DESHA M. GIROD. Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law Stanford University, July 2008 July 2009

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1 DESHA M. GIROD Department of Government Vita Date: July 29, 2016 Georgetown Washington, DC Desha.Girod at georgetown.edu ACADEMIC POSITIONS Associate Professor (with tenure) Assistant Professor Post-doctoral Fellow AFFILIATIONS African Studies Program Center for Latin American Studies Department of Government Georgetown, August 2015 present Department of Government Georgetown, August 2009 July 2015 Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law Stanford, July 2008 July 2009 School of Foreign Service Georgetown, August 2009 present School of Foreign Service Georgetown, August 2009 present EDUCATION Stanford Ph.D. in Political Science, June 2008 Trinity College, Dublin M.Phil in International Peace Studies, July 2002 Penn State B.A. in Political Science with Highest Distinction and Honors in Communications, May 2000 RESEARCH International and Comparative Political Economy of Developing Countries 1

2 BOOKS Explaining Post-Conflict Reconstruction New York: Oxford Press. Origins of the Oil Curse (co-authored with Meir Walters, project in progress) New Foreign Aid (project in progress) JOURNAL ARTICLES Forthcoming Mass Protests and the Resource Curse: The Politics of Demobilization in Rentier Autocracies (co-authored with Megan Stewart and Meir Walters). Conflict Management and Peace Science Take the Money and Run: The Determinants of Compliance with Aid Agreements (co-authored with Jennifer Tobin). International Organization 70, 1: Reducing Postconflict Coup Risk: The Low Windfall Coup-Proofing Hypothesis. Conflict Management and Peace Science 32, 2: Indigenous Origins of Colonial Institutions (co-authored with Luz Marina Arias). Quarterly Journal of Political Science 9, 3: Elite-Led Democratisation in Aid-Dependent States: The Case of Mauritania (co-authored with Meir Walters). Journal of North African Studies 17, 2 (March): Effective Foreign Aid Following Civil War: The Nonstrategic-Desperation Hypothesis. American Journal of Political Science 56, 1 (January): Do Migrants Improve Their Hometowns? Remittances and Access to Public Services in Mexico, (co-authored with Claire L. Adida). Comparative Political Studies 44, 1 (January): CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES 2013 Transitional Successes and Failures: The International-Domestic Nexus (coauthored with Kathryn Stoner, Larry Diamond, and Michael McFaul). In Kathryn Stoner and Michael McFaul (editors) Transitions to Democracy: A Comparative Perspective. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press). 2

3 2009 Governance and Foreign Assistance: The Imperfect Translation of Ideas into Outcomes (co-authored with Stephen D. Krasner and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss). In Amichai Magen, Michael McFaul and Thomas Risse (editors) Promoting Democracy and the Rule of Law: American and European Strategies (UK: Palgrave Macmillan Press). PAPERS IN PROGRESS Origins of the Oil Curse (co-authored with Meir Walters) Tied vs. Untied Aid: Foreign Aid as Big Business Simpson's Paradox in Aid Research (co-authored with Paula Ganga) Multilateral vs. Bilateral Aid: Cut From the Same Cloth? GRANTS Open Source Indicators Grant, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity/BBN Technologies (PI), : $383,904 Book Incubator Grant, Georgetown, 2011: $5,000 Summer Academic Grant, Georgetown, 2011: $9,500 FELLOWSHIPS Faculty Success Fellowship, Georgetown, Faculty Fellowship, Doyle Engaging Difference Program, Georgetown, Post-doctoral Fellowship, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford, Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford, Center on International Conflict and Negotiation, Stanford,

4 Graduate Political Science Scholarship, Stanford, George J. Mitchell Scholarship, Harry S. Truman Scholarship, awarded 1999 Bunton-Waller Fellowship (for under-represented minorities), Penn State, INVITED PRESENTATIONS/COMMENTS New York -Abu Dhabi, Research Seminar, March 2017 Georgetown, Political Economy Seminar, November 2016 Georgetown, School of Continuing Studies, July 2016 Central Party School, Beijing, China, June 2016 Yale, Leitner Political Economy Seminar Series, November 2015 Georgetown, School of Foreign Service, Walsh Exchange Speaker Series, October 2015 Princeton, The Political Economy of Government Revenues: Different Sources, Different Politics?, co-organized by the of Pittsburgh and Princeton, October 2015 Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico City, Mexico, March 2015 of California, San Diego, International Relations and Pacific Studies, February 2015 National Congress of Honduras (held a one-day, 6-hour class in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, for approximately 45 members of the Congress), November 2014 Georgetown, Comparative Government Seminar, April 2014 Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, March 2014 Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity/BBN Technologies, February 2014 of California, Berkeley, Department of Political Science, November 2013 Emory, Department of Political Science, September 2012 BBN Technologies, June 2012 of South Carolina, Department of Political Science, February 2012 Columbia, International Politics Seminar, October 2011 Georgetown, International Development Seminar, September 2011 Georgetown, African Studies, Lusophone Africa: Democratization, Development and Global Influences, January 2011 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings, October 2010 Penn State, Department of Political Science, October 2010 U.S. Naval Academy, Africa Forum, September 2010 of Ottawa, Centre for International Policy Studies, May 2010 Georgetown, Department of Government, April 2010 Georgetown, School of Foreign Service, January 2010 of Denver, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, November 2009 Georgetown, Department of Government, October

