Strategies?  Untangling the Determinants of Successful Collective Action Among Gender and Ethnic Groups” (with J. Habyarimana, M. Humphreys, and D. Posner).

 “Measuring the Economic Impact of Civil War” (with K. Imai).

“Placing and Passing: Evidence from Uganda on Ethnic Identification and Deception” (with J. Habyarimana, M. Humphreys, and D. Posner).

“Policing the Politicians: Citizen Empowerment and Political Accountability in Africa” (with M. Humphreys).

“Social Focal Points” (with J. Habyarimana, M. Humphreys, and D. Posner).

 “What the Fighters Say?  A Survey of Ex-Combatants in Sierra Leone” (with M. Humphreys).