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1 JENNIFER BRICK MURTAZASHVILI Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh 3806 Wesley W. Posvar Hall Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Tel.: ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Present Assistant Professor EDUCATION Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh 2009 Ph.D., Political Science, University of Wisconsin Madison - Subfields: Comparative Politics, Research Methodology - Ph.d. Minor in Law, University of Wisconsin Madison Law School Dissertation: The Microfoundations of State Building: Informal Institutions and Local Public Goods in Rural Afghanistan 2006 M.A., Agricultural and Applied Economics University of Wisconsin Madison 2003 M.A., Political Science University of Wisconsin Madison 1997 B.S.F.S, International Politics Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University - Certificate in Eurasian, Russian, and Eastern European Studies 1995 Moscow Institute for Social and Political Studies BOOK MANUSCRIPTS Coursework in Russian Politics and History (in Russian) Moscow, Russia The Political Economy of Customary Governance: Informal Order and State Building in Rural Afghanistan, (submitted for review) Property Rights and Political Violence: The Political Economy of Land and State in Afghanistan (with Ilia Murtazashvili), in progress

2 J e n n i f e r M u r t a z a s h v i l i 2 PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Colored by Revolution: The Political Economy of Autocratic Stability in Uzbekistan Democratization 19 (1): Armed with Practice: Learning to Engage with the Military The Forum. Volume 8, Number 3. Rangeland Administration in (Post) Conflict Conditions: The Case of Afghanistan, in Innovations in Land Rights Recognition, Administration, and Governance, ed. Klaus Deininger et al. (Washington D.C.: The World Bank, 2010), With J. David Stanfield, Muhammad Yasin Safar, and Akram Salam. Land Tenure Reform in Afghanistan, with J. David Stanfield, M. Y. Safar, and Akram Salam in Strengthening Post-Conflict Peacebuilding through Natural Resource Management, Volume 2, Environmental Law Initiative, forthcoming. POLICY PUBLICATIONS Survey on Political Institutions, Elections, and Democracy in Afghanistan. United States Agency for International Development (Democracy International), Washington, DC, Tribalism, Governance, and Development, Co-editor and Contributor. United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, An Investigation into the Sustainability of Community Development Councils. April Final Report, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, Kabul, Afghanistan. OTHER PUBLICATIONS Soviet Union in Central Asia, in Volume 4: Cultural Sociology of West, Central, and South Asia; Part 3, 1900 to Present: Soviet Union in Central Asia, 2012 Osama bin Laden, in Volume 4: Cultural Sociology of West, Central, and South Asia; Part 3, 1900 to Present: Soviet Union in Central Asia, 2012 Book Review, Changing Poverty, Changing Policy, Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger, eds, Comparative Policy Analysis, Community Governance and State Building in Rural Afghanistan, Central Eurasian Studies Review, 7 (2): Report from Samarkand: Uzbekistan through the Eyes of Its Youth, Central Asia Monitor, No. 3:

3 J e n n i f e r M u r t a z a s h v i l i 3 WORKING PAPERS A Good Government is Limited Government : Understanding Perceptions of the Role of State in Society in Rural Afghanistan (Under review) Informal Federalism (under review) Electoral System Choice, Representation, and Accountability: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan (with Torsten Jochem and Ilia Murtazashvili) Political Parties, State Building and Credible Commitment: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Afghanistan (with Torsten Jochem and Ilia Murtazashvili) The Political Economy of Local Elections: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Afghanistan (with Torsten Jochem and Ilia Murtazashvili) FIELD RESEARCH AND EXPERIENCE Research Projects Local Governance in Tajikistan ( ): Co-Principal Investigator (with Daniel Rubenson) Three year impact evaluation of local governance reform efforts at subdistrict level (jamoat) in rural Tajikistan. Supported by USAID and Government of Tajikistan. Subnational Governance in Afghanistan (Summer 2012): Interviews and focus group discussions with Afghan government officials at national and subnational levels, civil society groups, customary governance representatives, diplomats, and international donor community. Electoral Reform in Afghanistan ( ): Principal Investigator. Designed nationally-representative survey, population based-survey experiment, semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions for a research project that explored the impact of national and local electoral reform on representation and state building in Afghanistan. Supported by USAID/Democracy International). Village Governance and Public Goods Provision in Rural Afghanistan (2006-8): Principal Investigator. Qualitative field work in 32 villages across six provinces of rural Afghanistan, supported by the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit. Field Experience: Afghanistan (three years), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia (one year), Tajikistan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan (five years) SELECTED RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS Senior Research Officer, Political Economy and Governance, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, Kabul, Afghanistan,

4 J e n n i f e r M u r t a z a s h v i l i 4 Democracy Specialist, United States Agency for International Development, Central Asia Regional Mission, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Secondary School Instructor, United States Peace Corps, Samarqand, Uzbekistan, Project Assistant, U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (CRDF), Arlington, VA, INVITED TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS 2012 U.S. Army, Human Terrain System, Ft. Leavenworth, KS 2011 Workshop on Policy Analysis and Political Theory, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 2010 Australian National University, Graduate School of International Affairs, Canberra, Australia United Nations Development Program, Conference on Traditional Justice and Development, Bangkok, Thailand Conference on Violent Armed Groups, Ridgway Center for Security Studies, University of Pittsburgh Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, Department of Defense, Washington, DC National Defense Science Board, Counterinsurgency Task Force, Washington, DC National Intelligence Council, Washington, DC 2009 St. Norbert College, Green Bay WI AWARDS American Institute for Afghanistan Studies, Top Prize, Annual Student Paper Competition, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Political Science, Award for Excellence in Teaching, United States Agency for International Development, Superior Unit Citation for Designing and implementing post-september 11 conflict mitigation programs vital to the stability of Central Asia and critical to the achievement of U.S. foreign policy objectives, FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Democracy International/United States Agency for International Development, ($20,000) Faculty Development Grant, Center for Global Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2011 ($2,500) Faculty Research Grant, Center for Global Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2011 ($4,000) Domestic Travel Grant, Center for Global Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2011

