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JACQUES E. C. HYMANS Associate Professor
Department of Political Science and International Relations and School of International Relations
University of Southern California
3518 Trousdale Pkwy, VKC 330, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
Email: [email protected]
(CV updated May 2020)
EMPLOYMENT
University of Southern California
Associate Professor (with tenure), Dept. of Political Science and International Relations, 2019-
Associate Professor (with tenure), School of International Relations, 2011-
Assistant Professor, School of International Relations, 2008-2011
Smith College
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Government, 2003-2008
Mershon Center, The Ohio State University
Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2002-3
Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University
Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2001-2
Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 2000-1
EDUCATION
Harvard University
Ph.D. in Political Science, November 2001
A.M. in Political Science, November 1996
Ecole Normale Supérieure – Paris, France
Pensionnaire étranger certificate, June 1997
Harvard College
A.B. in Social Studies (summa cum laude), June 1994
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Iota Chapter of Harvard College, December 1993
SINGLE-AUTHORED BOOKS
(single-authored)
Achieving Nuclear Ambitions: Scientists, Politicians, and Proliferation (Cambridge University
Press, 2012)
- Winner of three national/international book awards: Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving
World Order from the University of Louisville ($100,000); Louis Brownlow Award for Best
Book on Public Administration from the National Academy of Public Administration; and
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Don K. Price Award for Best Book on Science, Technology and Environmental Politics from
the American Political Science Association
- Selected by the Council on Foreign Relations Global Governance Monitor as one of the
twelve “Essential Nonproliferation and Arms Control Books” published since the 1960s
(August 2016)
- Reviewed in CHOICE Reviews, Christian Scholar’s Review, H-Diplo/ISSF Forum,
International Studies Review, The National Interest online, The Nonproliferation Review,
Perspectives on Politics, Security Index (Russia), Survival
The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation: Identity, Emotions, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge
University Press, 2006)
- Winner of two national/international book awards: Alexander L. George Award for Best
Book in Political Psychology from the International Society of Political Psychology; Edgar S.
Furniss Award for Best First Book in International Security Studies from the Mershon Center
for International Security Studies.
-Chapter 2 reprinted in Walter Carlsnaes and Stefano Guzzini, eds., Foreign Policy Analysis
(Los Angeles and New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2011).
-Book used as a prize at the Secondary Schools’ Model UN Conference, Montreal, Canada,
November 2012.
- Reviewed in CHOICE Reviews, Contemporary Security Policy, The Disarmament Review
(Japan), Euro-Power, Foreign Affairs, Harvard Human Rights Journal, International Affairs,
International Security, International Studies Review, Journal of Politics, Journal of Strategic
Studies, National Identities, The Nonproliferation Review, Political Psychology, Political
Studies Review, Psyccritiques, Revue Française de Science Politique, Swiss Political Science
Review, Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations
PUBLISHED JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, ETC.
(all are single-authored unless otherwise noted)
“Currency Iconography,” in Marcel Vellinga, ed., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture
(London, UK: Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming 2021)
“Losing Steam: Why Does Japan Produce So Little Geothermal Power?” Social Science Japan
Journal, forthcoming 2020.
Guest Editor of International Theory Symposium on Peter J. Katzenstein and Lucia Seybert,
eds., Protean Power: Exploring the Uncertain and Unexpected in International Politics,
forthcoming 2020.
“The Concept of Protean Power: Change We Can Believe In?” (Lead article in International
Theory Symposium on Protean Power), International Theory, forthcoming 2020.
“The Diffusion of International Norms of Banknote Iconography: A Case Study of the New
Taiwan Dollar,” co-authored with Ronan Tse-min Fu, Political Geography Vol. 57 (March
2017), pp. 49-59.
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“After Fukushima: Veto Players and Japanese Nuclear Policy,” in Anne Allison and Frank
Baldwin, eds., Japan: The Precarious Future (New York: NYU Press, 2015), pp. 110-138.
“The Dynamics of Nuclear Politics: Lessons from Latin America,” in Ana Covarrubias and Jorge
I. Domínguez, eds., The Routledge Handbook on Latin America in the World (New York:
Routledge, 2014), pp. 362-375.
“Befriend the Scientists: How to Bring Iran’s Nuclear Program Into the Fold,” in Gideon Rose, ed.,
Iran and the Bomb 2: A New Hope (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2014), pp. 86-91.
[Originally published on Foreign Affairs’ website in 2013]
“Why Recognize? Explaining Victorian Britain’s Decision to Recognize the Sovereignty of
Imperial Japan,” Korean Journal of International Studies Vol. 12, No. S1 (May 2014), pp. 49-78.
“No Cause for Panic: Key Lessons from the Political Science Literature on Nuclear Proliferation,”
International Journal Vol. 69, No. 1 (March 2014), pp. 85-93.
“The Threat of Nuclear Proliferation: Perception and Reality,” Ethics and International Affairs,
Vol. 27, No. 3 (September 2013), pp. 281-298.
“Iran and the Nuclear Threshold: Where is the Line?” co-authored with Matthew S. Gratias, The
Nonproliferation Review Vol. 20, No. 1 (March 2013), pp. 13-38.
“Botching the Bomb: Why Many Nuclear Weapons Programs Fail—And Why Iran’s Might, Too,”
Foreign Affairs Vol. 91, No. 3 (May/June 2012), pp. 44-53.
[Reprinted in Gideon Rose and Jonathan Tepperman, eds., Iran and the Bomb: Solving the
Persian Puzzle (New York: Foreign Affairs/Council on Foreign Relations, 2012), pp. 86-
97. Also reprinted in Maria Rost Rublee and Ramesh Thakur, eds., Nuclear Politics
(Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2014)]
“Veto Players, Nuclear Energy, and Nonproliferation: Domestic Institutional Barriers to a Japanese
Bomb,” International Security Vol. 36, No. 2 (Fall 2011), pp. 154-189.
