I am Associate Professor of political science at the University of Florida. I received my PhD in political science from the University of Washington. My current research and teaching focus on the politics of resource wealth and on ethnic and nationalist mobilization in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States. My first book, Hard Times in the Lands of Plenty, was published in 2007 by Cornell University Press. A second, co-authored, book on oil and politics is underway and likely due out in mid-2020. A third, sole-authored book on national identity, is in early development and I presented preliminary materials from it at the 2019 meetings of the American Political Science Association in Washington, DC.

You can find information about my research at the link above left. 
My Google Scholar page is here. My SSRN page is here. My Dataverse is here. My academia.edu page is here. 


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