NAOMI LEVY Department of Political Science Santa Clara University 500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA 95054 nlevy@scu.edu 408.554.4988 ACADEMIC POSITIONS SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY Assistant Professor, Fall 2009-Present COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY Visiting Instructor, Spring 2009 Adjunct Instructor, Spring & Fall 2007, Fall 2008 EDUCATION Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley. Political Science (December 2009) Thesis: Learning National Identity: Schooling Effects in Post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. Co-chaired by Steve Fish and Laura Stoker Ph.D. fields: Comparative Politics, Methodology, Political Theory M.A. University of California at Berkeley. Political Science (May 1999) Thesis: The Politics of History and Identity: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on Identity Politics and Education M.A. Stanford University School of Education. Social Sciences of Education (June 1998) Thesis: To Create A More Perfect Textbook: an Analysis of Textbooks Efforts to Portray an Inclusive History B.A. University of California at Santa Cruz. Psychology, with honors. Phi Beta Kappa. (1992) GRANTS 2015 Minerva Research Initiative, Department of Defense $141,285 (with Naazneen Barma and Jessica Piombo) 2013-2016 Minerva Research Initiative, Department of Defense $751,389 (with Naazneen Barma and Jessica Piombo) 2015-16 Faculty Student Research Assistant Program, SCU $1000 2014-15 Faculty Student Research Assistant Program, SCU $1000 2013 Junior Faculty Development Leave, SCU $5000 2012-13 Faculty Student Research Assistant Program, SCU $1000 2011-12 Faculty Student Research Assistant Program, SCU $1000 2010-11 Faculty Student Research Assistant Program, SCU $1000 REFEREED PUBLICATIONS 2014. Measuring Multiple Identities: What Is Lost with a Zero-Sum Approach. Politics, Groups, and Identities. 2 (4). 2014. The Utility of Identity: Explaining Public Support for the EU after the Crash Polity. 46 (4). With Bonnie Phan (former SCU student) 2014. International Peacebuilding and the Politics of Identity: Lessons from Social Psychology using the Bosnian Case. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 8 (1). 2013. EU Identity: a Review Essay. Politics, Groups, and Identities 1 (1).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS 2010. Review of Measuring Identity (edited by Rawi Abdelal, Yoshiko M. Herrera, Alastair Iain Johnston, and Rose McDermott). Political Studies Review 8 (3): 403. 2004. Public Education and Social Reconstruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. In Eric Stover and Harvey Weinstein, (eds.), My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community after Mass Atrocity. London: Cambridge University Press. With Sarah Freedman, Dinka Corkalo, Dino Abazovic, Bronwyn Leebaw, Dean Adjukovic, Dino Djipa, and Harvey Weinstein. WORK IN PROGRESS External Engagement in Public Service Provision: Disentangling the Processes of Statebuilding and Peacebuilding. With Naazneen Barma and Jessica Piombo The Effects of External Engagement on Statebuilding. With Naazneen Barma and Jessica Piombo. Building Peace by Delivering Public Services: How Does External Engagement Condition the Relationship Between Peacebuilding and Statebuilding? With Naazneen Barma and Jessica Piombo. Post-Conflict External Engagement: Help or Hindrance? With William Portnof (SCU student). Muslim Migrants Identity and Political Engagement. With Farid Senzai. Learning Identity in Post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED TALKS Building Peace by Delivering Public Services: How Does External Engagement Condition the Relationship Between Peacebuilding and Statebuilding? to be presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, March 16-19, Atlanta. With Naazneen Barma and Jessica Piombo. Post-Conflict External Engagement: Help or Hindrance? to be presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, March 16-19, Atlanta. With William Portnof (SCU student). Creating a Sustainable Peace? Disentangling the Processes of Statebuilding and Peacebuilding presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, April 3-6, 2014, Chicago, and at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, February 18-21, 2015, New Orleans. With Naazneen Barma and Jessica Piombo. The Effects of External Engagement on Statebuilding presented at the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association Annual Conference, November 14-16, 2014, Austin, and at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, February 18-21, 2015, New Orleans. With Naazneen Barma and Jessica Piombo. International Peacebuilding and the Politics of Identity: Lessons from Social Psychology using the Bosnian Case presented at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, April 3-6, 2013, San Francisco. The Utility of Identity: Explaining Public Support for the EU after the Crash prepared for presentation at the American Political Science Association Meeting, August 30-September 2, 2012, New Orleans and presented at the Western Political Science Association Meeting, March 28-30, 2013, Hollywood. With Bonnie Phan. 2