“Proliferation Implications of Civil Nuclear Cooperation: Theory and a Case Study of the
Yugoslav Experience,” Security Studies Vol. 20, No. 1 (March 2011), pp. 73-104.
“Nuclear Proliferation and Nonproliferation,” in George T. Kurian, ed., Encyclopedia of Political
Science (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2011)
“The Arrival of Psychological Constructivism,” International Theory Vol. 2, No. 3 (Fall 2010),
pp. 461-467.
“When Does a State become a ‘Nuclear Weapon State’? An Exercise in Measurement
Validation,” The Nonproliferation Review Vol. 17, No. 1 (March 2010), pp. 161-180.
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[Alternate version published in William Potter and Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova, eds.,
Forecasting Nuclear Proliferation in the 21st Century, v.1: The Role of Theory
(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010)]
“The Study of Nuclear Proliferation and Non-Proliferation: Toward a New Consensus?” in
William C. Potter and Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova, eds., Forecasting Nuclear Proliferation in the 21st
Century, v. 1: The Role of Theory (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010), pp. 13-37
[Alternate version published as “Nuclear Proliferation and Non-Proliferation,” in Robert A.
Denemark, ed., The International Studies Encyclopedia (London: Blackwell, 2010), pp.
5447-5466 and online at www.isacompendium.com]
“East is East, and West is West? Currency Iconography as Nation-Branding in the Wider Europe,”
Political Geography Vol. 29, No. 2 (February 2010), pp. 97-108.
“Britain and Hiroshima,” Journal of Strategic Studies Vol. 32, No. 5 (October 2009), pp. 769-
797.
“India’s Soft Power and Vulnerability,” India Review Vol. 8, No. 3 (August 2009), pp. 234-265.
“Two Visions of Nuclear Weapons in Asia,” Asia Policy No. 7 (January 2009), pp. 135-138.
“Assessing North Korean Nuclear Intentions and Capacities: A New Approach,” Journal of East
Asian Studies Vol. 8, No. 2 (May-August 2008), pp. 259-292.
“North Korea’s Nuclear Neurosis,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Vol. 63, No. 3 (May/June
2007), pp. 44-49, 74.
[Reprinted in Glenn Hastedt, ed., Annual Editions: American Foreign Policy 09/10 (New
York: McGraw-Hill, 2009)]
“Theories of Nuclear Proliferation: The State of the Field,” The Nonproliferation Review Vol. 13,
No. 3 (November 2006), pp. 455-465.
“A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing: France’s Struggle with Preventive Force,” in William W. Keller and
Gordon M. Mitchell, eds., Hitting First: Preventive Force in US Security Strategy (Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006), pp. 199-216
“Money for Mars? The Euro Banknotes and European Identity,” in Robert M. Fishman and
Anthony M. Messina, eds., The Year of the Euro: The Cultural, Social, and Political Import of
Europe’s Common Currency (South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006), pp. 15-36
“International Patterns in National Identity Content: The Case of Japanese Banknote
Iconography,” Journal of East Asian Studies Vol. 5, No. 2 (May-August 2005), pp. 315-346.
“What Counts as History and How Much Does History Count? The Case of French Secondary
Education,” in Hanna Schissler and Yasemin Soysal, eds., The Nation, Europe, The World:
Textbooks and Curricula in Transition (New York: Berghahn Books, 2005), pp. 61-81
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“The Changing Color of Money: European Currency Iconography and Collective Identity,”
European Journal of International Relations Vol. 10, No. 1 (March 2004), pp. 5-31.
“The Roots of the Washington Threat Consensus,” in Betty Glad and Chris J. Dolan, eds., Striking
First: The Preventive War Doctrine and the Reshaping of U.S. Foreign Policy (New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp. 33-45
“Raízes do Eurocepticismo Americano: As Consequências Perceptivas da Identidade Nacional,”
Estratégia: Revista de Estudos Internacionais (Lisbon, Portugal) No. 17 (2nd Semester, 2002), pp.
65-81.
“Why Do States Decide to Build Nuclear Weapons? Comparing the Cases of India and France,” in
Damodar Sardesai and Raju G. C. Thomas, eds., Nuclear India in the 21st Century (New York:
Palgrave, 2002), pp. 139-160
“Of Gauchos and Gringos: Why Argentina Never Wanted the Bomb, and Why the United States
Thought It Did,” Security Studies Vol. 10, No. 3 (Spring 2001), pp. 153-185.
[Reprinted in Maria Rost Rublee and Ramesh Thakur, eds., Nuclear Politics (Thousand
Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2014)]
“To Go or Not to Go: South and North Korea’s Nuclear Decisions in Comparative Context,” co-
authored with Seung-Young Kim and Henning Riecke, Journal of East Asian Studies Vol. 1, No. 1
(February 2001), pp. 91-154.
[Also published in Korean in Gyegan Sasang Vol. 12, No. 2 (Summer 2000), pp. 194-258]
“Isotopes and Identity: Australia and the Nuclear Weapons Option, 1945-1999,” The
Nonproliferation Review Vol. 7, No. 1 (Spring 2000), pp. 1-23.
[Article selected for the Nonproliferation Review 20th Anniversary Collection in 2013]
“Les perspectives de la prolifération nucléaire et le cas de l’Inde,” in Cahiers du Centre d’Etudes
d’Histoire de la Défense (Paris, France), No. 12 (Winter 2000), pp. 71-86.
“Do Too Many Chefs Really Spoil the Broth? The European Commission, Bureaucratic Politics
and European Integration,” Center for European Studies Working Paper Series No. 9.2, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Summer 1999
“Anything but Normal: The Unemployed Occupy the Ecole Normale Supérieure,” co-authored
with Sylvain Perdigon, French Politics and Society Vol. 16, No. 3 (Summer 1998).
