Erin C. McGrath, Ph.D Curriculum Vitae

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1 Erin C. McGrath, Ph.D Curriculum Vitae 8400 Baltimore AVE STE 250 College Park, MD TH AVE Riverdale, MD POST-DOCTORAL POSITION NSF Post-doctoral Research Associate, Computational Social Science. National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, University of Maryland, College Park. EDUCATION 2015 Ph.D. Public and International Affairs, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, Subfields: International Security and Foreign Policy and Policy Research and Analysis M.P.P International Public Policy, Central European University. Summa cum laude. PUBLICATIONS 2016 Matching Event Data by Location, Time, and Type. Karsten Donnay, Eric Dunford, Erin McGrath, David Backer, and David Cunningham. Under review Comparing Surveys and Social Media Around the Boston Marathon Bombing. #Microposts 16, Montreal, Canada. Cody Buntain, Erin McGrath, Gary LaFree, and Jennifer Golbeck. Proceedings of the International Conference on the World Wide Web Conference, Computational Social Science Track, WORKS IN PROGRESS 2016 Perceptions of Social Distance and Grievance. A temporally disaggregated, context-specific, generalizable measure of grievance utilizing automated community detection and sentiment with Twitter data and surveys, Lead author with Karsten Donnay, Eric Dunford, David Backer, and David Cunningham.

2 Book Manuscript. Toward a Theory of Semi-Authoritarian Resilience, or How Dictators in Disguise Turn Opposition Into Advantage. Based on dissertation. Nominated for APPAM Best Dissertation Award Includes: Dictators in Disguise: Stealth Authoritarianism in Turkey from the Ottoman Era to the Present. Longitudinal analysis utilizing Qualitative Comparative Analysis or Boolean algebra to study the micro-level dynamics of macro-level constitutional change from the Tanzimat reform era of the Ottoman Empire to the present. Deliberation and Its Discontents: Using Information Exchange and Control To Turn Participation Into Surveillance, or Opposition Into Opportunity. Extensive case study utilizing participant observation and computational text analytics of participatory constitutional reform under the Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (AKP) in Turkey from 2007 to the present. Constitutionalism and Struggle for Autonomy: The Complex Dynamics of Turkish Foreign Policy, International Regimes, International Interventions, and the Kurds in Turkey, Syria, and Iraq. Network analysis of actors in the Kurdish conflict in Turkey, Syria, and Iraq since the invasion of Iraq. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Papers Accepted/ Presented 2016 The Perception of Grievance, American Political Science Association Annual Conference, August Lead author with Eric Dunford, Karsten Donnay, David Backer, and David Cunningham An Aggregation of Geo-coded Violent and Non-Violent Conflict Events, Coauthor with Eric Dunford, Karsten Donnay, Erin McGrath, David Backer, and David Cunningham. Civil Conflict Dynamics, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April Chair and Discussant Constitutionalism and Struggle for Autonomy: Kurds in Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, September Deliberation and Its Discontents: Participatory Constitutional Reform Under Authoritarianism The Case of the AKP in Turkey, 2007 to Present, Global Conference of the Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law, Tallahassee, FL, April Dictators in Disguise: Stealth Authoritarian Policymaking in Turkey, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April

3 2012 Network Theory, Associational Life, and Developing Democracy, International Network of Social Network Analysis (INSNA) Sunbelt XXXII Conference, Redondo Beach, CA, Spring Bounding Our Ignorance: Structuring the Iraq Problem, International Security Section of the International Studies Association Annual Conference, Winter TRAININGS AND SCHOLARSHIPS 2016 ICPSR Summer School on Text-As-Data, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Summer Scholarship, Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR), Syracuse University, Summer Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Award, US Department of State, Ankara, Turkey, Summer Scholarship, Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems Institute (CASOS), Carnegie Mellon University, Summer Academic Pro-Rector s Excellence Award and Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement. Central European University, Spring GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2012 European Union Center of Excellence, Pre-Dissertation Grant Visiting Research Fellowship, Department of Political Science, Bilkent University. Supervisor: Prof. Metin Heper Visiting Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany. Fall CAMPUS/ DEPARTMENTAL TALKS 2010 Anti-Americanism in Turkey, Bilkent University Political Science Lecture Series, March Human Trafficking: Men on Fishing Boats in Southeast Asia, Global Studies Workshop, University Center for International Studies, March

4 TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2009 Teaching Assistant, Research Design and Methods, Graduate-Level Course, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Spring RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Year Research Assistantships, University of Pittsburgh 2015 Center for Disaster Management (Dr. Louise K. Comfort) NSF-funded Project on Decision-Making Systems for Sustainable, Resilient Buildings Center for Disaster Management CDC-funded Public Health Adaptive Systems Studies (PHASYS) Project Collection of Iraq Surge data (Dr. William N. Dunn) Foreign Policy and Decision-making for Intelligence Analysis Ford Institute for Human Security (Dr. Simon Reich) Safety of Refugee Camps LANGUAGES Reading/ Writing Comprehension Speaking English Native Native Native Turkish Good Intermediate Conversational Spanish Beginner Intermediate Beginner PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/ AFFILIATIONS American Political Science Association. Peace Science. Midwest Political Science Association. International Network of Social Network Analysis (INSNA). International Studies Association. REFERENCES Gary LaFree, Professor and Director of National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism University of Maryland College Park 8400 Baltimore Avenue College Park, MD

5 David Cunningham, Associate Professor, Department of Government and Politics Louise K. Comfort, Professor and Director of Center for Disaster Management at University of Pittsburgh University of Maryland College Park Chincoteague 3117C College Park, MD Posvar Hall, GSPIA, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA