IN BRIEF:
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Professor, Department of Political Science. University of Toronto. 2018-present.
Canada Research Chair, Global Governance and Civil Society. 2018-present. Research Lead, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. 2020-present Co-Director of the ACELab (Activism and Civic Engagement Lab), Munk School of Global Affairs. University of Toronto. 2017-present. |
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OTHER ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
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Associate Professor, Department of Political Science. University of Toronto. 2013-2018.
Director, Trudeau Center for Peace, Conflict, and Justice, Munk School of Global Affairs. University of Toronto. 2012-2017. Visiting Scholar, Center for International Studies, School of International Relations, Dana and David Dornsife College of Arts and Sciences. University of Southern California. Spring 2015. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science. University of Toronto. 2008-2013. |
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EDUCATION:
Ph.D University of California, San Diego, 2008
Political Science
M.A. University of California, San Diego, 2004
Political Science
B.A. University of California, Berkeley, 2002
Political Science with Distinction
ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Institute on Qualitative Research Methods (IQRM), sponsored by the Consortium on Qualitative Methods. Tempe, Arizona. January 2005.
Political Science
M.A. University of California, San Diego, 2004
Political Science
B.A. University of California, Berkeley, 2002
Political Science with Distinction
ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Institute on Qualitative Research Methods (IQRM), sponsored by the Consortium on Qualitative Methods. Tempe, Arizona. January 2005.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Books and Chapters
Datafied: Rebooting Human Rights in the Digital Age. Manuscript in preparation.
The Authority Trap (with Sarah S. Stroup). 2017. Cornell University Press.
Internal Affairs: How the Structure of NGOs Transforms Human Rights. Cornell University Press. 2012. *paperback 2014*
“Strategic Philanthropy and International Strategies: The Ford Foundation and Investments in Law Schools and Legal Education, 1951-2003” (with Ron Levi and Ronit Dinovitzer). Forthcoming. Oxford University Press.
“Leading Authority as Hierarchy among INGOs” (with Sarah S. Stroup). Hierarchies in World Politics, ed. Ayse Zarakol. Cambridge University Press. 2017. 175-197.
“Domesticating the Field: The Ford Foundation and the Development of International Human Rights” (with Ron Levi and Julia Deutsch). Professional Networks in Transnational Governance, eds. Leonard Seabrooke Lasse Folke Henriksen. Cambridge University Press. 2017. 82-100.
“Becoming a Household Name: How Human Rights NGOs Establish Credibility through Organizational Structure.” Credibility and Non-Government Organizations in a Globalizing World: When Virtue is Not Enough, eds. Peter Gourevitch, David A. Lake, and Janice Gross Stein. Cambridge University Press. 2012. 86-112.
“The Politics of Networks: Interests, Power, and Human Rights Norms” (with David A. Lake). Networked Politics: Agency, Power, and Governance, ed. Miles Kahler. Cornell University Press. 2009.
Articles
"The Stories They Tell: What INGO Mission Statements Reveal about their Authority" (with Takumi Shibaike, Sarah S. Stroup, and Alfred Oduro). Global Society. Online preview.
"What Counts? How to Use Different Sources of NGO Data" (with Elizabeth A. Bloodgood and Sarah S. Stroup). Voluntas. Online preview.
"What COVID-19 Revealed About Health, Human Rights, and the WHO" (with Eileen A. Wong). Journal of Human Rights 19 (5). 2020.
“Did the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Reduce Child Mortality Around the World? An Interrupted Time Series Analysis” (with Christopher A. Tait, Abtin Parnia, Nishan Zewege-Abubaker, Heather Smith-Cannoy, and Arjumand Siddiqi). BMC Public Health 20. 2020.
“When Everyone Agrees: Human Rights Norms on Women and Children and their Effects on Health” (with Heather Smith-Cannoy, Arjumand Siddiqi, Christopher Tait, and Abtin Parnia). The International Journal of Human Rights 24 (10): 1537-1571. 2020.
“Can the Health Effects of Widely-Held Societal Norms be Evaluated? An Analysis of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (UN-CEDAW)” (with Christopher A. Tait, Ifrah Abdillahi, Heather Smith-Cannoy, and Arjumand Siddiqi). BMC Public Health 19: 279-289. 2019.
