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Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. Political Science (Expected 2010) Binghamton University(S.U.N.Y)
Sub fields: World Politics, Comparative Politics
Dissertation title: "Know then thyself: Domestic
Delegtation, Information, Leadership Uncertainty and
Foreign Policy Decisions during Crisis Bargaining"
Dissertation Committee: David Clark, Benjamin
Fordham, Olga Shvetsova, Katri Sieberg
M.A. Political Science (May 2008) Binghamton University(S.U.N.Y)
Sub fields: World Politics, Comparative Politics
M.A. International Relations (June 2003) School of International Studies, Jawaharlal
Nehru niversity, New Delhi, India
B.A. Journalism (June 2001) University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
Research and Teaching Interest
World Politics
- Bargaining and Strategic Models of Interstate Conflict and Cooperation
- Foreign Policy Analysis
- Domestic Actors and Foreign Policy
- Democratic Transitions and Foreign Policy
- Human Rights and Intrastate Conflict
- Interaction between domestic violence and governmental repression
- Rebel opposition tactics
- Democratization, democratic institutions and dictatorships
Exit Costs, Repression and Internal Cohesiveness of Resistance Movements, with Lucie Spanihelova,
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 2009.
Delegation, Agency Loss and Domestic Informational Asymmetries: Decision-making with Crisis
Bargaining, Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 2009.
Delegation, Domestic Informational Asymmetries and Leader Beliefs about Costs of War in Crisis
Bargaining: A Formal Model of Crisis Bargaining, Annual Convention of International Studies
Association, New York, 2009.
Know then thyself: Delegation and Bargaining under Complete Information, Poster Presentation at
the Annual Meeting of the Peace Science Society, Claremont, CA, 2008.
Getting the Message: Media in the Audience Cost Puzzle, Annual Meeting of the American Political
Science Association, Chicago, IL, 2007.
Costs of Exit, Strategies of Collective Action and Resistance Group Durability, with Lucie
Spanihelova and Brandon Zicha,
2007.
Signaling Credible Commitment: Transitions and Conflict Reciprocation, Annual Meeting
of Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 2007.
More Conflict in the Middle: Anocratic Regimes and Transitions through Anocracy and the Prospects
for Civil War, with Patrick Regan and Sam Bell,
Conference, Amsterdam, 2006.
Working Papers
Dissertation: Know then thyself: Domestic Delegtation, Information, Leadership Uncertainty and
Foreign Policy Decisions during Crisis Bargaining.
Interstate Conflict Involvement and its Effect on Governmental Repression.
Getting the Message: Media in the Audience Cost Puzzle
Costs of Exit: Screening Strategies and Resistance Group Durability
Signaling Credible Commitment: Transitions and Conflict Reciprocation
Methods Training
Participant, NSF's Summer Institute in Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models at University
of Michigan, 2009
Participant, International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics, 14th
Graduate Student Workshop in Experimental Economics, Chapman University, 2009
Participant, Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research summer
program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, Ann Arbor, MI, 2007
Research Design, Statistics, Extensions of Linear Models, Maximum Likelihood
Estimation, Basic and Advanced Game Theory, Formal Theory, Spatial Models,
Experimental methods
Teaching Experience
Instructor
PLSC 380M - Strategy of War and Peace (Distance Learning), Summer 2009
PLSC 380E - Strategy in International Politics, Fall 2008
PLSC 486C - International Politics through Film, Summer 2008
PLSC 486R - International Relations in a Changing World, Spring 2007
Graduate Teaching Assistant
PLSC 117 - Introduction to World Politics, Spring 2008
PLSC 113 - Introduction to Comparative Politics, Fall 2007
PLSC 111 - Introduction to American Politics, Fall 2005, 2006
Research Experience
Research Assistant, The Institutions and Elections Project Dataset, Spring 2006,
Summer 2006 and 2007
Research Assitant, The Human Rights and Cultural Relatavism Project, School of
International Studies, Jawharlal Nehru University, India, Summer and Fall 2003.
Scholarships and Awards
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2009
National Science Foundation Fellowship for attendance at the EITM summer Institute, Michigan
University, 2009
Binghamton University, GSEU Professional Development Award, 2007
Graduate Scholars Fellowship, Binghamton University, Department of Political Science, 2005 - 2006
UGC-NET Accreditation for eligibility to teach undergraduate at Indian Universities granted by the
University Grants Commission, India
First in class, Journalism Program, University of Delhi, 1998-1999
Other Professional Activities
Participant, Journeys in World Politics Workshop, University of Iowa, October 2008
Participant, World Politics Workshop, Department of Political Science, Binghamton University
Participant, Comparative and American Politics Workshop, Department of Political Science,
Binghamton University
Relevant Skills
Languages: Hindi and English
Computing: STATA, LaTeX, QuarkXpress, Z-tree
Professional Memberships
American Political Science Association
Peace Science Association
International Studies Association
Non-Academic Professional Experience
Copy Editor and Reporter, The Pioneer, New Delhi, India, May 2000, May 2001
Freelance Reporter and Editor, OneWorld South Asia, New Delhi, India, January 2001 - May 2001
Intern, The Pioneer, New Delhi, India, August 1999, May 2000
Intern, Down to Earth, New Delhi, India, Summer 1999
Freelance Reporter and Editor, ONGCReports, New Delhi, India
References
David Clark Department of Political Science
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY
Benjamin Fordham Department of Political Science
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY
Olga Shvetsova Department of Political Science
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY
Katri Sieberg The Erkko Chair in North American Studies
Department of History and Philosophy
University of Tampere, Finland
