KARISA T. CLOWARD Southern Methodist University Department of Political Science 3300 University Boulevard SMU PO Box 750117 Dallas, TX 75275-0117 Phone: (214) 768-2300 Email: kcloward@smu.edu Website: faculty.smu.edu/kcloward ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX Assistant Professor of Political Science, 2010 Present Faculty Associate, John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies, 2010 Present EDUCATION Yale University, New Haven, CT Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science, Departmental Distinction, 2010 Master of Philosophy in Political Science, 2007 Master of Arts in Political Science, 2005 University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, summa cum laude, 2003 Bachelor of Arts in Economics, summa cum laude, 2003 REFEREED BOOKS When Norms Collide: Local Responses to Activism against Female Genital Mutilation and Early Marriage. 2016. New York: Oxford University Press. REFEREED ARTICLES Elites, Exit Options, and Social Barriers to Norm Change: The Complex Case of Female Genital Mutilation. 2015. Studies in Comparative International Development 50(3): 378 407. False Commitments: Local Misrepresentation and the International Norms Against Female Genital Mutilation and Early Marriage. 2014. International Organization 68(3): 495 526.
Karisa Cloward CV 2 UNDER REVIEW Strange Bedfellows: The Personalization of NGO Government Relations. Motive, Opportunity, and the Evolution of the Kenyan NGO Sector. WORKING PAPERS The NGO Life Cycle: Organizational Survival and the International Aid Regime. Following the Money: Mission Creep in Kenyan NGOs. AWARDS Robert O. Keohane Award for best research article published in International Organization by an untenured scholar (2014) GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS Sam Taylor Fellowship, Sam Taylor Fellowship Fund of the Division of Higher Education, United Methodist General Board of Higher Education and Ministry (2015) Fellows Seminar research honorarium, Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute, Southern Methodist University (2014) John G. Tower Center Faculty Fellowship, John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies, Southern Methodist University (2013) Colin Powell Global Order and Foreign Policy Fellowship, John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies, Southern Methodist University (2012) University Research Council Grant, Southern Methodist University (2011) Samuel K. Bushnell Fellowship, Yale University (2009 2010) Yale University Dissertation Fellowship (2008 2009) Dissertation Research Grant, Institute for Social and Policy Studies and MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University (2008) Georg Walter Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy Research Grant, Yale University (Summer 2007) Yale University Doctoral Fellowship (2004 2007)
Karisa Cloward CV 3 Yale University Sterling Academic Fellowship (2004 2006) INVITED TALKS Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (April 2016) United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD (March 2016) University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA (February 2016) University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA (February 2016) CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Strange Bedfellows: The Personalization of NGO Government Relations. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association (March 2016). Strange Bedfellows: The Local Politics of NGO Government Relations. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (September 2015). The NGO Life Cycle: Organizational Birth and Death in the Kenyan Development Sector. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association (February 2015). The NGO Life Cycle: Organizational Birth and Death in the Kenyan Development Sector. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (November 2014). Following the Money: Mission Creep in Kenyan NGOs. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (August 2013). Following the Money: Mission Creep in Kenyan NGOs. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association (April 2013). A Change is Gonna Come: Local Behavioral Responses to the Transnational Campaign Against Gender-Based Violence. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association (April 2012). Jack of All Trades, Master of None: Pathologies of Grassroots NGOs. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (September 2011). A Change is Gonna Come: Shifting Micro-Level Behavior in the Transnational Campaign Against Gender-Based Violence. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (September 2010).
Karisa Cloward CV 4 Actions Speak Louder than Words: Micro-Level Responses to the Transnational Campaign on Violence Against Women. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (September 2009). Actions Speak Louder than Words: Micro-Level Responses to the Transnational Campaign Against FGM/C. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (April 2009). Actions Speak Louder than Words: Micro-Level Responses to the Transnational Campaign Against FGM/C. Presented at the MacMillan Workshop on International Relations, Yale University (March 2009). Heeding the International Call? Government Efforts to Protect Women from Harmful Traditional Practices. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association (November 2007). Heeding the International Call? Government Efforts to Protect Women from Harmful Traditional Practices. Presented at the MacMillan Workshop on International Relations, Yale University (October 2007). COURSES TAUGHT Introduction to Comparative Politics Government and Politics of Africa Gender in World Politics International Organizations UNIVERSITY ACTIVITY AND SERVICE Selection Committee Member, John G. Tower Center for Political Studies Tower, Ford, and Rubottom Scholarships, Southern Methodist University (2015 2016) Selection Committee Member, John G. Tower Center for Political Studies Vaughn Internship, Southern Methodist University (2015) Co-organizer, Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute Fellows Seminar, Global Africa: Between Intervention and Engagement, Southern Methodist University (2014 2015) Supervisor, Hamilton Undergraduate Research Scholars, Southern Methodist University (2014 2015) Discussion Leader, Common Reading discussion event, Southern Methodist University (2014)
Karisa Cloward CV 5 Panelist, 20 Years of Change in Africa Godbey Lecture, Southern Methodist University (2014) Advisor, ElectHer student organization, Southern Methodist University (2013 2014) Member, Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute Research Cluster, Reframing Africa, Southern Methodist University (2013) Advisor, Engaged Learning Project, Southern Methodist University (2013) Advisor, Political Science Department Undergraduate Distinction Thesis, Southern Methodist University (2012 2013) Member, Task Force on Faculty Leave, Southern Methodist University (2012) Selection Committee Member, Hunt Leadership Scholars Program, Southern Methodist University (2012) Advisor, Richter Fellow, Southern Methodist University (2011 2012) Selection Committee Member, John G. Tower Center for Political Studies Vaughn Internship, Southern Methodist University (2010) PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS American Political Science Association International Studies Association Midwest Group on African Political Economy MANUSCRIPT REFEREEING Oxford University Press, International Studies Quarterly, International Interactions, Africa Today, International Studies Perspectives, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific