CURRICULUM VITAE Thomas V. Maher July 2014 Messages: (614) 292-6681 E-mail: maher.74@osu.edu 238 Townshend Hall 1885 Neil Ave. Mall Columbus, OH 43210 ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2014 Lecturer,, Research Affiliate, Mershon Center for International Security, 2013 Form-Huber Teaching Fellow,, EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Ph.D., 2013, Sociology,. Dissertation Title: Chaos, Coercion, and Resistance; An Organizational Analysis of the Nazi Concentration Camps. Committee: J. Craig Jenkins and Vincent Roscigno (co-chairs) & Andrew Martin M.A., 2007, Sociology, The ; Thesis Title: In the Shadow of the Smoke Stacks; Total Threat, Resistance, & Mobilization in Auschwitz, Sobibór, and Treblinka. Committee: J. Craig Jenkins (chair), Vincent Roscigno, & Katherine Meyer B.A., 2005, Sociology & History, Purdue University Honors Recognition in Sociology Research Interests Social Movements & Collective Action Contentious Politics Historical Sociology Event Data Analysis Additional Teaching Interests Global Stratification & Development Genocide & Collective Violence Sociological Methods Complex Organizations Political Sociology Mixed Methodology Culture and Identity Deviance Social Theory Social Change AWARDS & FINANCIAL SUPPORT 2010 Presidential Fellowship ($21,600) 2010 Ohio State Outstanding Doctoral Student Award 2010 Ohio State Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship Award ($1965)
2010 Graduate Associate Teaching Award Nominee 2009 Graduate Student Paper Award Honorable Mention, Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. For paper entitled Threat, Resistance, & Mobilization: The Cases of Auschwitz, Sobibor, and Treblinka. 2008 Graduate Associate Teaching Award Nominee 2007 Ohio State Sociology Graduate Student Association Best Teaching Associate Award 2007 NSF Small Grant: Research on Dissent and Repression in the Middle East. 2005 Greater Lafayette Volunteer Board Community Service Excellence Award. PUBLICATIONS: Jenkins, J. Craig, Thomas V. Maher, & Chuck Fahrer. 2014. Seedbeds of Insurgency: Structure and Dynamics in the Egyptian Islamist Insurgency, 1986-1999. Journal of Peace Research. 51(4):470-486. Einwohner, Rachel L. and Thomas V. Maher. 2011. Threat Assessment and Collective-Action Emergence: Death-Camp and Ghetto Resistance during the Holocaust Mobilization 16(2):127-146. Maher, Thomas V. 2010. Threat, Resistance, & Mobilization: The Cases of Auschwitz, Sobibór, and Treblinka. American Sociological Review 75(2):252-72. Maher, Thomas V. and Lindsey Peterson. 2008. Time and Country Variation in Contentious Politics; Multi-Level Modeling of Dissent and Repression International Journal of Sociology 38(3):58-81. DATASETS: J. Craig Jenkins, Charles Lewis Taylor, Marianne Abbott, Thomas V. Maher, and Lindsey Peterson. 2012. The World Handbook of Political Indicators IV. Columbus, OH: Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The. https://sociology.osu.edu/worldhandbook UNDER REVIEW: Maher, Thomas V. and J. Craig Jenkins Getting Attention: What Gets Into International Newswire PAPERS IN PROGRESS: Maher, Thomas V. Bureaucratic Organizations, Chaos, and Surveillance; The Case of the Nineteen Nazi Concentration Camps. Jenkins, J. Craig, Charles Taylor, Marianne Abbott, Thomas V. Maher, and Lindsey P. Peterson. Global Conflict Data: Introducing the World Handbook of Political Indicators IV
