EDUCATION 
Ph.D., Political Science, The Ohio State University, June 1999
Summer Institute in Political Psychology, The Ohio State University, Summer 1994

M.A., International Relations and Strategic Studies, Lancaster University, United 
Kingdom, September 1993

B.A. (First Honor Graduate, summa cum laude), Political Science, University of 
Georgia, Honors Program, June 1992

PUBLICATIONS 
“The Intra-National Struggle to Define ‘Us’:  External Intervention as a Two-Way Street.”  International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 45 (September 2001).

“Theory, Perception, and Leadership Agency:  A Multiple Processing Model of Nationalist 
 Mobilization.”  Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Summer 2001), Vol. 7, No. 2. 

“Immigration and Refugee Policy as a Debate Over Identity: A Choice Between the Inclusivist Normative Order and the Exclusivist Knee-Jerk Reaction?” (Review essay).  International Politics, Vol. 38 (December 2001), 

“Not All Blarney is Cast in Stone: International Cultural Conflict in Northern Ireland,” with Neal Carter.  Political Psychology, Vol. 20, No. 4 (December 1999), pp. 725-765.

Book Review.  Living with the European Union:  The Northern Ireland Experience (Denis Kennedy, ed.).  In Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring 2002).

Book Review.  Militant Nationalism: Between Movement and Party in Ireland and the Basque  Country (by Cynthia Irvin).  In American Political Science Review Vol. 9, No. 2 (June 2000).

Book Review.  Ethnic Diversity and Public Policy:  A Comparative Inquiry (by Crawford Young, ed.).  In Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Vol. 5, No. 2 (Summer 1999).

Book Review.  The Origins of the Present Troubles in Northern Ireland (by Caroline Kennedy-Pipe).  In Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Vol. 3, No. 4 (Winter 1997).

Book Review.  The Palestinians:  The Making of a People (by Kimmerling and Migdal).  In Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Vol. 2, No. 4 (Winter 1996). 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

International Studies Association
 --Foreign Policy Analysis Section, Chair of Alexander George Graduate Student Paper 
 Competition
 --ALIAS section (Active Learning in International Affairs), Secretary

International Society of Political Psychology
 --Junior Scholars Committee (founding member), Chair of Roberta Sigel Graduate Student Paper Award 

American Political Science Association

RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS 

“Now for the Hard Part: Ratification Theory and Nationalist Behavior after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.”  Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 29-September 1, 2002.

“Ancient Hatreds or Manipulable Leaders?  Shifting Problem Representations in Cases of Internal Conflict,” with Chris Scholl.  Annual Meetings of the International Society of Political Psychology, Berlin, Germany, July 16-19, 2002. 

“Problem Representation and Conflict Dynamics in Northern Ireland and the Middle East: 
 Domestic Political Processes With International Impact,” with Donald A. Sylvan and Jeff 
 Martinson.  Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, 
 March 22-28, 2002

 “A Method For Our Madness:  ‘Measuring’ Group Identity and The Effects of Its Shift on 
 Nationalist Behavior,” Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, March 22-28, 2002

“Problem Representation and the Israeli-Palestinian and Northern Ireland Conflicts,” with Donald A. Sylvan.  Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the International Society for the B. Study of Political Psychology, Cuernavaca, Mexico, July 2001.

“Changes in Northern Ireland and Israeli-Palestinian Relations:  The Role of Problem Representation,”   with Donald A. Sylvan.  Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, Chicago, IL, February 20-25, 2001.