[Reprinted in the Bulletin de la Société des Amis de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure No. 213
(July 1999)]
RECENT PAPERS IN PROGRESS
(all single-authored unless otherwise noted)
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Nations and Denominations: The Politics of National Identity and Paper Money (100,000-word
single-authored book manuscript, manuscript conference held by USC Center for International
Studies, April 2020)
“The Bomb as God” (submitted for peer review, May 2020).
(with Fumiya Uchikoshi) “To Drill or not to Drill: Determinants of Geothermal Energy Project
Siting in Japan” (Revise and Resubmit, May 2020)
(with Toshihiro Higuchi) “The 1960 Vinča Dosimetry Experiment and the Possibilities and
Limits of the IAEA’s Quest for Autonomy” (submitted for peer review, September 2019).
(with M. Daniela Maag) “From Banal Nationalism to Banal Hegemony? The Psychological
Impact of Dollarization in Contemporary Ecuador” (paper presented at ISA-West 2019).
“Applying Social Identity Theory to International Politics: A Caution and an Agenda” (available at
ResearchGate; presented at ISA 2002)
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Michael D. Cohen, When Proliferation Causes Peace: The Psychology of Nuclear
Crises, in The Nonproliferation Review online, August 2019.
Review of Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Unclear Physics: Why Iraq and Libya Failed to Build
Nuclear Weapons, in H-Diplo/ISSF Forum online, August 2017.
Review of Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley, Barriers to Bioweapons: The Challenges of Expertise
and Organization for Weapons Development, in H-Diplo/ISSF Forum online, October 2016.
Review of Sarah Bridger, Scientists at War: The Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research, in
Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Summer 2016).
Review of Vipin Narang, Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era, in Political Science Quarterly
Vol. 130, No. 2 (Summer 2015), pp. 388-390.
Review of Gudrun Harrer, Dismantling the Iraqi Nuclear Programme: The Inspections of the
International Atomic Energy Agency, 1991-1998, in Bulletin of Atomic Scientists online, March
25, 2014. URL: http://thebulletin.org/how-iaea-went-lapdog-watchdog-iraq7099
[Also published as “IAEA: Vom Schoß zum Wachhund,” Der Standard (Vienna) in print and
online, May 17, 2014. URL: http://derstandard.at/1399507815067/Vom-Schoss-zum-
Wachhund?_blogGroup=1]
Author’s comments in the Review Roundtable on my book Achieving Nuclear Ambitions
(Reviewers: Michael Chase, Matthew Fuhrmann, and Gaurav Kampani. Roundtable introduction
by James McAllister) in H-Diplo/ISSF Forum online (October 2013). URL: http://www.h-
net.org/~diplo/ISSF/PDF/ISSF-Roundtable-6-3.pdf
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Review of Spencer Weart, The Rise of Nuclear Fear, in H-War, H-Net Reviews online (March
2013). URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=35709
Review of Etel Solingen, Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East, in
Perspectives on Politics Vol. 6, No. 3 (September 2008), pp. 648-649
Review of Raj Chengappa, Weapons of Peace: The Secret Story of India’s Quest to be a Nuclear
Power, in The Telegraph (India), June 16, 2000
HONORS AND GRANTS FROM NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL SOURCES
2018: Japan Foundation Fellowship for Short-Term Research on Japan, for 2 months of research
on Japanese energy policy, October-November 2018. Awarded $12,000
2018: Association of Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council/Japan-US Friendship Commission
grant for summer research on Japanese energy policy, May-August 2018. Awarded $5,000
2017: Visiting Associate Professor, Top Global University Project, School of Political Science and
Economics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, Fall 2017
2015: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Advanced Social Science Research
on Japan, for full year of research on Japan’s international relations, June 2015-May 2016.
Awarded $50,400
2015: Strathmartine Trust grant for research on the history of Japan’s relations with Scotland.
Awarded £1000
2014: Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for Achieving Nuclear Ambitions,
from the University of Louisville, 2014. Awarded $100,000
2013: Louis Brownlow Award for best book on public administration published during the
previous two years, from the National Academy of Public Administration, 2013.
2013: Don K. Price Award for best book on science, technology, and environmental politics
published during the previous three years, from the American Political Science
Association’s Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section, 2013.
2011: Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship for interdisciplinary research in Japan
studies and nuclear engineering, 2011-2014. Awarded $212,000
2011: Achieving Nuclear Ambitions book manuscript selected as the focus for the 2011 Lone Star
National Security Forum, April 2011. Awarded $1,000
2011: Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership grant to organize panel discussion at 2011
Association for Asian Studies conference, Honolulu, HI. Awarded $4,466
2008: SSRC-Abe Fellowship for full year of research on nuclear non-proliferation, July 2008-
August 2009. Awarded $76,269
2007: Edgar S. Furniss Book Award for the best first book in International Security Studies
published during the previous year, from the Mershon Center at the Ohio State University,
2007.
2007: Alexander L. George Book Award for best book published in the field of Political
Psychology during the previous year, from the International Society of Political
Psychology, 2007.
2006: Luce Foundation Fellow on Peace, Governance, and Development in East Asia, from the
East Asia Institute (Seoul, South Korea), 2006-2007. Awarded approx. $10,000
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2005: Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) grant for research and language study
in Germany, summer 2005. Awarded approx. $5,000
2002: Named a “New Face in Security Studies,” Triangle Institute for Security Studies housed at
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, September 2002. One of ten individuals
nationwide selected for this honor
1998: Research Fellowship, Institute for the Study of World Politics, 1998-9. Awarded approx.
