Catherine E. Weaver

The University of Texas at Austin

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Associate Professor and Graduate Director, Global Policy Studies, LBJ School of Public Affairs

Co-Director, Innovations for Peace and Development

Distinguished Scholar, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security & Law

Contact Info:

2315 Red River Street, SRH 3.358

Austin, Texas 78712
email:

Office Phone: (512) 232-3443

Skype: kateweaverUT

Twitter: @kateweaverUT

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Education

Ph.D., Political Science May 2003

University of Wisconsin, Madison

BA, Political Science and Russian April 1994

University of Michigan

Academic Positions

Associate Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, September 2010 – present

University of Texas at Austin

Assistant Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, January 2009 – August 2010

University of Texas at Austin

Assistant Professor of Political Science August 2002 – December 2008

University of Kansas

Research Fellow, Brookings Institution August 2001-2002

Washington, D.C.

Publications

Books:

Catherine Weaver. 2008. Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

~Co-recipient of the Chadwick Alger Prize for best book on International Organizations and Multilateralism, International Studies Association, 2009. (Co-recipient with Benjamin Schiff)

~Winner of the Society of Policy Scientists 2009 Harold D. Lasswell Prize.

Catherine Weaver and Nicola Phillips, eds. 2010. International Political Economy and the Transatlantic Divide. London, UK: Routledge Press.

Manuella Moschella and Catherine Weaver, eds. 2014. Handbook of Global Economic Governance. London, UK: Routledge Press.

Journal Articles:

Catherine Weaver. 2015. “The Rise of Chinese Development Finance: Continuity or Change in the Global Governance of Development?” Ethics & International Affairs, forthcoming.

Catherine Weaver and J.C. Sharman. 2013. “RIPE, the American School and Diversity in Global IPE,” Review of International Political Economy, 20(6).

J.C. Sharman and Catherine E. Weaver. 2013. “Between the Covers: International Relations in Books.” PS: Political Science and Politics, 46(1).

Catherine Weaver. 2010. "The Politics of Performance Evaluation: Independent Evaluation at the International Monetary Fund" Review of International Organizations, September 2010, pp.365-385.

Catherine Weaver. 2009. “IPE’s Split Brain.” Contribution to special issue on “The British School of IPE,” Nicola Phillips, ed., New Political Economy, vol.14, no.3 (September). (Reprinted in Phillips and Weaver 2010)

Catherine Weaver. 2009. “An IPE of Our Making.” Introduction to special issue “Not So Quiet on the Western Front: The American School of IPE.” Review of International Political Economy, vol.16, no.1: 1-5. (Special Issue Editor)

Catherine Weaver and Susan Park. 2007. “Poverty Alleviation and Human Development in the 21st Century: The Role of the World Bank,” Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, vol.13, no.4 (October-December): 461-469.

Catherine Weaver. 2007. “The World’s Bank and the Bank’s World,” Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, vol.13, no.4 (October-December): 493-512.

Catherine Weaver. 2007. “Reforming the World Bank: Promises and Pitfalls.” Brown Journal of World Affairs, vol.13, no.2 (Spring/Summer): 55-65.

Daniel Nielson, Michael Tierney and Catherine Weaver. 2006. “Bridging the Rationalist-Constructivist Divide: Engineering Change at the World Bank.” Journal of International Relations and Development, vol.9, no.2: 107-139.

Catherine Weaver and Ralf Leiteritz. 2005. “’Our Poverty is a World Full of Dreams’: Reforming the World Bank.” Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, vol.11, no.3 (Summer): 369-388.

Book Chapters (* = peer reviewed):

Catherine Weaver and Manuella Moschella. Accepted and forthcoming 2016. “Bounded Reform in the IMF and World Bank,” in Orfeo Fioretos, ed. International Politics and Institutions in Time. Forthcoming, Oxford University Press.

Stephen Nelson and Catherine Weaver. Accepted and forthcoming 2015. “The Cultures of International Organizations,” in Jacob Cogan, Ian Hurd and Ian Johnstone, eds. The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

*Catherine Weaver and Christian Peratsakis. 2014. “Engineering Policy Norm Implementation: The World Bank’s Transparency Transformation,” in Alexander Betts and Phil Orchard, eds. Implementation and World Politics: How International Norms Change Practice. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Manuella Moschella and Catherine Weaver. 2014. “Global Economic Governance: Players, Power and Paradigms,” in Moschelle and Weaver, eds. Handbook of Global Economic Governance: Players, Power and Paradigms. London: Routledge, 1-22.

*Catherine Weaver and Susan Park. 2012.“The Anatomy of IO Agency: Anticorruption and Environmental Reform at the World Bank.” In Joel Oestreich, ed. Agency in International Organizations. London: Routledge Press.

*Catherine Weaver. 2010. “The Strategic Social Construction of the World Bank’s Gender and Development Policy Norm,” in Susan Park and Antje Vetterlein, eds. Owning Development: Creating Global Policy Norms in the IMF and World Bank. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Catherine Weaver. 2010. “Reforming the World Bank,” in Jennifer Clapp and Rorden Wilkinson, eds, Governing Global Poverty and Inequality. London: Routledge Press, pp.112-132.

*Catherine Weaver. 2010. “Constructing Development: The World Bank’s Good Governance Agenda,” in Rawi Abdelal, Mark Blyth and Craig Parsons, eds. Constructing the International Economy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, pp.47-67.

Catherine Weaver. 2010. “Development Aid.” World At Risk: A Global Issues Sourcebook. Washington, D.C: Congressional Quarterly Publication, 2nd edition, pp.93-117.

Catherine Weaver. 2002. “Development Aid.” World At Risk: A Global Issues Sourcebook (Washington, D.C: Congressional Quarterly Publication): pp.110-133. Winner, Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2002.

Policy Reports and Briefs:

Catherine Weaver, Krista Rasmussen and Justin Baker. (CCAPS final report)

Catherine Weaver, Justin Baker, Krista Rasmussen and Joshua Powell. 2015. “Mapping Food Security Assistance in Malawi,” Brookings Frontiers Brief, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.

Catherine Weaver. 2014. “Climate Change and Development,” Military Education brief, Climate Change and African Political Stability Program, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security & Law, The University of Texas at Austin, October 2014.

Justin Baker, Emmy Griffin, Krista Rasmussen, and Catherine Weaver. 2014. “Tracking Climate Aid in Africa: The Case of the World Bank,” Policy Research Brief, Climate Change and African Political Stability Program, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security & Law, The University of Texas at Austin.

Catherine Weaver, Steve Davenport, Michael G. Findley, Joshua Powell, Justin Baker and Christian Peratsakis. 2014. Malawi’s Open Aid Map. Policy report. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Catherine Weaver, Justin Baker and Sarah McDuff. 2013. “Tracking Climate Aid in Africa: The Case of Malawi.” Policy Research Brief 18 for the Climate Change and African Political Stability Program, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security & Law, The University of Texas at Austin.

Catherine Weaver, Abigail Ofstedahl, Elena Rodriguez and Justin Baker. 2013. “Tracking Aid for Food Security: Methodology and Pilot Case Study in Malawi.” Policy Research Brief 17 for the Climate Change and African Political Stability Program, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security & Law, The University of Texas at Austin.

Christian Peratsakis, Justin Baker and Catherine Weaver. 2012. “Tracking Climate Adaptation Aid: CCAPS Methodology Codebook.” Policy brief for the Climate Change and African Political Stability Program, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security & Law, The University of Texas at Austin.

Catherine Weaver and Christian Peratsakis. 2011. “Aid for Climate Change Adaptation in Africa: How Much Do We Really Know?” Policy brief for the Climate Change and African Political Stability Program, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security & Law, The University of Texas at Austin.

Catherine Weaver and Christian Peratsakis. 2010. “International Development Assistance for Climate Change Adaptation in Africa: The Aid Scramble.” Policy brief for the Climate Change and African Political Stability Program, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security & Law, The University of Texas at Austin.

Minor Works (not peer reviewed):

Catherine Weaver. 2014. “A Return to Interests?” European Political Science.

Catherine Weaver. 2014. “Mind – and Measure – the Gap.” Symposium on The Academic and Policy Worlds: What Policymakers Learn from International Relations Scholars.” International Studies Quarterly online, 30 August 2014. Available at http://www.isanet.org/Publications/ISQ/Posts/ID/1421/Mind--and-Measure--the-Gap

Catherine Weaver. 2013. Review of Hunger in the Balance by Jennifer Clapp (Cornell University Press). Review of International Political Economy, 20(6).

Catherine Weaver. 2011. “Comment on Michaelowa and Michaelowa’s “Climate Business for Poverty Reduction? The Role of the World Bank.” Review of International Organizations, June 2011.

Catherine Weaver. 2007. “League of Nations,” in William Darity, ed. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. New York: Macmillan.

Catherine Weaver. 2006. Review of Paths to a Green World by Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne, Australian Journal of International Relations, June 2006.

Works in Progress:

Catherine Weaver. Open Development: International Aid Transparency and the Politics of Big Data. Book manuscript.

Fellowships/Grants

Key Investigator, Minerva Program Grant on “Complex Emergencies and Political 2014-2016

Stability in Asia,” United States Department of Defense ($1.9 million)

Principal Investigator (on UT subaward), USAID Higher Education Solutions Network 2012-2017

AidData Center for Development Policy ($25 million consortium grant; UT subaward:

$920,000)

Core Researcher, Minerva Program Grant on “Climate Change and African Political 2009-2015

Stability (CCAPS),” United States Department of Defense. ($7.6 million)

Closing the Looping: Evaluating the Impact of Aid Transparency. Research supported 2014-2015

by the LBJ School of Public Affairs, Policy Research Institute ($15,000)

Open Development: Transparency and the Politics of Aid Data. Research supported 2013-2014

by the LBJ School of Public Affairs, Policy Research Institute ($15,000)

The Paradox of Accountability: Transparency, Evaluation, and the IO Learning 2009-2010

Curve. Research supported by the LBJ School of Public Affairs, Policy

Research Institute, Multi-year Project in International Affairs ($15,000)