5 J e n n i f e r M u r t a z a s h v i l i 5 Bradley Foundation, Dissertation Fellowship, Spring 2008, Fall 2008 (full tuition funding and stipend) University of Wisconsin School of Law - Institute for Legal Studies Graduate Fellow, Vilas Travel Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, , International Research and Exchange Program, International Advanced Research Opportunity Grant, (declined) National Security Education Program, Boren Graduate Fellowship, (declined) Bradley Foundation Summer Research Fellowship, Summer 2005 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship - Persian Language Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, (declined ) American Institute of Iranian Studies Summer Language Studies, Dekhoda Institute - Tehran, Iran, 2003 (declined, visa denied) SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED WORKSHOPS Invited Workshop: The Afghan Crisis in Perspective: Understanding the Vectors of Social Change, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, March Electoral System Choice, Representation, and Accountability: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan, Workshop on Ethnic Politics and Electoral Democracy, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2012 (with Torsten Jochem). (invited workshop) The Formal-Informal Nexus in Rural Afghanistan, Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, April 2011 Tribes, Governance, and Development in Afghanistan, United States Institute for Peace/United States Agency for International Development, Research Workshop on Tribes, States, and Development, Washington, DC, 2010 (invited workshop) Ungovernable Afghanistan? The Role of Customary Authority and International Assistance in Generating State Support, Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Denver, CO, May The Politics of Property Rights in Afghanistan with Ilia Murtazashvili, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April Demand Driven State Building in Fragile States: Inter-communal Cooperation for the Provision of Public Goods in Rural Afghanistan, Political Economy section, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, September The Formal-Informal Nexus in Rural Afghanistan, Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, April 2011.

6 J e n n i f e r M u r t a z a s h v i l i 6 Informal Ties that Bind: Interest Aggregation and Representation in the Absence of the State, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April Customary Organizations and Community Development in Rural Afghanistan, Conference on Afghan Development, Center for Global Studies and Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska, Omaha, October Customary Organizations and the Foundations of State Building in Afghanistan: The Role of Maliks, Mullahs, and Jirgas in Local Governance, Sponsored by the Political Economy Colloquium and the Centers for Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies, South Asian Studies, and Global Studies, University of Wisconsin Madison, September Local Governance as an Instrument of State Building, Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, September The Political Economy of Customary Organizations in Rural Afghanistan, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, August The Political Foundations of State Building and Limited Government in Afghanistan, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April The Sustainability of Community Development Councils in Afghanistan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kabul, Afghanistan, January (workshop organizer) Investigating the Sustainability of Community Development Councils in Afghanistan: Research Methodology, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit Workshop, Kabul, Afghanistan, March (workshop organizer) Governance in the Shadow of the Law? The Political Economy of Informal Institutions and Local Government in Central Asia, Social Science Research Council, Dissertation Development Workshop, April (invited workshop) The 2005 Parliamentary Elections in Afghanistan: From the Campaign to the First Session A Preliminary Assessment, Center for Middle East Studies, University of Wisconsin Madison, February 2006.

7 J e n n i f e r M u r t a z a s h v i l i 7 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Ph.D. Level Coursework Politics of Central Asia State-Building Institutions and Development Qualitative Research Methods M.A. Level Coursework Political Islam Global Governance Post-Conflict Reconstruction Administration of Public Affairs Capstone Seminar: Marcellus Shale Policy and Governance SHORT TERM CONSULTANCIES United States Agency for International Development. Afghanistan Governance Assessment, Local Governance Expert. Drafted strategy assessment on subnational governance for USAID/Kabul as part of a three-person policy team. Internews, Kabul, Afghanistan, United Nations Development Program, Support to the Establishment of the Afghan Legislature (UNDP/SEAL), Kabul, Afghanistan, 2006 SERVICE Leadership Development and Education for Sustained Peace, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, Faculty Mentor, 2011-Present. Provide training to military officers about issues related to subnational and customary governance in Afghanistan. Independent expert witness (written affidavits and expert witness testimony), in support of applicants seeking political asylum in the United States, 2005 present. Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Election Observer, Presidential Elections, Kazakhstan, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SERVICE Graduate School of Public and International Affairs Vice President, Faculty Assembly ( ) elected Member, Faculty Advisory Committee ( ), ( ) elected Member, Curriculum Review and Evaluation Committee (2011-present) Professional Development Fund Committee ( , F2010) Search Committee Member, Security Studies ( )

8 J e n n i f e r M u r t a z a s h v i l i 8 Other University Service Appointments Co-convener, University of Pittsburgh Governance Group (2011-present) Faculty Advisory Board, Center for Russian and East European Studies (2010-present) FLAS Selection Committee, Center for Russian and East European Studies ( ) FLAS Selection Committee, Member, Center for Global Studies ( ) Provost s Committee on Information Technology (2010-Present) Ridgway Center for Security Studies, Faculty Steering Committee (2011-Present) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Political Science Association Central Eurasian Studies Society Association for Asian Studies American Institute for Afghanistan Studies UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AFFILIATIONS Center for Russian and East European Studies Center for Asian Studies Global Studies Center University of Pittsburgh Governance Group Ridgway Center for Security Studies Ford Institute for Human Security World History Center RESEARCH LANGUAGES Dari/Tajiki/Persian, Russian, Uzbek, Turkish (basic)