{"id":1401,"date":"2020-12-21T03:22:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T08:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/?page_id=1401"},"modified":"2025-12-11T00:04:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:04:22","slug":"academic-positions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/?page_id=1401","title":{"rendered":"BACKGROUND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #302c2c\"><span style=\"color: #b31242\">University of California-Berkeley,<\/span> PhD Sociology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"color: #b31242\">Yale University, <\/span>Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, MacMillan Center for International Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #302c2c\"><span style=\"color: #000080\"><span style=\"color: #b31242\">Princeton University, <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Postdoctoral Fellow, Niehaus Center for Governance and Globalization.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><span style=\"color: #b31242\">University College Dublin,<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"color: #000080\"> Lecturer, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">School of Politics &amp; Sociology \/ <\/span><\/span>Director of the PhD Program in Politics and International Relations.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #b31242\">Wesleyan University,<\/span> Professor of Government (July 1, 2025-present; tenured in 2017).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #b31d1d\">Service\/leadership:<\/span> Co-Chair, College of Social Studies; Chair, University Educational Policy Committee; Member, Advisory Council; Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees; Faculty Advisor, Graduate Liberal Studies Program; Faculty Member, Tenure Review and Appeals Board; Faculty Member, Budget Priorities Committee; Advisor Board, Fries Center for Global Studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Faculty Fellowships<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ad0c0c\">Wesleyan University College of the Environment Think Tank<\/span>, Faculty Fellow (2025-2026)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #b31242\">Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies,<\/span> Cologne, Scholar in Residence (Spring 2024)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #b31242\">Freie Universit\u00e4t, School of Business and Economics,<\/span> Berlin, Visiting Researcher (Summer 2023)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #302c2c\"><span style=\"color: #b31242\">The MaxPo Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies,<\/span> Paris, Research Fellow (<span style=\"color: #000080\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Summer 2018)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #302c2c\"><span style=\"color: #b31242\">Yale University,<\/span> MacMillan Center, Visiting Faculty Fellow (<span style=\"color: #000080\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">2015-2016)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #302c2c\"><span style=\"color: #b31242\">Wesleyan University,<\/span> Center for Humanities, Faculty Fellow (<span style=\"color: #000080\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Fall 2014)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of California-Berkeley, PhD Sociology. Yale University, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, MacMillan Center for International Studies. Princeton University, Postdoctoral Fellow, Niehaus Center for Governance and Globalization. University College Dublin, Lecturer, School of Politics &amp; Sociology \/ Director of the PhD Program in Politics and International Relations. 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