Co-Principal Investigator (with Dan Bernstein and Andrea Greenhoot), “Strategic 2008-2009

Improvement of Undergraduate Education in the University of Kansas.” Spencer

and Teagle Foundations ($80,000)

American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant ($5,000) Summer 2008

University of Kansas General Faculty Research Fund ($8,250) 2006-2007

University of Kansas Center for Teaching Excellence, Faculty Seminar Grant Fall 2005

University of Kansas Policy Research Institute, Grant for Spring Speakers Series Spring 2005

On Global Development ($5,000)

University of Kansas Center for Teaching Excellence Teaching Grant ($750) Summer 2004

University of Kansas Office of International Programs, Grant for Internationalizing Summer 2004

Curriculum ($850)

University of Kansas Policy Research Institute Faculty Fellowship ($5,000) Summer 2004

University of Kansas New Faculty General Research Fund Grant ($8,000) Summer 2004

University of Kansas Policy Research Institute Workshop Grant ($5,000) 2003-2004

International Studies Association Workshop Grant ($7,000) 2003-2004

Brookings Institution Research Fellowship, Foreign Policy Studies 2001-2002

Institute for the Study of World Politics Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999-2000

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Russian Language 1998-1999

University of Wisconsin, Madison

IREX Dissertation Research Fellowship (declined) 1998-1999

Fulbright-Hays Grant, Moscow International University, Russia Spring 1998

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Polish Language 1995-1996

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Polish Language Summer 1995

Indiana University, Bloomington

Otto Graf Undergraduate Research Opportunities Fellowship, University of Michigan 1991-1992

University of Michigan Alumni Association Scholarship 1990-1994

Honors and Awards

Visiting Scholar, George Washington University Institute for Global and International 2011

Studies, Summer 2011.

Chadwick Alger Book Prize, International Studies Association 2009

Harold D. Lasswell Prize, Society of Policy Scientists 2009

Fellow, American Assembly Next Generation Project 2007, 2010, 2011

Silver Anniversary Chancellor’s Teaching Award, University of Kansas 2006

J. Michael Young Academic Advisor Award, University of Kansas 2004

Honorary Research Fellow, Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin 2000-2001

Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin Department of Political Science Spring 1997

Phi Beta Kappa, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Spring 1993

Selected Invited Presentations

“….” University of Sussex, United Kingdom, December 2015.

“……” Northwestern University

“The Rise of Chinese Development Financing,” Presentation to the U.S. State Department Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, ? June 2015.

“The Rise of Chinese Development Financing,” Presentation to the U.S. National Intelligence Council, 1 May 2015.

“Open Aid: Cui Bono?” Presentation to the University of Ottawa, March 2015

“…..” Presentation to (Len and Ole Jacob’s workshop)

“Open Data for Peace: Mapping Conflict and Aid in Africa and Asia.” Lightning talk for the United States Institute for Peace, PeaceTech Summit: Engineering Durable Peace. Washington, DC, 19 September 2014.

“Global Economic Governance: Powers, Players, and Paradigms.” Presentation at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, February 2014.

“Open Aid Mapping: the Case of Malawi.” Presentation to the Open Aid Partnership, World Bank Institute, Washington, D.C, 25 October 2013.

“Dynamic Visualization of Climate Change, Conflict and Aid in Africa,” Presentation at GIS for the United Nations and International Development Community, New York, NY, 11 October 2013.

“Theorizing IO Culture,” Paper presented at the Workshop on The Culture of International Organizations, Northwestern University, April 2012.

“Open Development: Transparency and the Politics of Aid Data.” Presented at Oxford University, January 2012.

“Geomapping Aid in Africa.” Presented at the Conference on Putting Aid Data to Work: From Better Information to Practical Results, 4 November 2011, World Bank, Washington, D.C..

“Tracking Climate Aid: Innovations in Coding and Mapping Methodology” Presented at the CCAPS Workshop on Tracking Aid for Climate Change, 3 November 2011, Development Gateway, Washington, D.C..

“IPE’s Faultlines” and “The State of International Relations.” Invited presentations at the Institute of International Relations (IIR), National Cheng-Chi Univ (NCCU), Taipei, Taiwan, and National Chung Hsing Univ (NCHU), Taichung, Taiwan. October 2011.

“Tracking Development Aid: Innovations in Data Visualization and Prospects for Tracking Aid for Climate Change Adaptation.” Presentation at the U.S. State Department Tech@State event, 23 September 2011.

“On Pragmatism and Being Useful.” IGIS Workshop on Pragmatism and IR, George Washington University, May 2011.

“Between the Covers: How IR Looks in the Books.” Presentation at George Washington University Institute for Global and International Studies, April 2011.

“Past the Tipping Point? Norms Dynamics in International Aid Transparency.” Presentation to the PIPES Seminar, University of Chicago, April 2011.

“From Crisis to Change: Reforming the IMF and World Bank” (with Jeff Chwieroth). Second annual workshop of the Alliance on Governance Research and Analysis, Brisbane, Australia, January 2011.