$5,000
1995: National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1995-8. Awarded approx. $45,000
MEDIA COMMENTARY
Academic advisor for documentary film:
NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) documentary “Tube Alloys: Churchill’s Hidden Strategy”
[“チューブ・アロイズ~秘められたチャーチルの戦略”], aired on NHK BS1 channel, January
27, 2019
Articles published in newspapers, magazines and websites:
“The Psychology of Nuclear Restraint,” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists online, October 12, 2015
“Geothermal Energy in Latin America: Under the Volcano,” ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin
America, September 2015, pp. 42-44
“Churchill and Hiroshima,” London Review of Books “LRB Blog” online, August 6, 2015
“Don’t Fear a Sneak-Out: Why Iran Can’t Secretly Build the Bomb,” Foreign Affairs online,
December 9, 2014
“Reply” to critique of my “Veto Players and Japanese Nuclear Policy” paper at H-Energy, URL:
https://networks.h-net.org/node/19200/discussions/40166/re-veto-players-and-japanese-nuclear-
policy-after-fukushima#reply-40842
“Don’t Panic if the Iran Nuclear Negotiations Fail,” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists online, February
12, 2014. Also posted at the Canadian International Council website OpenCanada.
“Befriend the Scientists: How to Bring Iran’s Nuclear Program Into the Fold,” Foreign Affairs
online, December 3, 2013
“Iran Is Still Botching the Bomb,” Foreign Affairs online, February 18, 2013
“The Good News About Nuclear Proliferation,” Canadian International Council website
OpenCanada, August 16, 2012
“North Korea’s Lessons for (Not) Building an Atomic Bomb,” Foreign Affairs online, April 16,
2012
“Crying Wolf about an Iranian Nuclear Bomb,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists online, January
17, 2012
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“Nuclear Policy Gridlock in Japan,” Policy Brief, Belfer Center for Science and International
Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, online November 2011
“The Non-Proliferation Treaty as a Conditional Norm,” co-authored with Yoshiko M. Herrera,
PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 142 (May 2011)
“India between ‘Soft State’ and ‘Soft Power,’” India in Transition (University of Pennsylvania
Center for Advanced Study of India), online January 19, 2010
“Discarding Tired Assumptions about North Korea,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists online, May
28, 2009
“Reining in the North” (response to letter to the editor), Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Vol. 63,
No. 6 (November/December 2007), pp. 4-5
“Understanding the Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation,” NewsSmith (Spring 2006), p. 12
“Think Again: Nuclear Proliferation,” Foreign Policy online, November 2005
“Threats on the Nuclear Horizon” (letter to the editor), The New York Times, May 13, 2005
“Inside a Bomb Shell,” The Hindustan Times (India), April 16, 2001
“The Strangelove Fallacy,” The Telegraph (India), July 6, 2000
“Atomic Paranoia,” The Telegraph (India), September 6, 1999
Quoted in the press (partial list):
Jonathan Tirone, “Iran Offered Lesson by Argentine Bid to Head Nuclear Agency,” Bloomberg
News online, August 9, 2019.
BBC Mundo, “Por qué Rusia está apoyando a Turquía en el inicio de su programa nuclear con la
construcción de una central,” online, April 4, 2018
Tom Jacobs, “The Psychology of a Nuclear Standoff: A Prominent Scholar of International
Relations Analyzes the Disquieting Events of Recent Days,” Pacific Standard online, August 12,
2017.
Chris Jennewein, “USC Professor: North Korea’s Missiles Can’t Yet Reach West Coast,” Times
of San Diego online, August 9, 2017.
Kim Brunhuber, “North Korean Nuclear Threat Has Californians Updating ‘Duck and Cover’,”
CBC News online, August 9, 2017.
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Kjølv Egeland, “UK Nukes: Why the World is Asking Britain to Disarm,” New Internationalist
online, October 26, 2016.
“North Korea’s Scarily Plausible Claim to Have A Miniaturized Nuclear Warhead, Explained,”
by Zack Beauchamp, Vox.com, March 9, 2016.
“A Brief History of North Korea’s Nuclear Program and the Failed US Campaign to Stop It,” by
Zack Beauchamp, Vox.com, January 7, 2016.
“Should Congress Approve the Iran Deal? Foreign Affairs’ Brain Trust Weighs In,” Foreign
Affairs online, September 7, 2015.
“Ro på: Atomtruslen er mindre end i mange år,” by Poul Høi, Berlingske (Denmark), August 5,
2015.
“Why Does Iran Even Have a Nuclear Program in the First Place?” by Zack Beauchamp, Vox.com,
July 20, 2015.
“USC Experts: Iran Deal Has Broad Implications for International Security, but More Work Left to
Do,” by Andrew Good, USC News, July 15, 2015.
“Iranian Scientists and the Nuclear Deal,” by Alexander Montgomery, Washington Post, April 6,
2015.
“Why Netanyahu Is Willing to Blow Up his Relationship with Obama over Iran,” by Zack
Beauchamp, Vox.com, March 3, 2015.
“Spy Rings, Religious Intolerance and Japan’s Sovereignty,” by Susan Bell, USC News, February
20, 2015.
“Iran Nuclear Talks Extended Once Again,” by Zou Shan, Sanlian Lifeweek (China), December
10, 2014.
“The Iran Nuclear Negotiations Start a Sprint,” by Zou Shan, Sanlian Lifeweek (China), November
18, 2014.
“An Expert on Nuclear Weapons Explains the Very Basics of Iran’s Nuclear Program,” by Zack
Beauchamp, Vox.com, November 13, 2014.
“Iran Negotiations Go Into Overtime,” by Zou Shan, Sanlian Lifeweek (China), July 31, 2014.
“Iran Nuclear Negotiations: How Close Are We to Reaching a Final Agreement?” by Zou Shan,
Sanlian Lifeweek (China), May 6, 2014.
“Grawemeyer Award Winners Visit Campus,” by Nick Miller, The Louisville Cardinal, April 18,
2014.
