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.
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Race and
Regionalism in the Politics of Taxation in
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.
“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
“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.,
“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
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
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
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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 (
Introduction to Research Methods
(
Ethnic Politics (
The Politics of AIDS around the
World (Princeton University junior research workshop, Fall 2002, Fall 2007).
Politics in the Developing
Countries (
Strategies
for Field Research in Comparative and International Politics. (Short course
delivered at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association,
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,
Faculty
Associate,
Member,
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.