JORDAN GANS-MORSE Department of Political Science Scott Hall, 601 University Place Evanston, IL 60208 Email: jordan.gans-morse@northwestern.edu Phone: 312-451-8930 ACADEMIC POSITION Assistant Professor, Political Science 2011-present EDUCATION Ph.D., Political Science Dissertation: Building Property Rights: Capitalists and Demand for the Rule of Law in Russia Fields: Comparative Politics, Post-Communist Politics, Methodology Honors: Ernst B. Haas Award for Best Dissertation on European Politics and Society, 2012 Peter H. Odegard Outstanding Graduate Student Award, 2006 Distinction, Comprehensive Exam in Post-Communist Politics, 2005 M.A., Economics Completed Ph.D. sequences in microeconomics and econometrics M.A., Political Science B.A., International Studies 2011 2008 2004 1999 PUBLICATIONS Threats to Property Rights in Russia: From Private Coercion to State Aggression. Post-Soviet Affairs 28, 3 (2012): 263-295. Neoliberalism: From New Liberal Philosophy to Anti-Liberal Slogan (with Taylor C. Boas). Studies in Comparative International Development 44, 2 (2009): 137-161. Economic Reforms and Democracy: Evidence of a J-Curve in Latin America (with Simeon Nichter). Comparative Political Studies 41, 10 (2008): 1398-1426. Ownership Regimes in Comparative Perspective (with Andrew Harrison Schwartz) in The Politics of Greed: How Privatization Structured Politics in Central and Eastern Europe, Andrew Harrison Schwartz. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. Searching for Transitologists: Contemporary Theories of Post-Communist Transitions and the Myth of a Dominant Paradigm. Post-Soviet Affairs 20, 4 (2004): 320-349. 1
WORKS IN PROGRESS Violence, Law, and Property Rights in the Former Soviet Union (book manuscript). Varieties of Clientelism: Machine Politics During Elections (with Sebastian Mazzuca and Simeon Nichter). Invited to Revise & Resubmit, American Journal of Political Science. Institutional Complementarities: Taxes, Banking, and Property Rights in Post-Soviet Russia. FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS American Political Science Association Ernst B. Haas Award for Best Dissertation on European Politics and Society Dispute Resolution Research Center Research Grant Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Eurasia Dissertation Support Fellowship Institute for Humane Studies Humane Studies Fellowship One-year fellowship awarded in 2008, 2009, and 2010 American Bar Foundation Law and Social Science Doctoral Fellowship National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Fellowship (Russia) National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Three-year fellowship awarded in 2004 Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Chapter Graduate Fellowship Peter H. Odegard Outstanding Graduate Student Award Department of Political Science annual award to the top student or students in cohort Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Four-year fellowship awarded in 2004 (two years declined) Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) U.S.-Russian Young Leaders for Public Service Fellowship 2012 2011 2010-2011 2008-2011 2010 2009-2010 2009 2006-2009 2009 2006 2004-2006 2003-2004 2001-2002 2
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS (CONTINUED) Institute of International Education (IIE) Fulbright Student Fellowship (Russia) (declined) Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Junior Fellows Program Phi Beta Kappa Hager Memorial Fellowship /State of Oregon Robert Byrd Scholarship 2000-2001 1999-2000 1999 1997-1999 1995-1999 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Informal Institutions (graduate seminar) Politics of Post-Soviet Russia (upper-level undergraduate course) Spring 2012 Winter 2012 Graduate Student Instructor Comparative Theories of Democratization (upper-level undergraduate course) Professor M. Steven Fish, Department of Political Science Classical Theories of Political Economy (intro-level undergraduate course) Professor Shannon Stimson, Department of Political Science Summer 2008 Fall 2005 WORK EXPERIENCE American Councils for International Education Resident Director, St. Petersburg, Russia Directed study abroad program for group of 30 American college students American Councils for International Education Student Exchange Program Recruiter, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia Conducted selection process for U.S. State Department exchange programs Corporate Executive Board Research Associate, Washington, D.C. Conducted research on best practices for corporations and government agencies Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Junior Fellow, Washington, D.C. Conducted research on post-soviet political and economic transitions National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives Research Assistant, Washington, D.C. Conducted research on corporate governance and economic inequality 3 Summer 2003 Fall 2002 2000-2001 1999-2000 Summer 1998
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS Crime and Corruption in Russian Business Conflicts. Presented at the 2012 Title VIII Regional Policy Symposium: Transnational Crime and Corruption in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, Washington, DC. April 18-20, 2012. Taxes, Banking, and Property Rights. Presented at the Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 12-15, 2012. Development of the Rule of Law: Lessons from Post-Soviet Russia. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, September 1-4, 2011. Out of Chaos? Business Conflicts and Demand for the Rule of Law in Russia. Presented at: Comparative Politics Workshop, University of Chicago. October 13, 2010. Midwest Law & Society Retreat, University of Wisconsin at Madison. October 8-9, 2010. Social Science Research Council Eurasia Program Dissertation Fellows Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. September 15-17, 2010. American Bar Foundation Research Seminar Series, Chicago, IL. February 10, 2010. The Evolution of Russian Business Conflicts and the Development of Legal Institutions. Presented at the Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 22-25, 2010. Business Disputes and the Development of Russian Legal Institutions. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, Ontario. September 3-6, 2009. Who Gets Bought? Vote Buying, Turnout Buying, and other Strategies (with Sebastian Mazzuca and Simeon Nichter). Presented at the Berkeley-Stanford Comparative Politics Conference, UC Berkeley, April 17, 2009. The Clash of Welfare Worlds: The Emergence of Continental Liberal Welfare Regimes in Postcommunist Europe (with Mitchell A. Orenstein). Presented at the Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies,Washington, DC, November 16-19, 2006. From Rallying Cry to Whipping Boy: The Concept of Neoliberalism in the Study of Development (with Taylor C. Boas). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 31-September 3, 2006. Economic Reforms and Democracy: Evidence of a J-Curve in Latin America (with Simeon Nichter). Presented at the Latin American Studies Association International Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico March 15-18, 2006. Transitioning from Transitology: Modernization Theory, Transitology, and Contemporary Theories of Post-Communist Transition. Presented at the University of Toronto s Centre for Russia and East European Studies conference, Moving Beyond Transitology, Toronto, February 5 6, 2004. 4
ADDITIONAL RESEARCH METHODS TRAINING Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute, UC Berkeley Courses on integrating formal models and empirical research in political science Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Institute, University of Michigan Courses in advanced techniques for quantitative analysis June-July 2010 July 2005 LANGUAGE SKILLS AND TRAINING Russian (fluent) UC Berkeley (two semesters) 2003-2004 Moscow State University, School of Public Administration, Moscow, Russia 2001-2002 Middlebury Summer Russian Language School, Middlebury, VT Summer 2000 Yaroslavl State University, Yaroslavl, Russia Spring 1998 St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia Summer 1997 (six semesters) 1995-1999 Polish (basic) Krakow, Poland Summer 2006 UC Berkeley (four semesters) 2004-2006 Spanish (basic) Merida, Venezuela August 2005 Antigua, Guatemala June 2005 Guanajuato, Mexico Spring 2003 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Reviewer for The American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Law & Social Inquiry, and Regulation & Governance. 5