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Government - The Faculty, 2009-10 (A-O)

James E. Alt (PhD, University of Essex, 1978) is Frank G. Thomson Professor of Govern­ment and director of graduate studies. He is author, co-author, or editor of The Politics of Economic Decline (1979), Political Economics (1983), Advances in Quantitative Methods (1980), Cabinet Studies (1975), Perspectives on Positive Political Economy (1990), and Competition and Cooperation (1999). He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, including “Partisan Dealignment in Britain 1964-1974” in the British Journal of Political Science, 1977; “Political Parties, World Demand, and Unemployment” in the American Political Science Review, 1985; “Crude Politics: Oil and the Political Economy of Unemployment in Britain and Norway, 1970-85,” in the British Journal of Political Science, 1987; “Divided Government, Fiscal Institutions, and Deficits: Evidence from the States,” in the American Political Science Review, 1994; and “Fiscal Policy and Elections in American States,” in the American Political Science Review, 1998. He is or has been a member of the editorial boards of the Amer­ican Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Political Studies, American Political Science Review, and other journals, and has been a member of the Political Science Panel of the National Science Foundation. Alt was a Guggenheim Fellow 1997-98 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Senior Research Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.

Stephen Ansolabehere (PhD Harvard, 1989) is Professor of Government. He previously held the Elting Morison Chair at MIT. He is a Truman Fellow, a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a Carnegie Scholar. He is author of three books, The Media Game (with Roy Behr and Shanto Iyengar), Going Negative (with Shanto Iyengar), and The End of Inequality (with James M. Snyder, Jr.); his published articles have appeared, among other places, in the American Political Science Review, the American Economic Review, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, and the Harvard Law Review, and he is the editor of the Cambridge University Press book series on the Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions. While at MIT he helped found the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, which he ran from its inception in 2000 through 2004. He has served a member of the Board of Overseers of the American National Election Study since 1999, and is the Principal Investigator of the Cooperative Congressional Election Study. He consults with CBS News Election Desk on the analysis of U.S. national elections.

Muhammet Ali Bas (PhD, University of Rochester, 2007), is an assistant professor of government. His research and teaching inter­ests include international relations, political methodology, and applied formal theory, with an emphasis on the formal and quantitative approaches to the analysis of international relations. His current research focus is on the sources of suboptimal behavior in interna­tional crises, environmental causes of conflict and war, and statistical models of strategic behavior.

Robert H. Bates is Eaton Professor in the Department of Government, and a member of the Department of African and African-American Studies. He also serves as Professeur associe, Department of Economics, University of Toulouse. After rising to Full Professor at the California Institute of Technology, he became the Henry R. Luce Professor of Political Science and Economics at Duke University, where he also directed its Center for Political Economy. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he received his B. A. from Haverford in 1964 and his PhD from M.I.T. in 1969. He is the author of numerous books, including Markets and States in Tropical Africa (1981), Beyond the Miracles of the Market (1989), Open Economy Politics (1997), Analytic Narratives (1998) and Prosperity and Violence (2002). Bates has undertaken extensive fieldwork in Columbia, Brazil and several nations in Africa. Among his fields of interest are political economy; political development; political violence; and African politics. He has served as President of the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Associa­tion, Vice President of the Association and a member of the board of the African Studies Association. He presently serves as a member of the State Failure Task Force of the United States government and as a consultant at the World Bank. In 2007, his co-authored and co-edited study of Africa’s economic perfor­mance in the first fifty years of independence was published in two volumes by Cambridge University Press (The Political Economy of Afri­ca’s Economic Development, 1960-2000) and a study of Africa’s late-century political collapse (When Things Fell Apart), also with Cambridge University Press.

Eric Beerbohm (B.Phil., Oxford; PhD, Princ­eton, 2006), Assistant Professor of Govern­ment and Social Studies at Harvard University. His philosophical and teaching interests include democratic theory, theories of distrib­utive justice, political ethics, and the morality of public policy. He is currently working on a book manuscript, entitled “In Our Name: The Ethics of Democratic Government,” which considers the moral division of labor between citizens and lawmakers. His ongoing research includes the methodology of egalitarian theo­ries and the implications of moral uncertainty for political decision-making. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 2007, his B.Phil. from Oxford University, and his MA in Philosophy from Stanford University.