"Authority, Strategy, and Influence: Environmental INGOs in Comparative Perspective" (with Sarah S. Stroup). Environmental Politics 27 (6): 1101-1121. 2018.
“Governance and Security: How Organizational Structure Shapes Terrorist Violence” (with Lindsay Heger and Danielle F. Jung). Journal of Global Security Studies 2 (3): 220-236. 2017.
“Agenda-Setting in Greenpeace and Amnesty: The Limits of Centralization in International NGOs” (with Emily Matthews Luxon). Global Society 31 (4): 479-509. 2017.
“The Power and Authority of International NGOs” (with Sarah S. Stroup). Perspectives on Politics 14 (1): 138-144. 2016.
“Knowing Your Audience: How the Structure of International Relations and Organizational Choices Affect Amnesty International's Advocacy” (with Cullen S. Hendrix). Review of International Organizations 9 (1): 29-58. 2014.
“E-bandits in Global Activism: Wikileaks, Anonymous, and the Politics of No One” (with Peter A. Brown). Perspectives on Politics 11 (4): 1015-1033. 2013.
“Come Together? Different Pathways to International NGO Centralization” (with Sarah S. Stroup). International Studies Review 15 (2): 163-184. 2013.
“When is the Pen Truly Mighty? Regime Type and the Efficacy of Naming and Shaming in Curbing Human Rights Abuses” (with Cullen S. Hendrix). British Journal of Political Science. 2012.
“Organizing for Success: How Group Structure Impacts the Character of Violence” (with Lindsay Heger and Danielle Jung). Terrorism and Political Violence. 2012.
“Is Trafficking Slavery? Anti-Slavery International in the Twenty-first Century.”Human Rights Review 12 (3): 315-328. 2011.
WORKING PAPERS/PROJECTS:
“Understanding National Nonprofit Data Environments” (with Elizabeth Bloodgood, Jesse Bourns, Michael Lenczner, Takumi Shibaike, and Jenny Tabet). Revise and resubmit.
"Why Data Are So Hard to Govern" (with David A. Lake). In preparation.
“Functional Governance: Understanding Legitimate Governance by a Variety of Actors” (with Danielle F. Jung and Amanda Murdie). In preparation.
“The Politics of Information” (with Sarah S. Stroup and Elizabeth Bloodgood). In preparation.
Datafied: Rebooting Human Rights in the Digital Age. Manuscript in preparation.
The Authority Trap (with Sarah S. Stroup). 2017. Cornell University Press.
- Winner, Best Book Award 2019, ARNOVA
- Reviewed in: International Politics Reviews (2018), Perspectives on Politics (2020)
- Subject of an “Author Meets Critics Roundtable” at the American Political Science Association Meeting 2017, San Francisco, CA.
Internal Affairs: How the Structure of NGOs Transforms Human Rights. Cornell University Press. 2012. *paperback 2014*
- Winner, Best Book Award 2014, ARNOVA
- Reviewed in: Choice (March 2013); Human Rights Quarterly (August 2013); American Journal of Sociology (November 2013); Human Rights Review (December 2013); Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (February 2014); Perspectives on Politics (March 2014); Voluntas (April 2014); Mobilization (Fall 2014); Canadian Journal of Nonprofit & Social Economy Research (Autumn 2014).
- Subject of an “Author Meets Critics Panel” at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting 2013, Chicago, IL.
“Strategic Philanthropy and International Strategies: The Ford Foundation and Investments in Law Schools and Legal Education, 1951-2003” (with Ron Levi and Ronit Dinovitzer). Forthcoming. Oxford University Press.
“Leading Authority as Hierarchy among INGOs” (with Sarah S. Stroup). Hierarchies in World Politics, ed. Ayse Zarakol. Cambridge University Press. 2017. 175-197.
“Domesticating the Field: The Ford Foundation and the Development of International Human Rights” (with Ron Levi and Julia Deutsch). Professional Networks in Transnational Governance, eds. Leonard Seabrooke Lasse Folke Henriksen. Cambridge University Press. 2017. 82-100.