5 Yale, Department of Political Science, April 2009 Stanford, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Workshop on Poorly Governed Resource-Dependent States: Policy Options for the New Administration, March 2009 Stanford, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, International Sources of Democratization (Discussant), March 2009 Stanford, Department of Political Science, November 2008 Stanford, Center for International Security and Cooperation, June 2008 Stanford, Center for Latin American Studies, May 2008 Stanford, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Reorganizing U.S. Government Democracy Promotion Efforts May 2008 Cornell, Institute for African Development, April 2008 Georgetown, Department of Government, January 2008 Stanford, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, October 2007 Stanford, Department of Political Science, October 2007 Stanford, Department of Political Science, February 2007 Stanford, Department of Political Science, January 2007 Stanford, Department of Political Science, October 2006 Stanford, Department of Political Science, May 2006 Stanford, Department of Political Science, April 2006 Stanford, Department of Political Science, November 2005 Stanford, Department of Political Science, October 2005 Yale, Center for the Study of Globalization, May 2005 Stanford, Department of Political Science, April 2005 Stanford, Center for International Security and Cooperation, April 2005 Stanford, Department of Political Science, March 2005 ASSOCIATION CONFERENCES American Political Science Association: (2016; 2015; 2014, 2013, 2011, 2010, 2008, 2007, 2006); Midwest Political Science Association (2014, 2011, 2007, 2006); International Political Economy Society (2011, 2008); Peace Science Society (2014); Political Economy of International Organizations (2010); International Studies Association (2015; 2008); African Studies Association (2006). TEACHING Ph.D. Classes: Comparative Politics Field Seminar, Field Methods, Failed and Fragile States Undergraduate Classes: State Building, Civil War in Developing Countries Ph.D. Dissertation Committees: 11 advisees (5 ongoing; 6 completed) 5

6 M.A. Thesis Advisor: 1 advisee Development, Management and Policy, Department of Government, 2015 Undergraduate Honors Theses Advisor/Reader: 11 advisees African Studies, 2010, 2014 Department of Government, 2012, Winner of Department of Government Award for Best Thesis - Winner of Pi Sigma Alpha National Undergraduate Thesis Competition International Politics, 2011, 2015, 2016 Justice and Peace Studies, 2011 Latin American Studies, 2012 Carroll Fellows, 2012 SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY AND THE PROFESSION Reviewer Africa Today, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Economics & Politics, International Interactions, International Organization, International Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Journal of African Economies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of East Asian Studies, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Global Security Studies, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Politics, Journal of Global Governance, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Review of International Organizations, Swiss National Science Foundation, World Development, World Politics Center for Latin American Studies, Georgetown, M.A. Concentration in Conflict Resolution and Human Rights, Advisor Foreign Policy Section, American Political Science Association, Division Chair American Political Science Association, Mentor Expertise Reader for the Mitchell Scholarship Foreign Policy Section, American Political Science Association, Best Paper Award, Committee Chair Foreign Policy Section, American Political Science Association, Executive Committee Board American Political Science Association, Mentor Georgetown Coordinator, DC Area Comparative Workshop Annual evaluation of junior colleague, Government Department, Georgetown Search Committee, Department of Government and McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown 6

7 Graduate Admissions and Fellowships Committee, Government Department, Georgetown Expertise Reader for the Mitchell Scholarship Georgetown Coordinator, DC Area Comparative Workshop Comprehensive Exam Committee, Government Department, Georgetown Panelist, Heritage Month Panel, Leadership Forum, Georgetown Foreign Policy Section Executive Committee Board, American Political Science Association Workshop on Grant Writing for Ph.D. Students, Government Department, Georgetown Graduate Admissions and Fellowships Committee, Government Department, Georgetown Review of 1 st -year Ph.D. Students, Government Department, Georgetown Search Committee, Comparative Government, Department of Government, Georgetown Comprehensive Exam Committee, Government Department, Georgetown College Executive Committee, Georgetown Workshop for Ph.D. Students, Government Department, Georgetown Committee Member, African Politics Conference Group-Lynne Rienner Award for Best Dissertation in African Politics Panel Organizer, Local Arrangements Committee, African Studies Association Annual Meeting Local Arrangements Committee, African Studies Association Comparative Government Speaker Series, Government Department, Georgetown Department Scribe, Government Department, Georgetown Jesuit Universities Humanitarian Action Network, Georgetown Search Committee, Associate Director of the Master s in Democracy and Governance, Government Department, Georgetown Planning and Budget Committee, Government Department, Georgetown Comparative Government Speaker Series, Government Department, Georgetown Jesuit Universities Humanitarian Action Network, Georgetown Comprehensive Exam Committee, Government Department, Georgetown Fulbright Interview Committee, Georgetown Workshop on Writing an Abstract for Ph.D. Students, Government Department, Georgetown 7

8 Graduate Admissions and Fellowships Committee, Government Department, Georgetown Review of 1 st -year Ph.D. Students, Government Department, Georgetown Comprehensive Exam Committee, Government Department, Georgetown National Interview Panel for the Mitchell Scholarship LANGUAGES Spanish (fluent, native of Puerto Rico), Portuguese (basic), French (basic) 8