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“Grawemeyer Winner Says Scientists Hold the Key to Nuclear Weapons Success,” by Janet
Cappiello, U of L Today online, April 18, 2014.
“Japan Producing Huge, Lightly Guarded Stockpile of Plutonium,” by Douglas Birch, R. Jeffrey
Smith, and Jake Adelstein, Center for Public Integrity special report for NBC News online, March
11, 2014.
“Japan Has Nuclear ‘Bomb in the Basement,’ and China Isn’t Happy,” by Robert Windrem, NBC
News and CNBC News online, March 11, 2014.
“Interim Agreement Reached on Iran’s Nuclear Programs,” by Zou Shan, Sanlian Lifeweek
(China), December 3, 2013.
“Nuclear Weapons Insights Earn USC Professor Grawemeyer Award,” by James R. Carroll,
Louisville Courier-Journal, December 2, 2013
“The Success and Failure of Iran Nuclear Talks in Geneva,” by Zou Shan, Sanlian Lifeweek
(China), November 20, 2013
“Better Understanding North Korea: Q&A with Seven East Asian Experts,” by Charles Blair,
Federation of American Scientists Strategic Security Blog, April 17, 2013
“North Korea Vows to Restart Shuttered Nuclear Reactor That Can Make Bomb-Grade
Plutonium,” by Chico Harlan, The Washington Post, April 2, 2013
“Author Spotlight: Jacques Hymans,” by Zachary Keck, The Diplomat [website], August 29, 2012
“North Korea’s Performance Anxiety,” by William J. Broad, New York Times, May 5, 2012
“Israel’s Security Bosses Deride Netanyahu on Iran,” by Jonathan Manthorpe, Vancouver Sun
(Canada), May 1, 2012
“Das Osirak-Orakel,” by Gudrun Harrer, Der Standard (Austria), April 28, 2012
“Bang Goes the Euro,” by Lawrence De Geest, The Bulletin (Belgium), April 2011
“Nuclear Mystique,” by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, Hindustan Times (India), March 19, 2011
“Ending the Stalemate,” by Trefor Moss, Jane’s Defense Weekly, December 22, 2010
“The Interview in Nippon: Jacques E. C. Hymans,” Mainichi Shimbun (Japan), November 20,
2006 (in Japanese)
“Gorton’s Grand Plan to Produce an N-Bomb,” by Joseph Kerr, The Australian (Australia), May
27, 2006
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Appearances on television and radio:
Interviewed about North Korea and nuclear proliferation on “Morning Wave in Busan” hosted by
Katherine Bang, Busan e-FM 90.5, Busan, South Korea, January 7, 2016
Interviewed about nuclear proliferation on “BBC World Service Newshour” hosted by Owen
Bennett-Jones, broadcast worldwide, January 10-11, 2013
Interviewed about nuclear proliferation on WFPL 89.3 FM News Louisville, Kentucky, December
2, 2013
Interviewed about nuclear proliferation on Annenberg TV News nightly newscast airing on USC
Trojan Vision, April 10, 2013
Interviewed about North Korea and nuclear proliferation (30 minutes airtime) on “The Scholars’
Circle” hosted by Maria Armoudian, KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles and Pacifica radio stations
nationwide, April 7, 2013
Interviewed in Spanish about North Korea and nuclear proliferation on Univisión 34 Noticias, Los
Angeles, April 2, 2013
Interviewed about nuclear proliferation on “The Bill Carroll Show,” KFI 640 AM serving Los
Angeles and Orange County, April 2, 2013
Interviewed about nuclear proliferation (60 minutes airtime) on “The Jim Bohannon Show,”
DialGlobal Network program aired by 500+ radio stations nationwide, April 20, 2012
Interviewed about nuclear proliferation (60 minutes airtime) on “Open Line with Fred Andrle,”
aired by WOSU-FM (Columbus, Ohio NPR affiliate), February 25, 2008
Interviewed about nuclear proliferation on America Abroad Radio program “Bomb Scare:
Confronting the Nuclear Threat,” aired on National Public Radio stations across the US in
December and January 2007
Interviewed about the Iraq War on WCMH-TV Channel 4 News (Columbus, Ohio NBC Affiliate),
March 7, 2003 and on WBNS-TV Channel 10 News (Columbus, Ohio CBS Affiliate), March 18,
2003
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND AFFILIATIONS
Board memberships:
Editorial Board, Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, Spring 2017-present
Editorial Board, Korean Journal of International Studies, Fall 2013-present
Editorial Board, The Nonproliferation Review, Spring 2008-present
Editorial Board, Journal of Global Security Studies, Fall 2014-2019
Editorial Board, International Studies Quarterly, Fall 2013-December 2018
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Academic Advisory Board, America Abroad Media (public affairs NGO focused on international
affairs), Spring 2008-January 2012
Disciplinary committee memberships:
Distinguished Security Scholar Award selection panel member, ISA Security Studies Section,
Spring 2008
Peer-Review Referee: Cambridge University Press; Columbia University Press; Cornell University
Press; Manchester University Press, Oxford University Press; Palgrave Macmillan; Polity Books;
Routledge; Stanford University Press; University of Toronto Press; Grawemeyer Award for Ideas
Improving World Order; Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council; Israel
Science Foundation; American Journal of Political Science, Asian Politics and Policies, Asian
Survey, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, China Review, Contemporary
Japan, Contemporary Security Policy, Diplomacy and Statecraft, Energy Research and Social
Science, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, Ethics and International
Affairs, Europe-Asia Studies, European Journal of International Relations, European Journal of
International Security, Foreign Policy Analysis, India Review, International Journal of Asian
Studies, International Political Science Review, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific,
International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Cold War Studies, Journal of
Conflict Resolution, Journal of East Asian Studies, Journal of European Integration, Journal of
Global Security Studies, Journal of Historical Sociology, Journal of International Relations and
Development, Journal of Peace Research, National Identities, Nonproliferation Review, Pacific