“Becoming a Household Name: How Human Rights NGOs Establish Credibility through Organizational Structure.” Credibility and Non-Government Organizations in a Globalizing World: When Virtue is Not Enough, eds. Peter Gourevitch, David A. Lake, and Janice Gross Stein. Cambridge University Press. 2012. 86-112.
“The Politics of Networks: Interests, Power, and Human Rights Norms” (with David A. Lake). Networked Politics: Agency, Power, and Governance, ed. Miles Kahler. Cornell University Press. 2009.
Articles
"The Stories They Tell: What INGO Mission Statements Reveal about their Authority" (with Takumi Shibaike, Sarah S. Stroup, and Alfred Oduro). Global Society. Online preview.
"What Counts? How to Use Different Sources of NGO Data" (with Elizabeth A. Bloodgood and Sarah S. Stroup). Voluntas. Online preview.
"What COVID-19 Revealed About Health, Human Rights, and the WHO" (with Eileen A. Wong). Journal of Human Rights 19 (5). 2020.
“Did the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Reduce Child Mortality Around the World? An Interrupted Time Series Analysis” (with Christopher A. Tait, Abtin Parnia, Nishan Zewege-Abubaker, Heather Smith-Cannoy, and Arjumand Siddiqi). BMC Public Health 20. 2020.
“When Everyone Agrees: Human Rights Norms on Women and Children and their Effects on Health” (with Heather Smith-Cannoy, Arjumand Siddiqi, Christopher Tait, and Abtin Parnia). The International Journal of Human Rights 24 (10): 1537-1571. 2020.
“Can the Health Effects of Widely-Held Societal Norms be Evaluated? An Analysis of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (UN-CEDAW)” (with Christopher A. Tait, Ifrah Abdillahi, Heather Smith-Cannoy, and Arjumand Siddiqi). BMC Public Health 19: 279-289. 2019.
"Authority, Strategy, and Influence: Environmental INGOs in Comparative Perspective" (with Sarah S. Stroup). Environmental Politics 27 (6): 1101-1121. 2018.
“Governance and Security: How Organizational Structure Shapes Terrorist Violence” (with Lindsay Heger and Danielle F. Jung). Journal of Global Security Studies 2 (3): 220-236. 2017.
“Agenda-Setting in Greenpeace and Amnesty: The Limits of Centralization in International NGOs” (with Emily Matthews Luxon). Global Society 31 (4): 479-509. 2017.
“The Power and Authority of International NGOs” (with Sarah S. Stroup). Perspectives on Politics 14 (1): 138-144. 2016.
“Knowing Your Audience: How the Structure of International Relations and Organizational Choices Affect Amnesty International's Advocacy” (with Cullen S. Hendrix). Review of International Organizations 9 (1): 29-58. 2014.
“E-bandits in Global Activism: Wikileaks, Anonymous, and the Politics of No One” (with Peter A. Brown). Perspectives on Politics 11 (4): 1015-1033. 2013.
“Come Together? Different Pathways to International NGO Centralization” (with Sarah S. Stroup). International Studies Review 15 (2): 163-184. 2013.
“When is the Pen Truly Mighty? Regime Type and the Efficacy of Naming and Shaming in Curbing Human Rights Abuses” (with Cullen S. Hendrix). British Journal of Political Science. 2012.
“Organizing for Success: How Group Structure Impacts the Character of Violence” (with Lindsay Heger and Danielle Jung). Terrorism and Political Violence. 2012.
“Is Trafficking Slavery? Anti-Slavery International in the Twenty-first Century.”Human Rights Review 12 (3): 315-328. 2011.
WORKING PAPERS/PROJECTS:
“Understanding National Nonprofit Data Environments” (with Elizabeth Bloodgood, Jesse Bourns, Michael Lenczner, Takumi Shibaike, and Jenny Tabet). Revise and resubmit.
"Why Data Are So Hard to Govern" (with David A. Lake). In preparation.
“Functional Governance: Understanding Legitimate Governance by a Variety of Actors” (with Danielle F. Jung and Amanda Murdie). In preparation.
“The Politics of Information” (with Sarah S. Stroup and Elizabeth Bloodgood). In preparation.
