KRISTIN A. McKIE St. Lawrence University 23 Romoda Drive Canton, NY 13617 607.316.2026 kmckie@stlawu.edu ACADEMIC POSITIONS St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY Assistant Professor Department of Government and African Studies Program (Joint appointment) 2012- present University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN 2015-2016 Visiting Fellow Kellogg Institute for International Studies Yale University, New Haven, CT 2011-2012 Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer The MacMillan Center for International & Area Studies and Department of Political Science EDUCATION Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Ph.D., Department of Government 2011 Dissertation: Reining In the Big Men: The Politics of Executive Constraints Across Sub-Saharan Africa M.A., Department of Government 2008 Major Field: Comparative Politics, Minor Field: International Relations Haverford College, Haverford, PA 2002 B.A. with Honors in Political Science (major), Peace and Conflict Studies (minor) Thesis: Second Chances: Theoretical Explanations of (Re)Democratization in Nepal Cornell-Nepal Study Program, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal 2001 Independent Field Research Project: The Effects of Community Forrest User Group Participation on Democratic Knowledge and Attitudes in Syangja District, Nepal PUBLICATIONS McKie, Kristin. (Forthcoming). Presidential Term Limit Contravention: Abolish, Extend, Fail or Respect? Comparative Political Studies. McKie, Kristin. (Forthcoming 2019). International Donor Funding and Social Movement Demobilization: The Barabaig Land Rights Movement in Tanzania. Africa Today, Vol. 65, No.4 (Summer). 1
McKie, Kristin. (2017). The Politics of Institutional Choice Across Sub-Saharan Africa: Presidential Term Limits. Studies in Comparative International Development. 52(4): 436 456. doi: 10.1007/s12116-017- 9252-z McKie, Kristin. (2017). Comparative Continuismo: Presidential Term Limit Contravention across Developing Democracies. Kellogg Institute Working Paper #425 (peer reviewed), University of Notre Dame. McKie, Kristin and Nicolas van de Walle. (2010). Towards an Accountable Budget Process in Sub Saharan Africa: Problems and Prospects. Social Research, Vol. 77, No.4 (Winter): 1281-1310 WORK IN PROGRESS The Politics of Presidential Term Limits Across Africa Book manuscript under preparation for submission to university presses Codifying Legal Pluralism in Kenya: Prospects and Pitfalls of Mainstreaming Customary Justice Systems In progress FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS and AWARDS Scholarly Development Award, St. Lawrence University. For research in Kenya. $700. 2017 Visiting Fellow, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame 2015-2016 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/SLU Crossing Boundaries Grant for 2013 Francophone West Africa in Transnational Perspective (with Judith DeGroat (SLU History) and Eloise Brezault (SLU French/African Studies). $11,000. Nominated for the Juan Linz Prize for the Best Dissertation in the Comparative 2012 Study of Democracy, American Political Science Association Dean s Prize for Distinguished Teaching, Cornell University, College of Arts & Sciences 2011 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship, $18,000 2010-2011 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant 2007-2008 For dissertation research in Uganda and Zambia. Grant # 0720148, $12,000. LaFeber Research Grant 2007-2008 For research on the outcomes of participatory development planning vs. central government planning in the education sector in Uganda. With Devra Moehler. $7,500 U.S. Dept of Education Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship 2006-2007 2
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES and INVITED PRESENTATIONS Codifying Legal Pluralism in Kenya: Prospects and Pitfalls of Mainstreaming Traditional Justice Systems African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, December 2018 Authors Meet Critics: Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective Roundtable American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, August 2018 Donor Funding and Social Movement Demobilization: The Barabaig Land Rights Movement in Tanzania American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, September 2016 Comparative Continuismo: Explaining Executive Term Limit Adherence across Regions Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame. December 10, 2015. How to be a President for Life: Tampering with Term Limits across Sub-Saharan Africa Department of Political Science, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY April 4, 2017 Young Academic Alumni Lecture Series, Haverford College, Haverford, PA April 12, 2016 Faculty Café (invited research presentation), St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, April 3, 2015 Testing Term Limits: Executive Tenure Rule Enforcement in Developing Democracies American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 2015 International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, March 28, 2014 Uncertain Incumbents: Politics of Executive Term Limit Adoption Across Sub-Saharan Africa African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, November 21-24, 2013 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 2013 How to be a President for Life: Party Competition and Executive Term Limit Enforcement across Sub-Saharan Africa." American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 2013 African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 29- December 1, 2012 Constraining the Big Men: The Politics of Term Limit Adherence Across Sub-Saharan Africa Yale Comparative Politics Workshop, Yale University, November 29, 2011 Institute for African Development Seminar Series, Cornell University, November 17, 2011 Uncertain Incumbents: Constraining Executive Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa Ruling Politics: The Formal and Informal Foundations of Power in New Democracies, Workshop I- Harvard University, Nov 21-22, 2011; Workshop II- University of Chicago, May 3-4, 2013 Mechanisms of Accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa: Pitfalls & Prospects in the Budget Process Conference: From Impunity to Accountability: Africa's Development in the 21st Century, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY, November 2010 A video of my presentation can be viewed at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vozbws3rhuq Uncertainty Rules: Electoral Uncertainty and Limits on Executive Power in Sub-Saharan Africa American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, September 2010 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2010 3
