EVAN S. LIEBERMAN

Department of Politics, Princeton University

239 Corwin Hall

Princeton, NJ 08544

Phone: (609) 258-6833 / Fax: (609) 258-1110

Email:  ESL@Princeton.edu / Web: www.princeton.edu/~esl

 

 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Princeton University, Department of Politics.

-      Associate Professor (with tenure), 2008-.

-      Assistant Professor, 2002-8.

-      Richard Stockton Bicentennial Preceptor (honorific appointment), 2006-9.

 

Wagner School of Public Policy, New York University.

-      Visiting Fellow, 2006-7.

 

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Yale University.

-      Health Policy Scholar, 2000-02.

 

 

EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley.

-                                              M.A. Political Science, 1995

-                                              Ph.D., Political Science Comparative Politics and African Politics with Distinction, 2000.

 

Princeton University

-      B.A. Woodrow Wilson School Undergraduate Program in International Affairs and Public Policy and Certificate in African Studies, Cum laude, 1992.

 

 

PUBLICATION PRIZES

-      Mattei Dogan Prize for the best book published in the field of comparative research, awarded by the Society for Comparative Research, 2004.

 

-      Gabriel A. Almond Prize for the best dissertation in the field of Comparative Politics filed in 2000 or 2001, awarded by the American Political Science Association, 2002.

 

-      Mary Parker Follett award for the best article or book chapter for the year: “Causal Inference in Historical Institutional Analysis,” awarded by the American Political Science Association, Politics and History section, 2002

 


 

 

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Boundaries of Contagion: How Ethnic Politics Have Shaped Government Responses to AIDS. (Princeton University Press, 2009).

 

Race and Regionalism in the Politics of Taxation in Brazil and South Africa. (Cambridge University Press, Studies in Comparative Politics, 2003).

 

 

Scholarly Articles and Book Chapters

“Bridging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide: Best Practices in the Development of Historically-Oriented Replication Databases,” forthcoming in Annual Review of Political Science, 2010.

 

“The Politics of Demanding Sacrifice: Applying Insights from Fiscal Sociology to the Study of AIDS Policy and State Capacity.” In The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative Perspective, ( I Martin, A Mehrotra, M Prasad, eds. Cambridge University Press, 2009), 105-19.

 

“Relative Response: ranking country responses to HIV and AIDS,” (with Chris Desmond – first author, Anita Alban, & Annia-Mia Ekström) (2008/9).  Journal of Health and Human Rights, (v10,n2), 105-119.

 

“Ethnic Politics, Risk, and Policy-Making: A Cross-National Statistical Analysis of Government Responses to HIV/AIDS,” Comparative Political Studies (v40n12, 2007), 1407-1432.

 

“Boundary Politics and HIV/AIDS Policy in Brazil and South Africa,” (with Varun Gauri) Studies in Comparative International Development (Fall v41n3, 2006), 47-73.

 

“Nested Analysis as a Mixed-Method Strategy for Comparative Research,” American Political Science Review (August 2005), 99, 3: 435-52.

 

“Tobacco Control in Comparative Perspective: Eight Nations in Search of an Explanation,” (with Theodore J. Marmor), in Unfiltered: Tobacco Policy, Politics and Public Health in Eight Industrialized Nations.(Eric Feldman and Ronald Bayer eds., Harvard University Press, 2004), 275-291.

 

“How South African Citizens Evaluate Their Economic Obligations to the State.” Journal of Development Studies. (March 2002), 38, 3: 37-62

 

“Taxation Data as Indicators of State-Society Relations: Possibilities and Pitfalls in Cross-National Research.” Studies in Comparative International Development. (Winter 2001), 36, 4: 89-115.

 

National Political Community and the Politics of Income Taxation in Brazil and South Africa in the 20th Century.” Politics & Society. (December 2001), 29,4: 515-555.

 

Causal Inference in Historical Institutional Analysis: A Specification of Periodization Strategies.” Comparative Political Studies. (November 2001), 34,9: 1011-1035.

Re-printed in: Alan Sica, ed. Comparative Methods in the Social Sciences SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods series. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2005.

 

Organisational Cloaking in Post-Apartheid Southern Africa: The Southern African Development Community (SADC),” Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa (1997), 34: 86-107.

 

 

Reviews and Newsletter Contributions

 

“Moving the Doormat to the Main Menu: Case Study Research Methods in the Social Science Toolkit,” remarks from the APSA 2007 Roundtable on John Gerring’s, Case Study Research: Principles and Practices, forthcoming in the Qualitative Methods Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Qualitative Methods.

 

Review of African Politics in Comparative Perspective (By Goran Hyden), Journal of Politics (February 2007), 259-60.

 

 “Strategies for Field Research,” Qualitative Methods Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Qualitative Methods, 2:1 (Spring 2004).

 

“Spotlight on Research,” American Political Science Association Graduate Student Newsletter (v2, n1 Spring 2003).

 

“Nested Analysis in Cross-National Research,” APSA-Comparative Politics Newsletter, (Winter 2003), 14, 1: 17-20.

 

“Paying for ‘Us’ or for ‘Them?’ Attitudes Towards Income Tax Compliance in the ‘New’ South Africa.” IDASA Public Opinion Service Report No. 6, October, 1998.

 

“Beyond a Political Solution to Apartheid: Economic and Social Policy Proposals for a Postapartheid South Africa,” Princeton, N.J., Center of International Studies Princeton University, 1993. Sole editor and author of 2/6 chapters.

 

Newspaper Articles

 “Raising Funds for Provincial Government: Can Taxes Breathe Life into the Provinces?” (With Albert Van Zyl). Business Day (September 23, 1998).

 

“Should the Poor Sacrifice More to the Taxman?” Reconstruct in The Sunday Independent (May 24, 1998).

 

 

 

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

External

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Program Postdoctoral Fellowship, Yale University, 2000-2.

MacArthur Foundation. Politics of Cultural Identity Fellowship, administered by UC Berkeley, 1998-9.

Social Science Research Council. International Dissertation Research (alternate) Fellowship, 1998-9.

Fulbright Fellowship, South Africa, 1997-8.

National Science Foundation. Dissertation Enhancement Grant, 1997-8.

US Dept of Education. Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) yearlong and summer fellowships to study Xhosa, 1995-6.

Internal

Grand Challenges / Infectious Disease grant for teaching/research in South Africa, Princeton University, 2008-9.

Richard Stockton Bicentennial Preceptorship, Princeton University, 2006-9.

Bobst Center research grant, Princeton University, 2005-6.

Center for Health and Well-Being research grant, Princeton University, 2005.

Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Science research grant, Princeton University, 2002-03; 2005-06; 2007-8.

250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education grant, Princeton University, 2003-04.

Center for International Studies research grant, Princeton University, summer 2003.

Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Pilot Project Development Grant Award, Yale University, 2001-02.

 

 

MEDIA APPEARENCES

Moderator, By The People, A National Conversation About America in the World. Production of McNeil/Lehrer Newshour, Original airdate, May 22, 2003.

 

 

CONSULTING

Scientific Advisor for AIDS Accountability International (Stockholm, Sweden), an NGO that aims to advocate for greater policy responsiveness on HIV/AIDS based on a cross-country rating mechanism, 2006-present.

Research Associate at the Institute for Democracy in South Africa – Idasa (Capetown, South Africa), a research and advocacy NGO. Provided training and analysis for Parliamentarians and Civil Society organizations on budgetary issues. Findings from my research were presented in the National Assembly, 1997-8.

Management Consultant, William Kent International (Arlington, VA). Developed “globalization strategies” for Fortune 500 companies, including in the Aerospace, Industrial Abrasives, Electronics and Consumer Product Industries. Included travel to over 20 countries, 1992-4.

 

COURSES TAUGHT

Comparative Politics Research Workshop (Princeton University graduate workshop, 2006-7).

The Politics of Race in Comparative Perspective (Princeton University undergraduate seminar, Spring 2004).

Qualitative Methods (Princeton University graduate seminar, Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Spring 2005).

Introduction to Research Methods (Princeton University undergraduate lecture, Fall 2007).

Ethnic Politics (Princeton University graduate seminar, planned for Spring 2008).

The Politics of AIDS around the World (Princeton University junior research workshop, Fall 2002, Fall 2007).

Politics in the Developing Countries (Princeton University undergraduate lecture, Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Spring 2005).

Strategies for Field Research in Comparative and International Politics. (Short course delivered at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA Aug.29, 2001, and Philadelphia August, 2003; Institute for Qualitative Research Methods, Phoenix,Arizona January 2004)

 

SELECTED CONFERENCE AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS (2002-8)

Africa Centre (Mtubatuba, South Africa)

American Political Science Association Meetings (Boston, MA)

American Political Science Association Meetings (Chicago, IL)

American Political Science Association Meetings (Philadelphia, PA)

Brown University (Providence, RI)

Center for Strategic and International Studies/Woodrow Wilson School (Washington, D.C.)

Columbia University, Comparative Politics Seminar (New York, NY)

Columbia University, Mailman School Workshop on ARV Scale-Up (New York, NY)

George Washington University (Washington, DC)

Georgetown University (Washington, DC)

Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)

Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex (Brighton, England)

International Political Science Association Meetings (Durban, South Africa)

Laboratory in Comparative Ethnic Processes/Columbia University (New York, NY)

Laboratory in Comparative Ethnic Processes/Makerere University (Kampala, Uganda)

Laboratory in Comparative Ethnic Processes/Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)

Laboratory in Comparative Ethnic Processes/University of Washington (Seattle, WA)

New York University, Wagner School of Public Policy (New York, NY)

Northwestern University, Thunder of History/Fiscal Sociology Conference (Evanston, IL)

Politics of HIV/AIDS Policy in Developing Countries/Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)

Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholars Annual Meeting (Aspen, CO)

School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University (Washington, DC)

Social Science Research Council workshop on the study of HIV/AIDS (New York, NY)

Stanford University, Comparative Politics Seminar (Stanford, CA)

University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)

University of Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa)

University of Pennsylvania, Comparative Politics Seminar (Philadelphia, PA)

University of Toronto, Comparative Politics Seminar (Toronto, ON)

Workshop on Multilevel Modeling/ Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)

World Bank, Social Science and Policy Seminar Series (Washington, DC)

Yale University, Comparative Politics Seminar (New Haven, CT)

 

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Faculty Director, Founder, Princeton AIDS Initiative (2003-).

Faculty Associate, Princeton University Center for Health & Wellbeing (2003-).

Faculty Associate, Princeton University Center for International Studies/ Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (2002-).

Member, Princeton University Interdepartmental Committee for the Program in African Studies (2003-).

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE

Politics & History Section of the American Political Science Association: David J. Greenstone Award Committee, 2008; Executive Committee, 2008-9; Co-chair, Program for the 2004 meetings.

Qualitative and Mixed Methods section of the American Political Science Association: Nominating Committee, 2008.

Laboratory in Comparative Ethnic Processes (LiCEP) Working Group: Member and organizer of Spring 2006 meetings.

World Politics. Associate Editor, 2003-

South African Legal Service Foundation: Member, Board of Directors, 2008-

Reviewer, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, Comparative Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Lynne Rienner, National Science Foundation, Political Analysis, Sage Press, Studies in Comparative International Development, World Development, World Politics.