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Stephen M. Saideman |
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When I was stuck out in the wilds of West Texas, I largely worked by myself. Since then, I have worked with a number of co-authors and depending on many graduate and undergraduate students. Co-authors: David Auerswald, National War College: Book project and articles focused on the domestic and alliance politics of multilateral military operations. R. William Ayres, Gettysburg College: Articles and book on irredentism (For Kin or Country). Johanna Birnir, University of Maryland: Research on institutions and ethnic conflict, improving Minorities at Risk dataset. Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, Iowa State University: new project on diaspora mobilization and impact. Erin Jenne, Central European University: Articles on separatism, new project on diaspora mobilization and impact. David Lanoue, Columbus State University. Article and related papers on institutions and ethnic conflict. Jonathan Paquin, Université de Laval (former doctoral student): article on international politics of ethnic conflict. Samuel Stanton, Grove City College (my first doctoral student): article on institutions and ethnic conflict. David Steinberg, University of Oregon (former undergraduate student and currently post-doc at U of Pennsylvania): Articles analyzing the role of governments in exacerbating or ameliorating ethnic conflict. Marie-Joëlle Zahar, Université de Montréal: Edited volume and articles on application of deterrence theory to intra-state conflict. Ph.D Students My graduate students share many qualities: they are bright, work really hard, asking interesting questions. They largely focus on the intersection between international and domestic politics, trying to understand the causes and dynamics of intense political conflict--violence. They will all make great professors, so if you have any questions about hiring any of these folks (and you should hire them), contact me. Aisha Ahmad is writing her dissertation on the economic foundations of Islamic movements in Afghanistan and Somalia, exploring the relationships between local business communities and the Taliban and Islamic Courts Union, respectively. Her dissertation has been supported by a SSHRC doctoral award, her field research was funded by the IDRC doctoral field research grant, and she recently won the SDF award to fund the completion of her PhD. She has also been awarded the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy doctoral award, which was further recognized with the Harold D. Lasswell Award. Her work on Afghanistan has significantly informed my own. Amy Cox recently defended her dissertation "Following The Leader: When Ethno-Nationalist Groups Support Violent Strategies." This project analyzes the conditions under which ethnic groups will support or reject violent strategies espoused by elites, focusing on Quebec, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. She has worked on my project, Democracy at Risk? Elections, Institutions and Ethnic Conflict, and we are currently revising a paper that considers how ethnic conflict may vary in different types of authoritarian regimes. She teaches at Arcadia University. Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at McGill, currently writing up dissertation, "Tackling the Anarchy Within : The Role of Deterrence and Great Powers in Peace Operations." She focuses on peacekeeping deployments in Africa, considering how deterrent strategies interact with the relative power of intervening countries to improve peace operations’ efficiency. She has worked with me on my efforts to understand the fiscal consequences of nationalist politics in Quebec and on the civil-military relations of France as it operates in Afghanistan. Mark Mattner is a Ph.D. candidate (but not mine) in Political Science at McGill, researching community responses to oil production in Africa. He has worked with me on the politics of Germany's efforts in Afghanistan. Ora Szekely is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at McGill. Her dissertation compares the relationships fostered by Hamas, Hizbullah and the PLO with their foreign sponsors and domestic constituencies, and how those relationships have rendered them more or less successful in their respective conflicts with Israel. She has worked with me on several projects. She did extensive research and editing for For Kin or Country: Xenophobia, Nationalism, and War and Intra-State Conflict, Governments and Security: Dilemmas of Deterrence and Assurance. She also helped on the project on the complexity of multilateral military operations, and we are co-authoring a paper on how bureaucratic competition might actually have positive consequence, not just negative ones. She also frequently served as my senior teaching assistant for my very large Intro to IR course, and in 2010 she co-taught a course at McGill on post-conflict peacebuilding. Jessica N. Trisko is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at McGill. Her dissertation, “Blood Money: Aid and Repression in Post-Cold War Asia,” has been funded by a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canadian Doctoral Fellowship. She has recently received a fellowship from the Department of National Defence's Security and Defence Forum. The dissertation explores the relationship between American and Japanese bilateral foreign aid and the level of repression in recipient countries. In addition, Jessica is currently working on a project on the role of government stability considerations in US foreign aid policy. In 2010, Jessica will be teaching POLI 346: American Foreign Policy at McGill and will be a Visiting Fellow at the Mansfield Foundation in Washington, D.C. She is also affiliated with the McGill-Université de Montréal Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS). Suranjan Weeraratne completed his PhD at McGill, "Scapegoatability: Explaining patterns of violence against the ethnic Chinese in the Indonesian Archipelago." This project examines spatial variations in violence against entrepreneurial ethnic minorities in general and in particular focuses on district and neighbourhood level variations in the levels of anti-Chinese rioting in Indonesia in the late New Order period of President Suharto. He has worked on a variety of projects with me, with most of the effort on Democracy at Risk? Elections, Institutions and Ethnic Conflict. He has also served as my senior teaching assistant for my 600 student Intro to IR course. He is currently working at the World Bank. Undergraduates: Past and present members of my research team at McGill include a number of undergraduates: Rachel Brydolf-Horowitz, Bronwen DeSena, Vania Draguieva, Katarina Germani, Gisele Irola, Alexia Jablonski, Michelle Meyer, Jenyfer Maisonneuve, Claudia Martinez Ochoa, Lauren Van Den Berg, and Lori Young. David Lehman was a master's student when he helped me on Kin or Country and now works in Canada's Department of National Defence. |