Uncertain Incumbents: The Politics of Term Limit Adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa Research Frontiers in African Politics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, January 2010 The Politics of Adopting and Contravening Term Limits in Sub-Saharan Africa American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, August 2008 Donor Funding and Social Movement Decline: Barabaig Land Rights Movement in Tanzania Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2007 Panel Discussant or Chair American Political Science Association Annual Meeting Discussant: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 (Invited Roundtable) Chair: 2014, 2016, 2018 African Studies Association Annual Meeting Discussant: 2014, 2015, 2017 Chair: 2015, 2017 Midwest Political Science Association Meeting Chair & Discussant: 2016 Conferences Organized Oxford University Press Forum on Food, Politics and Society, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, October 2009 Co-Organizer (with Professor Ron Herring, Government Department, Cornell University) U.S. GOVERNMENT & THINK TANK INVITED PRESENTATIONS The state of democracy in Africa panel participant Brookings Institution, September 20, 2018 Addressing famine, peacekeeping, and insecurity in Africa panel participant Brookings Institution, May 19, 2017 The State of Africa s Great Lakes Region panel participant Brookings Institution, November 6, 2015 Africa Regional Seminar: Elections in sub-saharan Africa: Implications for Regional Stability. Academy for Defense Intelligence, U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC, April 15, 2015 Executive Analytic Exchange on Presidential Term Limits in Africa Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, March 13, 2015 4
TEACHING EXPERIENCE St. Lawrence University, Dept. of Government & African Studies Program 2012-present GOVT 105: Introduction to Comparative Politics (including Writing Intensive sections) GOVT/AFS 230: African Politics GOVT/AFS 291: Foreign Aid (Research Methods Seminar) GOVT/AFS 328: Political Institutions in the Developing World AFS/GOVT 3036: Alternative Justice Systems around the World (Sophomore Seminar) FRPG 1051: Representations of Africa: Myth and Reality (First Year Program Seminar) Yale University, Department of Political Science 2012 PLCS 418- Political Institutions: Sub-Saharan Africa in Comparative Perspective (Spring 2012) Cornell University, Department of Government 2009 GOVT 1011.1- Governance in Africa: Trends and Trajectories (Spring 2009) A first-year intensive writing seminar; self-designed syllabus THESIS and RESEARCH MENTORSHIP SYE 489/497 supervisor: Annie Wilcox (2016) Katy Litka (2014-2015) Kate Brown (2014-2015) GOVT 379 Internship supervisor: Jerome Saliba (2018) Research assistant mentor: Kelly Sampier (2013-2014) Ndirangu Warugongo (2017-2018) UNIVERSITY and PROFESSIONAL SERVICE St. Lawrence University African Studies Program Kenya Semester Program On-Campus Coordinator and Orientation leader, 2018- present Brookings Institution African Security Initiative Grant Proposal Committee, 2018 Member, African Studies Program Board, 2012- preset Selection Committee, Kenya Semester Program, 2013-present Library Liaison, 2017-present Member, African Politics Visiting Assistant Professor, Search Committee, 2015 AFS tenure/midpro consensus letter committee for three colleagues 5
Government Department Moving Up Day Award presenter, 2018 Library Liaison, 2017-present American Politics (REP) Search Committee Member, 2016 Admissions Liaison, Government Department, 2013-2015 Member, African Politics Visiting Assistant Professor, Search Committee, 2015 Interviewer (at APSA), American Politics (Judicial) Search Committee, 2015 Member, Pi Sigma Alpha Best Paper Award Committee, 2014, 2015 Advisor, Pi Sigma Alpha Undergraduate Political Science Honor Society, 2014 GOVT tenure consensus letter committee for three colleagues University Scholarships, Fellowships and Grants Committee member, 2017- present Institutional Strategy and Assessment Committee member, 2013-2015 Staffing Committee member, 2014 Carnegie Junior Fellow application review for Career Connections, 2018 Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN), faculty observer, 2018 PhDinner participant- Office of Laurentian Engagement event with SLU Alumni, September 2018 First Year Program participant, 2017 Peer Mentoring Workshop- Applying for Grants, invited by Assoc. Dean to be a presenter, 2016 Global Studies SYE thesis defense committee member, 2014 First Year Faculty Orientation, invited speaker, 2013 Canton Community SOAR instructor, Fall 2018 Cornell University, Government Department Teaching Assistant Trainer and Professionalization Workshop Series Co-Facilitator, 2008-2011 Reviewer American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Democratization, African Studies Review, African Affairs ADDITIONAL TRAINING Oral Communication Institute, St. Lawrence University, August 2017 First Year Program Training Retreat, St. Lawrence University, May-August 2017 6
Pedagogy Training, May College and Winter Institute, St. Lawrence University, 2012-2018 Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research, Ithaca, NY, March 2010 Data Analysis Workshop Writing 7100: Teaching Writing, Cornell University, Fall 2008 A six-week course on the pedagogy of teaching college-level writing in a disciplinary context Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR), Tempe, AZ, January 2007 RELEVANT CONSULTING and WORK EXPERIENCE United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Kampala, Uganda 2007-2008 Consultant- Assisted in the develop of a randomized controlled experimental design for the USAID Linkages project in Uganda. Initiative funded by the National Academy of Sciences Counterterrorism Section, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC 2002-2004 Paralegal Specialist, Outstanding Scholar Program- Assisted attorneys with case development, liaised with colleagues at the CIA, State Dept. and FBI to (re)designate foreign terrorist organizations, monitor incoming intelligence cables. TS/SCI security clearance. Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) Philadelphia, PA, 2000 Research Assistant for Professor Alvin Z. Rubinstein, University of Pennsylvania Editorial Assistant for Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Political Science Association African Studies Association African Politics Conference Group RESEARCH SKILLS and EXPERIENCE Field work Experience: Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Nepal Research Methods: Cross-country comparative case analysis, structured and semi-structured interviews, process-tracing, archival work, statistical analysis (STATA) Geographic Information Systems-GIS (ESRI/ArcGIS) Languages: Swahili (rudimentary), French (intermediate reading; basic speaking), Nepali (basic), 7