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Kurt Taylor Gaubatz

Experience

2000 to present

Associate Professor of International Studies and Political Science, Old Dominion University

1999 to 2000

Visiting John G. Winant Lecturer in American Foreign Policy, Nuffield College, Oxford University.

1990 to 1999

Assistant Professor, Political Science, Stanford University

Education

1993

Ph.D., Political Science, Stanford University

1985

M.Div., Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary

1985

M.A.L.D., International Law, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

1979

A.B., Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Honors, Grants, and Awards

Old Dominion University Teaching with Technology Award, 2009.

Academic Fellow, Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, 2008.

Department of Defense grant for research on Bayesian modeling of human social networks, 2006.

Summer Research Fellowship, Old Dominion University, 2006

Virginia Humanities Foundation planning grant (with Chandra de Silva and Lawrence Hatab), 2005.

Department of Defense grant for workshop and report on advances in human behavioral modeling, 2004-2005.

Faculty Innovator Grant, Old Dominion University, 2001.

MA, Oxford University (by proclamation), 1999.

Susan Louise Dyer Peace Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1996-1997.

Office of Technology Licensing Research Grant, Stanford University, 1996.

Stanford Teaching and Technology Grant for Course Development, 1995.

Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs, The Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1993-1994.

Hewlett Grant for International Relations Research, 1993.

Hewlett Grant for International Relations Research, 1992.

Peace Scholar, United States Institute of Peace, 1989-1990.

MacArthur Dissertation Fellowship, Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University, 1988-1989.

Roothbert Fellow, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1983-1985.

John Moors Cabot Fellow, The Fletcher School, 1980-1981.

Phi Beta Kappa, U.C. Berkeley, 1979.

Varsity Letter, Fencing, U.C. Berkeley, 1979

Major Departmental Service

Faculty Representative to the Old Dominion University Board of Visitors Committee on Academic and Research Excellence (ODU) 2008-

Modeling and Simulation Steering Committee (ODU) 2007-

Chair, Faculty Senate Committee on Graduate Studies (ODU) 2007-

Faculty Senate (ODU) 2005-

Director, Graduate Program in International Studies (ODU) 2001-2004

Associate Director, Graduate Program in International Studies (ODU) 2000-2001

Graduate Advisors Committee (ODU) 2000-2004

Council for International Initiatives (ODU) 2001-2004

Board of Examiners for Graduate International Relations (Oxford), 1999-2000

Graduate Studies Committee for International Relations (Oxford), 1999-2000

Governing Body (Nuffield College), 1999-2000

Domestic Committee (Nuffield College), 1999-2000

International Policy Studies Program Committee (Stanford), 1995-1996

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science (Stanford). 1993-1994

International Relations Field Convener (Stanford), 1990-1993

Professional Service

International Studies Association 2008 Book Prize Committee

International Studies Association 2007 Book Prize Committee

Chair, External Review Committee, Eastern Carolina University MA program in International Studies (2005)

Nominator, The Macarthur Fellowship Program, The John D. And Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation (2004).

1998 APSA Annual Meeting Program Committee, Program Chair for Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Analysis Division.

Reviewer For:

The American Journal of Political Science, The American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, The European Journal of International Relations, International Interactions, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, The Journal of Peace Research, The Journal of Politics , Political Behavior, The Western Political Science Quarterly, Congressional Quarterly Press, Harper Collins Press, University of Michigan Press, Oxford University Press, Stanford University Press, Westview Press, The Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, The Macarthur Foundation, The National Science Foundation, The Swedish Council on Undergraduate Education.

Tenure Reviews:

Cornell University, Swarthmore College, Seton Hall University

Teaching

Graduate Seminars at Old Dominion

Undergraduate Courses at Old Dominion

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Publications

Books

Elections and War: The Electoral Incentive in the Democratic Politics of War and Peace, Stanford University Press, 1999. (Paperback 2002)

Articles

"City-State Redux: Rethinking Optimal State Size in an Age of Globalization" New Global Studies v.3 n. 1 (January, 2009) pp. 1-22.

"A Multidisciplinary Model for Modeling and Simulation Graduate Education" International Journal of Simulation and Process Modeling (with Roland Mielke, Mark Scerbo, and Ginger Watson) (2009)

“The Hobbesian Problem and the Microfoundations of International Relations Theory” Security Studies, v. 11 n. 2 (Winter 2001/2).

“How International is International Law?” (with Matthew MacArthur) Michigan Journal of International Law, v. 22 n. 2 (Spring 2001) pp. 239-282.

“Political Competition and Foreign Policy Power Sharing” International Interactions, v. 26 n. 1 (2000) pp. 1-19.

“None Dare Call it Reason: Domestic Incentives and the Politics of War and Peace,” in Strategic Politicians and Foreign Policy, edited by Randolph Siverson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998.

“Kant, Democracy, and History,” Journal of Democracy, v. 7 n. 4 (October, 1996).

“Democratic States and Commitment in International Relations,” International Organization, v. 50 n. 1 (January, 1996). Also appears as chapter one in Liberalization and Foreign Policy, edited by Miles Kahler. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

“Intervention and Intransitivity: Public Opinion, Social Choice, and the Use of Military Force Abroad,” World Politics, v. 47 n. 4 (July, 1995).

“Election Cycles and War,” Journal of Conflict Resolution, v. 35 n. 2 (June, 1991).

last updated: 2010-11-26
email: kgaubatz@odu.edu