Daniel Carpenter (PhD, University of Chicago, 1996), professor of government and director of the Center for American Political Studies, is an analyst of the develop­ment of political institutions, the political economy of regulation, bureaucratic politics, and health policy. His research asks why and how the bureaucratic federal government of the United States has come to derive its current policymaking powers. His book, The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Networks, Reputations and Policy Innovation in Executive Departments, 1862-1928 (2001), advances a theory of bureaucratic autonomy and shows how federal bureaucracies came to occupy new policymaking roles in the early 20th century. The book illustrates how the USDA and the national post office were able to intrude into new policy arenas (such as forest and land conservation, the regulation of lotteries and pornography, food and drug regulation, energy provision, and finance), while other agencies were unable to do so. Carpenter’s answer focuses upon the ability of bureaucratic entrepreneurs to create agency reputations and diverse policy-specific coalitions behind their favored alternatives. Carpenter is currently working on a theoretical, historical, and statistical study of government regulation of pharmaceuticals by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He has published several papers on the FDA drug approval process and is in the process of writing a book on FDA drug regulation.

Timothy J. Colton (PhD, Harvard, 1974) is Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Government Department’s director of undergraduate studies. His main research interest is Russian and post-Soviet government and politics. He is the author, among other works, of The Dilemma of Reform in the Soviet Union (1986); Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis (1995), which was named best scholarly book in government and political science by the Association of American Publishers; Transitional Citizens: Voters and What Influences Them in the New Russia (2000); Popular Choice and Managed Democracy: The Russian Elections of 1999 and 2000, with Michael McFaul (2003); and Yeltsin: A Life (2008). Colton was chairman of the international committee of the American Political Science Association and is currently a member of the Social Science Research Coun­cil’s committee on Eurasian studies and of the editorial board of Post-Soviet Affairs.

Jorge I. Domínguez (PhD, Harvard, 1972) is the Antonio Madero of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics, Vice Provost of the University for Interna­tional Affairs, and Chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He is author or co-author of books including Mexico’s Pivotal Democratic Election: Candi­dates, Voters, and the Presidential Campaign of 2000; Cuba Hoy: Analizando su pasado, imaginando su futuro; Between Compliance and Conflict: East Asia, Latin America and the “New” Pax Americana; Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America; The United States and Mexico: Between Partnership and Conflict; Democratic Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean; Technopols: Freeing Politics and Freeing Markets in Latin America in the 1990s; Insurrection or Loyalty: The Breakdown of the Spanish American Empire; To Make A World Safe for Revolution: Cuba’s Foreign Policy; Cuba: Order and Revolution. A past president of the Latin American Studies Association and past board chairman of the Latin American Scholarship Program of American Universities, he currently serves on the editorial boards of Political Science Quarterly, Foro Internacional, Foreign Affairs en español, and Cuban Studies. He was series editor for the Peabody Award-winning Public Broadcasting System television series, Crisis in Central America. Domínguez’s current research focuses on the international relations and domestic politics of Latin Amer­ican countries.

Grzegorz Ekiert (PhD, Harvard, 1991) is Professor of Government and Senior Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. His teaching and research interests focus on comparative politics, regime change and democratization, civil society and social movements, and East European politics and societies. He is the author of The State Against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in East Central Europe (1996), Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, (with Jan Kubik 1999) and Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule, (co-edited with Stephen Hanson 2003). His papers appeared in numerous social science journals and edited volumes. His current projects explore patterns of civil society development in new democ­racies in Central Europe and East Asia, the state of democracy in postcommunist world, and the EU membership impact on postcom­munist democracies. He is also Senior Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Center for European Studies, Davis Center for Russian Studies, and Member of the Club of Madrid Advisory Committee.

Michael Frazer (PhD, Princeton University, 2006) is an assistant professor of government and social studies. His research focuses on the history of modern political philosophy and its relevance for contemporary political theory. His current book project, “The Enlightenment of Sympathy: Justice and the Moral Senti­ments in the Eighteenth Century and Today,” defends a psychologically holistic approach to political reflection through an examina­tion of Enlightenment-era authors such as David Hume, Adam Smith and J. G. Herder. Dr. Frazer has also published articles on Maimonides, Nietzsche, Leo Strauss and John Rawls in such journals as Political Theory and The Review of Politics. He spent the 2006-7 academic year as a postdoctoral research asso­ciate in the Political Theory Project at Brown University.

Jeffry Frieden (PhD, Columbia, 1984), Stanfield Professor of International Peace. Monetary and financial relations. Frieden is the author of Banking on the World: The Poli­tics of American International Finance (1987), of Debt, Development, and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America, 1965­-1985 (1991), of Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (2006); and the editor or co-editor of over a dozen other books on related topics. His articles on the politics of international economic issues have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general-interest publications.

Claudine Gay (PhD, Harvard, 1998) is professor of government, with research and teaching interests in the fields of American political behavior, public opinion, and race and ethnic politics. Before joining the depart­ment, Gay was an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University from 2000 to 2005, and an associate professor from 2005 to 2006. From 1999 to 2000, Gay was a Visiting Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. Her research has considered the effects of descriptive representation on citizens’ orientations toward their government, the role of neighborhoods in shaping the racial and political attitudes of Black Americans, and the effects of concentrated poverty on political engagement. Her work has been published in Political Psychology, the American Political Science Review, and the American Journal of Political Science.

Adam Glynn (PhD University of Washington 2006) is an assistant professor of government and a faculty associate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. His research and teaching interests include political method­ology, inference for combined aggregate and individual level data, causal inference, and sampling design. His current research involves the use of aggregate data for the correction of biased surveys.

Peter A. Hall (MPhil, Oxford; PhD, Harvard, 1982) is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies. He is an editor of Successful Societies: How Culture and Institutions Affect Health (2009); Changing France: The Politics that Markets Make; Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage; The Political Power of Economic Ideas: Keynesianism across Nations; Develop­ments in French Politics I and II; and Euro­pean Labor in the 1980s. He is the author of Governing the Economy as well as over 70 articles on European politics, policy-making, and comparative political economy. He serves on the advisory boards of many journals and European research institutes, and is codirector of the Successful Societies Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He is currently working on issues in the method­ology of social science, the political response to economic integration and crisis in post-war Europe, and the contribution of social struc­ture to inequalities in health.

Michael J. Hiscox (PhD, Harvard, 1997) is the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs and faculty associate at the Weather-head Center for International Affairs and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. His research focuses on international trade, foreign investment, immigration, development, and private sector standards for ethical and envi­ronmentally responsible practices. He has written a number of articles for leading schol­arly journals, including the American Political Science Review, International Organization, and the Journal of Economic History. He is also the author of two books: International Trade and Political Conflict (Princeton University Press), which won the William H. Riker Prize for the best book in political economy in 2002, and High Stakes: The Political Economy of US Trade Sanctions (Cambridge University Press). His recent papers have addressed the measurement of barriers to international trade, attitudes toward trade and immigration among voters, connections between globalization and democ­ratization, and questions concerning labor and environmental standards and the ethical labeling of traded products. Current projects include field experiments testing the impact of ethical certification and labeling programs in developing countries and consumer demand for ethically labeled products.

Jennifer Hochschild (PhD, Yale University, 1979), joint appointment in the Department of African and African American Studies. She also has lectureships in the Kennedy School of Government and at the Graduate School of Education. Hochschild studies the inter­section of American politics and political philosophy—particularly in the areas of race, ethnicity, and immigration—and educational policy. She also works on issues in public opinion, political culture, and American polit­ical history. Hochschild is the author of The American Dream and the Public Schools (2003); Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (1995); The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation (1984); and What’s Fair: American Beliefs about Distributive Justice (1981). She is a co-author or co-editor of other books, most recently Bringing Outsiders In: Transatlantic Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation (2009). Her current project is tentatively entitled Blurring Racial Boundaries: Skin Color, Immigration, Multira­cialism, and DNA. Hochschild is the founding editor of Perspectives on Politics, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a former vice-president of the American Political Science Association, a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Russell Sage Founda­tion, and a former member of the Board of Overseers of the General Social Survey. Before coming to Harvard, Hochschild taught at Duke, Columbia, and Princeton Universities.

Stanley Hoffmann (Doctorate of Law, Univer­sity of Paris, 1953), the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor. He was the chairman of Harvard’s Center for European Studies from its creation in 1969 until 1995. Born in Vienna in 1928, Hoffmann lived and studied in France from 1929 to 1955; he has taught at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris, from which he graduated, and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. At Harvard, he teaches French intellectual and political history, American foreign policy, European foreign policy, post-World War Two European history, the sociology of war, international politics, ethics and world affairs, modern political ideologies, and the develop­ment of the modern state. Among Hoffmann’s publications are Decline or Renewal? France Since the 30s (1974); Primacy or World Order: American Foreign Policy since the Cold War (1978); Duties Beyond Borders (1981); Janus and Minerva (1986); The European Sisyphus (1995); The Ethics and Politics of Humani­tarian Intervention (1997); and World Disorders (1998); and he is co-author of The Mitter­rand Experiment (1987); The New European Community (1991); After the Cold War (1993); and Chaos and Violence (2006). His Tanner lectures of 1993, on the French nation and nationalism, were published in 1994. Hoff­mann is working on a book on ethics and international affairs and a book on Albert Camus.