Languages of Instruction: The Incompatibility of Human Rights Principles and Post-Conflict Peace-building presented at the 16th Annual Association for the Study of Nationalities World Convention, April 14-16, 2011, Columbia University, New York and the West Regional Conference of the International Studies Association, September 24-25, 2011, Pasadena. With Danijela Dudley. Perceived Group Threats in the Schools of Post-Conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia presented at the Western Political Science Association Meeting, April 1-3, 2010, San Francisco. Measuring Multiple Identities: A Latent Variable Model of State and Ethno-national Identity presented at the American Political Science Association Meeting, August 28 31, 2008, Boston. Identifying Identity: A Latent Variable Model with Multilevel Data presented at the Annual summer Meeting of the Society for Political Methodology, July 10-12, 2008, Ann Arbor (poster). Learning Identity: A Structural Equation Model of Secondary School Students State and Ethno- National Identities in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, April 12-15, 2007, Chicago, the American Political Science Association Meeting, August 30 September 2, 2007, Chicago (poster), and at the College of William & Mary Department of Government Colloquium Series, September 28, 2007, Williamsburg. Identity Measurement: A Structural Equation Approach presented at the Annual Summer Meeting of the Society for Political Methodology, July 20-22, 2006, Davis, CA (poster) and at the College of William & Mary Department of Government Colloquium Series, February 9, 2007, Williamsburg. The Learning of National Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Understanding Students Identities through Structural Equation Modeling presented at the Special Meeting of the Laboratory in Comparative Ethnic Politics, December 9-10, 2005, San Diego. Learning National Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina: A Structural Equation Model of Secondary Students Identities presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 1-4, 2005, Washington, DC. Learning National Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Preliminary Results presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, March 17-19, 2005, Oakland. Confronting the Past in the Schools of the Former Yugoslavia co-presented with Sarah Freedman at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, April 12-16, 2004, San Diego. Identity Politics in the Schools of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia presented at the Russian and East European Studies First Annual Graduate Student Conference at the University of Pittsburgh, March 5-6, 2004, Pittsburgh, at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, March 11-13, 2004, Portland, and at the Berkeley Political Science Annual Graduate Student Conference, April 23, 2004. How to Use Ethnograph 5.0 to Analyze Interview and Focus Group Data software demonstration given at the Qualitative Analysis Software Workshop hosted by the Center for the Integrated Study of Teaching and Learning, Graduate School of Education, University of California at Berkeley, December 12, 2003, Berkeley. Local Stakeholders Views on Creating a Memory of the Past through History Curriculum in BiH and Croatia co-presented with Sarah Freedman at the Regional Conference on History Teaching in Southeast Europe hosted by ADRA and the Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe, December 6-9, 2003, Pristina, Kosovo. 3
Can Ethnicity be Nice under Dayton? Teaching National Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina presented at the Berkeley Journal of Sociology Annual Conference, March 7, 2003, Berkeley. ACADEMIC HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS Spring 2015 Best Senior Seminar Fall 2006 UC Berkeley Political Science Department Continuing Student Fellowship 2005-2006 ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in East European Studies 2004-2005 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian 2003-2004 Political Science Department Continuing Student Fellowship 2001-2002 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Hebrew 2000-2001 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Hebrew Fall 2000 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, Department of Political Science OTHER EDUCATION ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Summer 2001 and 2000. Topics studied included structural equation modeling with latent variables, simultaneous equation modeling, multivariate regression, and maximum likelihood discrete choice modeling. Tools for Text Workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation, hosted at University of Washington, June 2010. Invited Participant. R Programming, Johns Hopkins University on Coursera, completed with distinction May 2015. ADDITIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION Co-Instructor Short Course on Designing and Conducting Field Research, 2008-2014 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY Instructor Workshop on Designing and Conducting Field Research, February 17, 2012 PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND SERVICE American Political Science Association Migration and Citizenship Section Political Psychology Section Qualitative and Mixed Methods Section Comparative Politics Section International Studies Association Peace Studies Section Ethnicity, Nationalism, & Migration Studies Section Midwest Political Science Association Western Political Science Association Reviewer for Nationalities Papers; Politics, Groups and Identities; and Journal of Education in Emergencies Outside Dissertation Committee Member for Zuzana Ringlerova, Purdue University 4
LANGUAGE AND COMPUTING SKILLS Near native fluency in spoken Hebrew Working knowledge of Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian. Proficiency in quantitative and qualitative data analysis programs: R SPSS Stata AMOS Ethnograph Atlas Ti WEBSITES: naomilevy.weebly.com peaceandstatebuilding.net 5