STEVEN MICHAEL WARD Cornell University Ithaca, New York White Hall 318 smw347@cornell.edu Mobile: 415-519-5482 Current Position CORNELL UNIVERSITY Ithaca, NY Assistant Professor, Department of Government (July 2014 present) STANFORD UNIVERSITY Palo Alto, CA Carnegie Junior Faculty Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation (2017-18) Research and teaching interests: International relations theory, international security, power transitions, grand strategy, international social status, East Asian security, American foreign policy Previous GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FOREIGN SERVICE IN QATAR Doha, Qatar Visiting Assistant Professor of Government (2012-2014) Education GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, Washington, DC PhD, Government (July 2012) MA, Security Studies (December 2008) TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Medford, MA BA, International Relations and Spanish (May 2006) Books Status and the Challenge of Rising Powers (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming Steven Ward, 9/2017 1
2017). Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Race, Status, and Japanese Revisionism in the Early 1930s, Security Studies 22:4 (November 2013) Lost in Translation: Social Identity Theory and the Study of Status in World Politics, International Studies Quarterly (forthcoming) Research in Progress Status, Rights, and the Causes of Accommodation Failure, revise and resubmit. The Logics of Identity Management in International Relations, revise and resubmit. An Unresolved Debate: Brinkmanship, the Nuclear Balance, and Crisis Bargaining, under review. Worth the Fight? Status, Conflict, and Bargaining in World Politics, under review. Beyond Accidental War and the German Paradigm: What Getting World War I Right Means for International Relations Theory, working paper. Status and the Grand Strategies of Established Powers, working paper. The Unreality of Offshore Balancing (with Paul Musgrave), working paper. The Politics of National Decline, book project. Other Writing (Reviews and Blog Posts) Review (invited) of Eric Grynaviski, Constructive Illusions: Misperceiving the Origins of International Cooperation (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014) for the H- Diplo Network on Diplomatic History and International Affairs (March 2017) Cutting arms and tying hands? Duck of Minerva (February 25, 2014 with Paul Musgrave) How Putin s desire to restore Russia to great power status matters, The Washington Post (March 6, 2014) Teaching Cornell University Steven Ward, 9/2017 2
PhD Seminars International Security International Relations Theory Undergraduate Lectures The Causes of War Undergraduate Seminars American Grand Strategy World War I and IR Theory The Evolution of American Grand Strategy (first year writing seminar) Other Institutions International Security (Georgetown University SFS Qatar undergraduate seminar; The College of William and Mary undergraduate lecture) Quantitative Methods (Georgetown University undergraduate lecture; Georgetown University SFS Qatar undergraduate lecture) The Rise of China in Perspective: Power Transitions in Theory and History (Georgetown University SFS Qatar undergraduate seminar) Introduction to International Relations (Georgetown University undergraduate lecture; Georgetown University SFS Qatar undergraduate lecture) Research Design and Methods (The College of William and Mary undergraduate lecture; The George Washington University undergraduate lecture) Awards and Fellowships Carnegie Junior Faculty Fellowship, Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation (2017-18) 2013 Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences (best dissertation in the social sciences defended at Georgetown University during the 2011-12 academic year) Georgetown University Department of Government Graduate Fellowship (2007-2012) Steven Ward, 9/2017 3
2006 Peter Belfer Award in Political Science (best undergraduate political science paper at Tufts University during the 2005-2006 academic year) Recent Conference and Workshop Activity (last three years) Status in International Politics, to be presented at the Emerging Trends and Methods in International Security workshop, part of the National Academy of Sciences Decadal Survey of Social and Behavioral Sciences for Applications to National Security, Washington, DC, October 11, 2017 Status and the Grand Strategies of Established Powers, presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, September 2017 Academic Exchange trip to Israel and Palestine, summer 2017 The Unreality of Offshore Balancing, presented at the ISA International Conference, Hong Kong, June 2017 Status and the Grand Strategies of Established Powers, presented at the ISA International Conference, Hong Kong, June 2017 The Politics of National Decline, presented as part of the PSAC speaker series, Cornell University, October 2016 Status and the Logics of Identity Management in International Relations, presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, March 2016 and as part of the Reppy Institute Seminar Series, Einaudi Center, Cornell University, March 2016 Lost in Translation: The Misadventures of Status and Social Identity in International Relations Theory, presented at the European International Studies Association s Pan-European Conference, Sicily, September 2015 Unanswered Questions: Nuclear Superiority and Coercive Diplomacy, presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies Teachers Workshop, Basin Harbor, VT, June 1-5 2015 Explaining Accommodation Failure, presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, February 2015, the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, September 2015, and the European International Studies Association, Sicily, September 2015 Beyond Accidental War and the German Paradigm: What Getting World War I Right Steven Ward, 9/2017 4
Means for International Relations Theory, presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, February 2015 Book Manuscript Conference for Status and the Challenge of Rising Powers, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, November 16, 2014 (invited participants William Wohlforth, Randall Schweller, Anne Clunan, Paul MacDonald, and Michelle Murray) Splendid Non-Intervention? Britain, the United States, and Regional Power Transitions in the 19 th Century (with Paul Musgrave), presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 2014 Recent Professional and Departmental Service Referee for International Studies Quarterly Referee for Security Studies Referee for European Journal of International Relations Referee for Review of International Studies Referee for Journal of Global Security Studies Referee for European Journal of International Security Government Department Graduate Committee (2016-17) 1 st and 2 nd year PhD Student Colloquium, 2016-2017 Independent Study, American Grand Strategy, (with Kyle Wolfley, 1 st year PhD student, Summer 2016) Discussant, Status, Power Transition, and Conflict, annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September 2016 Discussant, Power Transition Theory in the 21 st Century, annual meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, February 2015 Undergraduate Admissions Reader, Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences, Spring 2015 Faculty Representative, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar Honor Council, 2012-2014 Undergraduate Student Advising Major advisees Natalie Arimah Yea Lee Steven Ward, 9/2017 5
Katherine Weaver James Bessoir Mary-Alice Davison Noelle Durkin Jamie Suk Michelle Jeong Kyo San Ku Crispinus Lee En Ting Lee Justin Liu Alissa Peterson Yoo Hyeon Kim Taner Bertuna (graduated) Graduate Student Advising Colin Chia, Dissertation Committee Co-Chair Stephen Roblin, Dissertation Committee Member Kyle Wolfley, Dissertation Committee Member Lincoln Hines, Dissertation Committee Member References David Edelstein Associate Professor of Government, Georgetown University (dme7@georgetown.edu) Andrew Bennett Professor of Government, Georgetown University (bennetta@georgetown.edu) Keir Lieber Associate Professor of Government, Georgetown University (kal25@georgetown.edu) Daniel Nexon Associate Professor of Government, Georgetown University (dhn2@georgetown.edu) Steven Ward, 9/2017 6