Review, Poetics, Political Geography, Politics & Policy, Review of International Political
Economy, Security Studies, Sociological Forum, Journal of Strategic Studies, World Politics
Affiliations with other universities:
Visiting Researcher, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, May 2018-December 2018
Visiting Professor, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Waseda University, September
2017-December 2017
Visiting Researcher, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, June 2015-August 2016
Visiting Researcher, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of
Tokyo, June 2013-August 2014
Visiting Researcher, Nuclear Engineering Department, University of Tokyo, Mar.-Aug. 2012
Visiting Researcher, Nuclear Engineering Department, UC Berkeley, Sept.-Dec. 2011
Research Associate, Politics & International Studies Department, School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London, England, June 2011-present
Visiting Researcher, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, May 2010-Aug. 2010
Visiting Researcher, Faculty of Law, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, June 2008-Aug. 2009
Faculty Associate, Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, Fall 2003-Spring
2008
Faculty Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Fall 2003-
Spring 2008 [Co-organized 2005-6 CES study group “Democratization from Outside:
American and European Perspectives Compared”]
Visiting Faculty Fellow, Associated Kyoto Program, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, spring
semester 2007
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Visiting Researcher, Institute for Social Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, June
2006-Aug. 2007
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION AND INVITED TALKS
Panelist, discussant and/or chair at academic association conferences:
American Political Science Association annual conference (2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013,
2012*, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998)
International Studies Association annual conference (2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012,
2011, 2010, 2008, 2006, 2002)
International Political Science Association bi-annual conference (2016, 2012, 2006, 2000)
Association for Asian Studies annual conference (2015, 2012, 2011)
Midwest Political Science Association annual conference (2019, 2003)
Japan Society for Science, Technology and Society annual conference (2013)
Korean Association of International Studies annual conference (2013; special plenary speaker)
National Academy of Public Administration annual conference (2013; special plenary speaker)
ISA International Security Studies Section/ APSA International Security and Arms Control Section
annual conference (2009, 1999)
Japan Association for International Relations annual conference (2009: special plenary speaker)
Social Science History Association annual conference (2009)
Northeast Association for Asian Studies annual conference (2003)
Western Political Science Association annual conference (2000)
Panelist, discussant, and/or chair at academic specialized conferences:
Princeton University Program on Science and Global Security conference on “Nuclear
Embeddedness and (Ir)reversibility” (2019)
Sokendai (Kanagawa, Japan) international conference on“Nuclear Diplomacies” (2018)
USC East Asian Studies Center conference on East Asian Business (2018)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Nuclear Nonproliferation Education and
Research Center (KAIST NEREC) “Promoting Nuclear Nonproliferation” conference
(2016, 2017)
Stanford “Juku” in Japanese Political Economy (2016)
University of Toronto G-7 Research Group “Ise-Shima Summit” conference (2016)
UC Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies “70 Years after Hiroshima” conference (2015)
CGP-SSRC Possible Futures Japan conference (2012)
UC Berkeley/Univ. of Tokyo Summer School in Social Science for Nuclear Engineers (2010)
Social Science Research Council Abe Fellows Program annual retreat (2010)
Norwegian Nobel Institute Symposium “Peace, Stability, and Nuclear Order” (2009)
USC Korean Studies Institute “Rising Stars of Political Science” conference (2009)
Center for Nonproliferation Studies “Forecasting Nuclear Proliferation” conferences (2007, 2008)
University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Study of India “The Future of India’s Foreign
Policy” conference (2008)
USC Center for International Studies “Where Have All The Weapons Gone?” conference (2007)
Ohio State University Mershon Center “Ostpolitik” conference (2006)
Naval Postgraduate School “Nuclear Weapons Proliferation 2016” conference (2006)
University of Pittsburgh, “Working Group on Preemptive and Preventive Military Intervention”
conferences (2004)
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Harvard University, “Identity as a Variable” conference (2004)
Harvard University, “Measuring Identity” conference (2002)
University of Notre Dame, “The Year of the Euro” conference (2002)
University of Wisconsin, MacArthur Consortium “Fact and Fiction in Post-Authoritarian
Societies” conference (2001)
Other invited talks:
In North America (since 2010 only):
USC Annenberg School seminar. Topic: Banknote Iconography (Spring 2017)
UC Irvine international sociology seminar. Topic: Banknote Iconography (Spring 2017)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Topic: Achieving Nuclear Ambitions (Fall 2015)
Harvard University Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Topic: Productive
and Counterproductive Rhetorics of Nuclear Disarmament (Spring 2015)
Pacific Council on International Policy, Los Angeles. Topic: The Iran Nuclear Deal (Spring
2015)
Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Canada. Topic: Leaders’ Emotions and
Preferences for Disarmament (Spring 2015).
California Club of Los Angeles. Topic: A Nuclear Iran? (Spring 2015)
Duke University Political Science Department and American Grand Strategy Program.
Topic: Leaders’ Emotions and Preferences for Disarmament (Spring 2015).