Nahomi Ichino (PhD, Stanford, 2008) is an assistant professor of government. Her research and teaching interests include African politics, development, and comparative political insti­tutions, with particular emphasis on political parties and electoral politics. She is currently engaged in research on electoral fraud, intra­party politics, and the development of political parties in Ghana and Nigeria. She is a faculty associate at the Weatherhead Center for Inter­national Affairs and the Institute for Quanti­tative Social Science and was previously and Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.

Torben Iversen is Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy. His research and teaching interests include comparative political economy, electoral politics, and applied formal theory. He is the author of Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare (CUP 2005), Contested Economic Institutions (CUP 1999), coauthor (with Frances Rosenbluth) of Patriarchy Explained: The Rise and Fall of Gender Inequality (Yale UP, forthcoming), and co-editor (with Jonas Pontusson and David Soskice) of Unions, Employers and Central Bankers (CUP 2000). He is also the author or co-author of more than two dozen articles in leading journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Annual Review of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Interna­tional Organization, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Public Choice, Quarterly Journal of Economics, World Politics, and numerous edited volumes. He has been a Hoover National Fellow (1999-2000) and a Guggenheim Fellow (2008-9), and his work has won five American Political Science Association prizes including Best Book on European Politics and Society, the Luebbert Best Article Award, and the Gabriel Almond Best Dissertation Award. His current work focuses on the comparative political economy of distribution, representation, and economic performance, and he is working on a book-length project with David Soskice on the political representation of economic interests.

Alastair Iain Johnston (PhD, University of Michigan, 1993) is the Laine Professor of China in World Affairs. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1993. His research and teaching interests include socialization in international institutions, the analysis of identity in the social sciences, and ideational sources of strategic choice, mostly with reference to China and the Asia-Pacific region. He is the author of Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History (Princeton 1995) and Social States: China in International Institutes, 1980-2000 (Princeton 2008), and co-editor of Engaging China: The Management of an Emerging Power (Routledge 1999), New Directions in the Study of China’s Foreign Policy (Stanford 2006), Crafting Cooperation: Regional Institutions in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge 2007), and Measuring Identity: A Guidebook for Social Scientists (Cambridge forthcoming). He is co-director of the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program.

Gary King (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984) is the David Florence Professor of Government at Harvard Univer­sity. He also serves as Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. King has been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2004), Fellow of the American Statistical Association (2009), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998), Fellow of the Society for Political Methodology (2008), Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2004), President of the Society for Political Methodology (1997-1999), and Vice President of the American Political Science Association (2003-2004). He was also appointed a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation (1994-1995), Visiting Fellow at Oxford (1994), and Senior Science Advisor to the World Health Organization (1998-2003). King has won the Warren Miller Prize (2008), the McGraw-Hill Award (2006), the Durr Award (2005), the Gosnell Prize (1999 and 1997), the Outstanding Statistical Application Award (2000), the Donald Campbell Award (1997), the Eulau Award (1995), the Mills Award (1993), the Pi Sigma Alpha Award (2005, 1998, and 1993), the APSA Research Software Award (2005, 1997, 1994, and 1992), the Okidata Best Research Software Award (1999), and the Okidata Best Research Web Site Award (1999), among others. His more than 115 journal articles, 15 open source software packages, and 8 books span most aspects of political methodology, many fields of political science, and several other scholarly disciplines.

King’s work is widely read across scholarly fields and beyond academia. He was listed as the most cited political scientist of his cohort; among the group of “political scientists who have made the most important theoretical contributions” to the discipline “from its beginnings in the late-19th century to the present”; and on ISI’s list of the most highly cited researchers across the social sciences. His work on legislative redistricting has been used in most American states by legislators, judges, lawyers, political parties, minority groups, and private citizens, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court. His work on inferring individual behavior from aggregate data has been used in as many states by these groups, and in many other practical contexts. His contribution to methods for achieving cross-cultural compa­rability in survey research have been used in surveys in over eighty countries by researchers, governments, and private concerns. King led an evaluation of the Mexican universal health insurance program, which includes the largest randomized health policy experiment to date. The statistical methods and software he devel­oped are used extensively in academia, govern­ment, consulting, and private industry.

King has had many students and postdocs, many of whom now hold faculty positions at leading universities. He has collaborated with more than seventy scholars, including many of his students, on research for publica­tion. He has served on 23 editorial boards; on the governing councils of the American Political Science Association, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, the Society for Political Methodology, and the Midwest Political Science Association; and on several National Research Council and National Science Foundation panels.

