evan s. lieberman associate professor, department of politics princeton university 239 corwin hall princeton, nj 08544 tel: 609-258-6833 fax: 609-258-1110 esl@princeton.edu	biosketch cv (html)/(pdf) publications/papers teaching collaborators only
I am an associate professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, where I conduct research and teach in the field of comparative politics. I am the faculty director of the Princeton AIDS Initiative, and a faculty associate at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Princeton Center for Globalization and Governance, the Center for Health & Wellbeing, and the Program in African Studies. My research is mainly concerned with two sets of questions, exploring the relationship between institutions, patterns of political competition and development: First, what accounts for distinctive modes of governance in low- and middle-income countries? Why, for example, have different national governments responded to the AIDS pandemic in different ways? Why do some sets of actors, and not others, mobilize to prevent the spread of infectious diseases? And why have governments taxed citizens in different ways and with varied levels of success across countries and over-time? Information about my current work on the Governance of Infectious Disease can be found here. Second, what are the causes and consequences of different manifestations of identity politics? Why, for example, does “race” matter in some societies but not in others? Why do some states systematically categorize their citizens according to ethnic identity? And how does this influence the governance outcomes mentioned above? In addition, I work on developing methods and strategies for comparative and historical research, including approaches that integrate statistical and more qualitative analyses. I have conducted extensive research on South Africa and Brazil, and I have research and teaching interests concerned with other parts of Africa, Latin America, and Asia.