University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award lecture. Topic: Achieving Nuclear Ambitions
(Spring 2014)
Louisville Committee on Foreign Relations. Topic: Achieving Nuclear Ambitions (Spring
2014)
Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School. Topic: Victorian Britain’s Recognition of
Imperial Japan (Spring 2014)
Skirball Cultural Center global issues talk series, Los Angeles. Topic: Assessing Threats to
the US (Spring 2013)
SMU Political Science department. Topic: Achieving Nuclear Ambitions (Fall 2012)
MIT Political Science department. Topic: Achieving Nuclear Ambitions (Fall 2012)
Texas A&M Bush School of Government. Topic: Achieving Nuclear Ambitions (Fall 2012)
Global Security Seminar at UCLA. Topic: Achieving Nuclear Ambitions (Fall 2012)
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Topic: Achieving Nuclear Ambitions
(Fall 2011)
UC Berkeley MIRTH seminar. Topic: Achieving Nuclear Ambitions (Fall 2011)
UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering department. Topic: Achieving Nuclear Ambitions (Fall
2010)
UC Irvine international sociology seminar. Topic: Achieving Nuclear Ambitions (Fall
2010)
US Department of State, Washington, DC. Topic: Defining “Nuclear Weapon States”
(Spring 2010)
Nonproliferation Review briefing at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
Washington, DC. Topic: Defining “Nuclear Weapon States” (Spring 2010)
In Brazil:
Fundação Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro. Topic: Achieving Nuclear Ambitions (Fall 2011)
In China:
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Fudan University, Shanghai. Topic: Nuclear North Korea (two presentations) (2007)
Peking University, Beijing. Topic: Nuclear North Korea (two presentations) (2007)
In France:
French Ministry of Defense (Direction des Affaires Stratégiques), Paris. Topic: Nuclear
Yugoslavia (2009)
French Ministry of Defense (Direction des Affaires Stratégiques), Paris. Topic: Nuclear
North Korea (2008)
French Ministry of Defense (Direction des Affaires Stratégiques), Paris. Topic: The
Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation (2006)
Association Française du Mouvement Pugwash, Paris. Topic: Nuclear India (1999)
Centre d’Histoire d’Etudes de la Défense, Paris. Topic: Nuclear India (1999)
Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. Topic: The NPT (1996)
Université de Paris XIII. Topic: Identity and Foreign Policy (1996)
In Germany:
Harvard Center for European Studies, Berlin. Topic: US Military Transformation (2007)
In Japan:
University of Tokyo. Topic: Contemporary Trends in Banknote Iconography (2018)
Keio University, Tokyo. Topic: Nuclear Proliferation (2018)
University of Tokyo. Topic: Geothermal Energy in Japan (2017)
Keio University, Tokyo. Topic: Nuclear Proliferation (2017)
University of Tokyo. Topic: Banknote Iconography in East Asia (2017)
University of Tokyo. Topic: Geothermal Energy in Japan (2016)
University of Tokyo. Topic: British Neutrality in the Sino-Japanese War (2016)
Keio University, Tokyo. Topic: The Limits of Japan’s Energy Angst (2015)
Waseda University, Tokyo. Topic: Taiwan’s Banknote Iconography (2015)
University of Tokyo. Topic: Global Trends in Currency Iconography (2014)
University of Tokyo. Topic: Victorian Britain’s Recognition of Imperial Japan (2014)
University of Tokyo. Topic: Achieving Nuclear Ambitions (2014)
Keio University, Tokyo. Topic: Empathy and East Asian Security (panel discussant) (2013)
International House of Japan. Topic: Nuclear Japan after Fukushima (2012)
Keio University, Tokyo. Topic: Nuclear Japan after Fukushima (2012)
Keio University, Tokyo. Topic: Achieving Nuclear Ambitions (two presentations) (2012)
University of Tokyo. Topic: Nuclear Japan after Fukushima (2012)
Temple University, Tokyo campus. Topic: Japan’s Nuclear Policy Gridlock (2012)
National Institute of Defense Studies (Tokyo, Japan). Topic: The Political Foundations of
Nuclear Achievement (2010)
University of Tokyo. Topic: The Political Foundations of Nuclear Achievement (2010)
The Japan Foundation, Tokyo. Topic: Nuclear Japan (2009)
Keio University, Tokyo. Topic: Britain and Hiroshima (two presentations) (2008)
Keio University, Tokyo. Topic: Global Nuclear Proliferation (2008)
American Center Tokyo. Topic: Nuclear North Korea. Sponsored by US State Department
(2007)
American Center Fukuoka. Topic: Nuclear North Korea. Sponsored by US State
Department (2007)
Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo. Topic: The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation (2007)
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Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Policy Planning division), Tokyo. Topic: Nuclear
North Korea (two presentations) (2007)
Keio University, Tokyo. Topic: Nuclear North Korea (2007)
United Nations University, Tokyo. Topic: The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation (2007)
University of Tokyo. Topic: Germany as a Non-Nuclear Weapon State (2007)
University of Tokyo. Topic: Nuclear North Korea (2007)
Keio University, Tokyo. Topic: The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation (2006)
Kobe University. Topic: The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation (2006)
Nichibunken International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto. Topic: Japanese
Currency Iconography (2005)
Smith College “January in Kyoto” Program. Topic: Japanese Currency Iconography (2005)
Kobe University. Topic: The US Defense Budget (2005)
Kobe University. Topic: The US Elections and Foreign Policy (2004)
Hiroshima Peace Institute. Topic: US Counterproliferation Policies (2003)
Hiroshima Peace Institute. Topic: The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation (2003)
In South Korea:
East Asia Institute, Seoul. Topic: Nuclear North Korea (two presentations) (2007)
Korea University, Seoul. Topic: Nuclear North Korea (two presentations) (2007)
Seoul National University. Topic: Nuclear North Korea (2007)
Yonsei University, Seoul. Topic: Nuclear North Korea (2007)
In the United Kingdom:
London School of Economics. Topic: Explaining Support for the NPT (2018)
University of London. Topic: Nuclear India (1999)
HONORS AND GRANTS FROM HOME INSTITUTIONS
USC Undergraduate Research Associates Program grant, 2016-17 ($3200), 2017-2018 ($6400),
2018-19 ($6400), 2019-2020 ($3300), 2020-2021 ($3300)
USC Center for International Studies research assistance and professional development grants:
2009-10, 2010-11, 2012-13, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2018-2019, 2019-2020,
2020-2021
USC Korean Studies Institute Sejong Society research grant, 2012-2013 ($3000); 2013-2014
($2000), 2014-2015 ($2000)
USC Tsai Family Research Fund for Taiwan Studies research grant [college-wide competition],
Summer 2013 ($2000)
USC Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences research grant [college-wide
competition], 2012-2013 ($11,700).