King’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, the National Institute of Aging, the Global Forum for Health Research, and centers, corporations, foundations, and other federal agencies.

Steven Levitsky is Professor of Government at Harvard University. His research interests include political parties, variation in insti­tutional strength, informal institutions, and political regimes and regime change, with a focus on Latin America. He is author of Trans­forming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective (2003) and co-editor of Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness (2005) and Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America (2006). Current research includes a book on the emergence and trajectory of competitive authoritarian regimes in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-com­munist Eurasia, as well as a project on the rise of the Left in contemporary Latin America.

Roderick MacFarquhar (PhD, London School of Economics, 1980) is the Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, and Professor of Government. He has been Chair of the Government Department (1998-­2004) and Director of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research (1986-1992; 2005-06). MacFarquhar’s publications include The Hundred Flowers Campaign and the Chinese Intellectuals; The Sino-Soviet Dispute; China under Mao; The Forbidden City; Sino-American Relations, 1949-1971; The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao; the final two volumes of the Cambridge History of China (with the late John Fairbank); Perspectives on China: Four Anniversaries; The Politics of China 2nd ed: The Eras of Mao and Deng; The Paradox of China’s Post-Mao Reforms; a trilogy, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution; and Mao’s Last Revolution (co-authored with Michael Schoenhals). He was the founding editor of The China Quarterly, has been a fellow at Columbia University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and has had grants from the Rockefeller, Ford and Leverhulme Foundations. In previous personae, he has been a journalist, a TV reporter, and a Member of Parliament. He is working on a historical comparison of China and India.

Harvey C. Mansfield (PhD, Harvard, 1961), William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Govern­ment, studies and teaches political philosophy. He has written on Edmund Burke and the nature of political parties, on Machiavelli and the invention of indirect government, in defense of a defensible liberalism and in favor of a Constitutional American political science. He has also written on the discovery and development of the theory of executive power, and as a translator of Machiavelli and of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. His current research is a book on manliness. He was chairman of the government department from 1973-1977, has held Guggenheim and NEH fellowships, and has been a fellow at the National Humanities Center. He is a Distin­guished Research Fellow at the Hoover Institu­tion. He has hardly left Harvard since his first arrival in 1949, and has been on the faculty since 1962.

Jens Meierhenrich (D.Phil., Oxford, 2002) is Assistant Professor of Government and of Social Studies at Harvard University. He is a member of Harvard’s University Committee on Human Rights Studies, and has conducted field research in several international organi­zations as well as in South Africa, Rwanda, Japan, Cambodia, Germany, and Argentina. He recently served in Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and has previously worked with Luis Moreno Ocampo, the Chief Pros­ecutor of the International Criminal Court. A Rhodes Scholar, Professor Meierhenrich is the author of The Legacies of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and is currently completing a genocide trilogy, comprising The Rationality of Genocide; The Structure of Genocide; and The Culture of Genocide (all forthcoming from Princeton University Press). He is also preparing, for Oxford University Press, Genocide: A Reader and Genocide: A Very Short Introduction. His articles have appeared in numerous journals, including the American Journal of International Law, Law & Social Inquiry, Constitutional Political Economy, Ratio Juris, the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Human Rights Quarterly, Ethics & International Affairs, Electoral Studies, the Journal of Conflict and Security Law, the Journal of Genocide Research as well as several edited volumes.

Eric Nelson (AB ‘99; PhD, University of Cambridge, 2002) is assistant professor of Government. He is chiefly interested in the history of republican political theory, the reception of classical political thought in early-modern Europe, theories of property, and the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. Nelson is the author of The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and editor of Hobbes’s translations of the Iliad and Odyssey for the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes (The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2008). His newest book, The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. His work may also be found in Renaissance Quarterly, Political Theory, The Historical Journal, Milton Studies, The Oxford Hand­book of Political Theory, and The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy. Nelson has also been a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a British Marshall Scholar.

Ryan J. Owens (PhD, Washington Univer­sity in St. Louis, 2008; JD, University of Wisconsin, 2001) is an Assistant Professor of Government. His research interests focus on American political institutions with an emphasis on strategic behavior on the United States Supreme Court and the federal circuit courts of appeals. Owens has received grants from the Center for Empirical Research in the Law, the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library, and the Southern Political Science Association. From 2001-2003, Owens prac­ticed telecommunications law in Madison, Wisconsin.