Curriculum VitaeThomas B. Pepinsky Department of Political Science University of Colorado at Boulder Ketchum Room 102 333 UCB Boulder, CO 80309-0333 pepinsky@colorado.edu spot.colorado.edu/~pepinsky ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor of Government, Cornell University, August 2008- Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado-Boulder, August 2007-August 2008 EDUCATION Ph.D. (with Distinction), Political Science, Yale University, May 2007 A.B. (magna cum laude), Brown University, May 2001
MAJOR GRANTS Co-Principal Investigator, Smith Richardson Foundation Grant, Islamic Radicalism: A Threat to Indonesian Democracy? September 2007-August 2009 ($160,242) Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, US Department of Education, September 2004-August 2005 ($23,000) SMALL GRANTS AND AWARDS Course Development Grant for "Islam and Development in the Comparative Perspective," Center for Asian Studies, the University of Colorado-Boulder, 2007 Samuel K. Bushnell Fellowship, Yale University, 2007 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, US Department of Education and the Southeast Asian Summer Studies Institute, 2004 Political Economy Research Grant, Georg Walter Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy, 2004, 2006 Summer Research Grant, Yale University Council on Southeast Asian Studies, 2004, 2006 University Fellowship, Yale University, 2001 Phi Beta Kappa Society, Alpha of Rhode Island, 2001 William Gaston Premium Scholarship, Brown University, 2001 Royce Fellowship, Brown University, 2000 Integrated Graduate Education and Research Training Initiative, Brown University, 2000 Undergraduate Teaching and Research Assistantship, Brown University, 1999 PUBLICATIONS 2008 (forthcoming). "Capital Mobility and Coalitional Politics: Authoritarian Regimes and Economic Adjustment in Southeast Asia." World Politics. 2008 (forthcoming). "Institutions, Economic Recovery, and Macroeconomic Vulnerability in Indonesia and Malaysia." in East Asia: Ten Years after the Crisis, edited by Andrew MacIntyre, T.J. Pempel, and John Ravenhill (under contract at Cornell University Press). 2007. "Autocracy, Elections, and Fiscal Policy in Malaysia." Studies in Comparative International Development, 42(1-2). 136-163. 2007. "Malaysia: Turnover Without Change." Journal of Democracy, 18(1). 113-127. 2006. "Estimation of Technical Parameters." (with John E. Roemer) Chapter 6 of Democracy, Education and Equality: Graz-Schumpeter Lectures. Econometric Society Monographs No. 40. New York: Cambridge University Press. 109-128. 2005. "From Agents to Outcomes: Simulation in International Relations." European Journal of International Relations, 11(3). 367-394. 2001. "The Linguistic Status of Filler Syllables in Children's Early Speech." (with Katherine Demuth and Brian Roark) in Proceedings from the 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA: Cascadilla Press. WORKING PAPERS (available here) 2008. "Capital Controls and Democratization in the Developing World" Revised and resubmit, Review of International Political Economy. First presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (Philadelphia). Revised version presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (Chicago). 2008. "Why Is Foreign Aid So Popular in Europe? Mass Opinion toward Development Assistance in 15 Countries" (with Andy Baker and Jennifer Fitzgerald). First presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (Chicago); revised version presented at the Domestic Preferences and Foreign Economic Policy Conference, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Princeton University. 2008. "Into the Arms of the Rebels? Aerial Bombardment, Indiscriminate Violence, and Territorial Control in the Vietnam War." (with Matt Kocher and Stathis Kalyvas) Presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association (San Francisco); revised version to be presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (Boston). 2008. "Islam and Redistribution: A Test of Competing Theories." (with Boz Welborne) Presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (Chicago). 2008. "Ownership and Opportunity: Why Bankers in Emerging Markets Favor Financial Internationalization." 2008. "Do Currency Crises Cause Capital Account Liberalization?" 2008. "Durable Authoritarianism as a Self-Enforcing Coalition." Presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (Chicago). 2008. "How to Code." Working Paper No. 18, International Political Science Association, Committee on Concepts and Methods. Presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (Chicago). 2004. "Electoral Rules, Coalitions, and Price Levels: A Re-Examination of the Evidence." (with Tarek E. Masoud) Presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (Chicago). 2003. "Ethnic Politics and Political Participation in a Lao American Refugee Community." Prepared for the 2003 Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association (Providence). 2003. "Locating Theravada Buddhism in a Lao American Community." Prepared for the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Society of the Anthropology of Religion (Providence). n.d. "Constitutional Change and Business-Government Relations in Southeast Asia." (with Allen Hicken) In progress. n.d. "International Finance in Asia." In progress. n.d. "Political Islam in Indonesia." (with R. William Liddle and Saiful Mujani) In progress. RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS Institute for Strategic and International Studies-Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Summer 2006 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (Selangor, Malaysia), Winter 2004-Summer 2005 Freedom Institute: Center for Democracy, Nationalism and Market Economy Studies (Jakarta), Fall 2004-Winter 2005 RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta (July 2008), Princeton University (April 2008), University of California-Berkeley (November 2006), Australian National University (July 2006), Yale University Council on Southeast Asian Studies (December 2005), Freedom Institute, Jakarta (February 2005) CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION American Political Science Assocation, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 Midwest Political Science Association, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 Association for Asian Studies, 2008 New England Political Science Association, 2003 Society for the Anthropology of Religion, 2003 The Child Phonology Conference, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2001 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 2000 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Manuscript Reviewer for Political Studies, Review of International Political Economy Co-Organizer: Workshop on Islam, Regionalism, and New Institutions in Indonesia, March 3, 2007; Workshop on Islam, Democracy, and Freedom in Contemporary Indonesia, April 8, 2006 TEACHING University of Colorado-Boulder: Government and Politics of Southeast Asia, Islam and Development in the Comparative Perspective Yale University (teaching assistant): Politics and Markets, Nationalism, Introduction to Comparative Politics, and Introduction to International Relations. SKILLS Statistical Software: R/S+, Stata, SPSS, Gauss, Eviews, LIMDEP, MINITAB, some knowledge of many others Other Research Software: Access, Filemaker, Mathematica, TeX, various data format conversion tools Languages: Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia (fluent), German (good reading and speaking), French (good reading and speaking), Vietnamese (basic reading and speaking), Spanish (basic reading) REFERENCES
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