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Curriculum Vitae


Thomas 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
  • with Honors in Linguistics
  • with Honors in International Relations
Additional training
  • qualitative methods at the Arizona State University Consortium for Qualitative Research Methods, Winter 2005-2006
  • 5th and 6th Semester Indonesian at the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Summer 2004

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

Frances McCall Rosenbluth
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
Yale University
P.O. Box 208301
New Haven, CT 06520-8301

Stathis N. Kalyvas
Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
Yale University
P.O. Box 208301
New Haven, CT 06520-8301

José Antonio Cheibub
Associate Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
702 South Wright
Urbana, IL 61801

R. William Liddle
Professor of Political Science
The Ohio State University
2038 Derby Hall
154 N Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210



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