“Hands-on Foreign Policy Analysis” seminar proposal selected for the inaugural USC College
“Maymester” 2011 [One of only five courses selected in a college-wide competition]
USC Starter Grant, July 2008
Smith College Committee on Faculty Compensation and Development Research Grants: 2005-6,
2006-7
Smith College Jean Picker Fellowship (monetary award and course release), 2005-6
Smith College Starter Grant, September 2003
Mellon Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Harvard University, 1999-2000
Krupp Foundation Academic Year Fellowship, Harvard Center for European Studies, 1998-9
Raymond Vernon Scholar, Harvard University, 1994-2001
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National Scholar, Harvard University, 1990-2001
TEACHING AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Teaching and service at USC:
Courses taught:
“Historical Approaches to International Relations” (IR 212), Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2019,
Fall 2019, Spring 2020
“US Defense and Foreign Policy: Nonproliferation and Weapons of Mass Destruction” (IR 445),
Spring 2020, Summer 2020
“Senior Honors Thesis Seminar” (IR 494), Fall 2019
“Field Research in International Relations” (IR 519), Spring 2019
“Introduction to International Security” (IR 381), Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Fall
2014
“Introduction to East Asian Studies” (EASC 150g), Spring 2013
“Theories of War” (IR 402), Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Fall 2012, Fall 2014, Fall 2016
“Conflict and Cooperation” (IR 502), Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2012, Spring 2015, Spring 2017
“Developing Countries in World Politics” (IR 344), Spring/Maymester 2011, Spring 2015
Graduate thesis advising:
1. Kevin Oakley (chair of M.A. thesis committee; completed 2011).
2. David A. Walker (member of Ph.D thesis committee: completed 2013).
3. In Young Min (member of Ph.D thesis committee: completed 2018).
4. Ronan Tse-min Fu (member of Ph.D thesis committee: completed 2019).
5. Han-hui Hsieh (member of Ph.D thesis committee: in progress).
6. Miriam Barnum (member of Ph.D thesis committee: in progress).
7. Pongkwan Sawasdipakdi (member of PH.D thesis committee: in progress)
Departmental leadership and Committees:
Director of School of International Relations Senior Honors Thesis Program (2019-20, 2020-21)
Center for International Studies advisory committee (Spring 2019, 2019-2020)
USC Dornsife Endowed Fellowship committee (2016-2017)
School of International Relations (SIR) Director’s Council (2009-10, 2010-11, 2012-2013, 2016-
2017)
SIR professor of practice promotion committee (chair) (2016-2017)
Korean Studies Institute summer grants committee (2015)
Center for International Studies advisory committee (2014-2015)
Political Science and International Relations steering committee (2014-2015)
SIR tenure track professor evaluation committee (2014)
SIR Professor of Practice job search committee (2012-2013)
Organizing committee for Air Force National Security Conference at USC (2011)
Other university service:
Organized and moderated various public talks at USC, including by David Elliott, Peter Hayes,
Yoshiko Herrera, Toshihiro Higuchi, Yasuyoshi Komizo, Deborah Larson, Ibrahim al-Marashi,
John Mueller, William Potter, Sidney Rittenberg, Tuong Vu, and Tiejun Yu (2009-present);
Mentored numerous USC graduate and undergraduate research assistants with funding from CIS,
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SURF and SOAR (2009-present); Moderator of CIS public forum on the Iran nuclear deal (spring
2015); Created and led “Club 502” monthly dissertation prospectus workshop (2012-2013);
Panelist for SIR “Burning Issues” public forum on US Iran policy (spring 2013); Gave guest
lecture to USC-Singapore Management University joint course on US-East Asian relations (spring
2013); Interviewed USC Fulbright applicants (2009)
Affiliations:
USC East Asian Studies Center, 2010-present
USC Korean Studies Institute, 2009-present
USC Center for International Studies, 2008-present
Teaching and service at Smith College:
Courses taught:
“Introduction to International Politics” (Gov 241), Fall 2004, Spring 2006, Spring 2008
“United States Foreign Policy” (Gov 244), Fall 2003, Spring 2005, Fall 2007
“Perspectives on War” (Gov 246), Spring 2004, Spring 2006, Fall 2007
“Weapons of Mass Destruction” (Gov 341), Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2008
“International Perspectives on Contemporary Security Issues” (Gov 341), Fall 2005
Senior theses advised:
Claire Applegarth, B.A. 2004 (received summa cum laude)
Laura Hancock, B.A. 2008 (received summa cum laude)
Committees:
Smith College Study Abroad Committee (2007-8) and various Government Dept. committees
Other college service:
Advised dozens of major and pre-major advisees; organized and moderated numerous talks at
Smith by outside speakers; organized and participated in numerous information sessions for
students; oversaw numerous undergraduate research assistants; Faculty fellow of Smith’s Kahn
Liberal Arts Institute (2004-5)
Teaching and service at other institutions:
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, Fall 2019: taught undergraduate course “Selected Topics in
Political Science: Nuclear Weapons Proliferation” and graduate course “Advanced Topics
in Political Science: Constructivist Perspectives on International Security”
Associated Kyoto Program, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, Spring 2007: taught
undergraduate course “Perspectives on War: Japan edition”
Korea University International Summer Campus, Seoul, South Korea, Summer 2004: taught
undergraduate course “Great Power Diplomacy and Conflict”
LANGUAGES
1. English (native)
2. French (fluent)
3. Spanish (near-fluent)
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4. Japanese (advanced level. Passed Japan Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) Level 2, the second-
highest level in the JLPT test sequence, in January 2019)
5. German (intermediate level)