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Lee Joseph Marshall SeymourCURRENT POSITION
Associate Professor (untenured), Political Science, Université de Montréal, 2015-
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, 2014-2015
Assistant Professor, Institute of Political Science, Leiden University, 2009-2013
Postdoctoral Fellow, Belfer Center, Harvard University, 2008-2009
Visiting Researcher, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin, Germany, 2006-2008
Doctoral Researcher and Chateaubriand Fellow, Sciences Po Paris, 2005-2006
Researcher, Conflict and Human Security, The North-South Institute, Ottawa, 2000-2001
EDUCATION
PhD Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, December 2008
Doctoral Studies, Sciences Po, Paris, through dual-PhD program, 2005-2006
MA Dalhousie University, Political Science, 2001
BA University of British Columbia, Political Science, 1999
RESEARCH INTERESTS
International Relations, Comparative Politics, African Studies
Civil war, political violence, social movements, secession, self-determination
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Articles
E Pluribus Unum, Ex Uno Plures: Explaining Fragmentation in Movements of Self-Determination, with Kristin Bakke and Kathleen Cunningham, Journal of Peace Research, forthcoming.
Why Factions Switch Sides: Rivalry, Patronage and Alignment in Sudan’s Civil Wars, International Security, 39(2), 2014: 92-131.
Let’s Bullshit! Arguing, Bargaining and Dissembling over Darfur, European Journal of International Relations, 20(3), 2014: 571-595.
Sovereignty, Territory, and Authority: Boundary Maintenance in Contemporary Africa, Critical African Studies, 5(1), 2013: 1-17.
Shirts Today, Skins Tomorrow: The Effects of Fragmentation on Self-Determination Disputes, with Kathleen Cunningham and Kristin Bakke, Journal of Conflict Resolution 56(1), 2012: 67-93.
A Plague of Initials: Fragmentation, Cohesion and Infighting in Civil Wars, with Kristin Bakke and Kathleen Cunningham, Perspectives on Politics 10(2), 2012: 265-284.
Peace Operations Finance and the Political Economy of a Way Out: Living Off the Land, with Jean Daudelin, International Peacekeeping, 9(2), 2002: 99-117.
Book Chapters
The ICC and Africa: Rhetoric, Hypocrisy Management and Legitimacy, in Kamari Clarke, Abel Knottnerus, and Eefje de Volder (eds.) Africa and the International Criminal Court, forthcoming.
Ethnic and Religious Divisions (with Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham), in Sara Mitchell and David Mason (eds.), What Do We Know About Civil Wars, Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming.
The Regional Politics of the Darfur Crisis, in David Black and Paul Williams, eds, The International Politics of Mass Atrocities: The Case of Darfur, Routledge, 2009.
Adopting Federalism: Sri Lanka and Sudan, with Rohan Edrisinha, Handbook of Federal Countries, Montreal: McGill University Press, 2004.
Ingérence humanitaire et ‘responsabilité de protéger’: Au-delà du droit et des bonnes intentions, with Jean Daudelin, in Yvan Conoir et Gérard Verna, eds, Action humanitaire internationale du Canada, Québec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 2003.
In Progress
Things Fall Apart: Cohesion and Fragmentation in Civil Wars, book manuscript.
Pathways to Secession: The Politics of Contemporary Separatist Conflict, book manuscript.
What if Pandora’s Box Is Empty? Rethinking Border Sanctity and Territorial Order, with Cris Boonen, article manuscript.
Stability, Political Orders and State-Militia Relations, with Romain Malejacq and Corinna Jentzsch, article manuscript.
AWARDS
Nomination for Faculty Wide Teaching Award (“Leidse Onderwijsprijs,” Leiden University, September 2013.
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) VENI research grant (€250,000), “Things Fall Apart: Cohesion and Fragmentation in Armed Groups.”
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, 2008-2009.
Best Paper by a Doctoral Student, Nationalism Section, Association for the Study of Nationalities, April 2008.
Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship, United States Institute of Peace, 2006-2007.
Presidential Fellowship, member of Society of Fellows, Northwestern University, 2006-08.
Dissertation Year Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2006-07 (declined).
Chateaubriand Fellowship, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2005-06.
Minar Award for outstanding PhD student in the Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, 2004.
Social Science and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship, Government of Canada, 2001-05.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 2014-
Mixed Methods Research Design, International Relations Theory, Civil Wars, Political Violence and Non-Violent Resistance MA Thesis Seminar
Leiden University, Netherlands, 2009-2013
International Security, International Relations Theory, Civil Wars and Political Violence, International Justice, American Foreign Policy, MA Thesis Seminar
Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany, 2007
Politics of Self-Determination, advanced undergraduate seminar
Northwestern University, Evanston, United States, 2005
National Security, advanced undergraduate summer seminar
FIELDWORK
Georgia and Abkhazia – September 2013 and December 2013
Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh – April 2013
Somaliland, Puntland and Mogadishu – August 2012
Somaliland – July-August 2011
Kosovo – December 2006
Ethiopia and Somaliland – June-July 2006
Kenya and southern Sudan – May-July 2005
Russia, Armenia, and Nagorno-Karabakh – August-September 2004
Southern Sudan – June-July 2003
Kenya and southern Sudan – August-September 2002
LANGUAGES
Advanced Dutch (B2/C1); advanced French (C1); beginner Spanish and German (A2)
SERVICE
Editorial Board of Journal of Global Security Studies
Reviewer for American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, Conflict Management and Peace Sciences, Cultures&Conflits, European Journal of International Relations, International Interactions, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Nations and Nationalism, Perspectives on Politics, Political Science Research and Methods, Regional and Federal Studies, Research and Politics, Review of International Studies, Security Studies, Space and Polity
Discussant and panel organizer at American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, Midwest Political Science Association, Association for Nationalism Studies, European Consortium for Political Research
REFERENCES
Dr. William RenoProfessor
Department of Political Science
Northwestern University
/ Dr. Hendrik Spruyt
Professor
Department of Political Science
Northwestern University
Dr. Ian Hurd
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Northwestern University
Dr. Kristin Bakke
Senior Lecturer
Politics and International Relations
University College London
/ Dr. Francesco Ragazzi
Assistant Professor
Institute of Political Science
Leiden University
Dr. Kathleen Cunningham
Associate Professor
Department of Government and Politics
University of Maryland
Dr. Marlies Glasius
Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Amsterdam