Maher, Thomas V., Lisa M. Williams, Andrew Martin, & John McCarthy. Whither Civil Rights Protest? Towards an Empirical Model of Protest Demobilization. Maher, Thomas V. Emerging Chaos; An Institutional Analysis of Rules, Hierarchy, and Ethnicity in the Nazi Concentration Camp System. Maher, Thomas V. Threat, Institutional Roles, and Organizational Infrastructure; A QCA Analysis of Organized Resistance in Nineteen Nazi Concentration Camps. Maher, Thomas V., and Rachel L. Einwohner. Social Scientific Approaches to the Study of the Holocaust: Lessons from the Study of Jewish Resistance. Peterson, Lindsey, J. Craig Jenkins, Thomas V. Maher, and Katherine Meyer. The Politics of Dissent and Repression; How Regimes Shape Conflict and Contention Cycles BOOK REVIEWS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS: 2009 Jenkins, J. Craig and Thomas V. Maher. The Gordian Knot: The Israel/Palestine Peace Dilemma. Dissent. http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online.php?id=249 2008 Maher, Thomas V. Waves of Protest; Popular Struggle in El Salvador, 1925-2005. by Paul D. Almeida (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press). Mobilization, 13(3):341-42. PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS: Maher, Thomas V. 2013. Threat, Institutional Roles, and Organizational Infrastructure; A QCA Analysis of Organized Resistance in Nineteen Nazi Concentration Camps. American Sociological Association, New York City NY, August 10-13. Maher, Thomas V. and J. Craig Jenkins Getting Attention: What Gets Into International Newswire International Studies Association Pre-Conference Workshop on Event Data, San Francisco CA, April 2. Maher, Thomas V. 2013. Emerging Chaos; An Institutional Analysis of Rules, Hierarchy, and Ethnicity in the Nazi Concentration Camp System. Midwestern Sociological Society, Chicago IL, March 27-30. Maher, Thomas V. 2012. Multiple Methods of Coercion; A QCA Analysis of Organizational Characteristics and Mortality Rates in Nineteen Concentration Camps. American Sociological Association, Denver CO, August 17-20. Maher, Thomas V. 2011. Resistance, Organizations, and Control: A Comparative Analysis of 19 Nazi Concentration Camps. Collective Behavior and Social Movements Workshop at University Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas NV, August 18-19. Jenkins, J. Craig, Thomas V. Maher, & Chuck Fahrer. 2009. The Roots of Islamic Insurgency: Egypt 1986-1999. American Sociological Association, San Francisco CA, August 8-12.
Maher, Thomas V., Lisa M. Williams, Andrew Martin, & John McCarthy. 2009. Whither the Civil Rights Movement? Toward an Empirical Model of Social Movement Decline. American Sociological Association, San Francisco CA, August 8-12. Einwohner, Rachel L. and Thomas V. Maher. 2009. Assessments of Threat and Collective Action: Jewish Resistance in the Ghettos and Death Camps during the Holocaust. American Sociological Association, San Francisco CA, August 8-12. Maher, Thomas V. and Lindsey Peterson. 2008. "Contentious Politics in Context: A Multi-Level Analysis of the Effects of Country Characteristics on the Dissent-Repression Nexus." American Sociological Association, Boston MA, August 1-4. Maher, Thomas V. 2007. In the Shadow of the Smoke Stacks; Threat, Resistance, and Mobilization at Auschwitz, Sobibór, and Treblinka. American Sociological Association, New York NY, August 11-14. Maher, Thomas V. 2007. In the Shadow of the Smoke Stacks; Threat, Resistance, and Mobilization at Auschwitz, Sobibór, and Treblinka. Collective Behavior and Social Movements Workshop at Hofstra University, Hempstead NY, August 9-10. Maher, Thomas V. 2006. "In the Shadow of the Smoke Stacks; Threat, Abeyance and Resistance in the Concentration Camp at Sobibór. Midwest Sociological Society, Omaha NE, March 30. INVITED PRESENTATIONS Maher, Thomas V. and J. Craig Jenkins. 2014. Getting Attention: Comparing National and International News Coverage of Contention. Interdisciplinary Studies of Political Behavior: From Elections to Protests. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Columbus OH, May 6-7. Maher, Thomas V. 2014. Bureaucracy, Chaos, and Surveillance; An Organizational Analysis of Nineteen Nazi Concentration Camps Keene State University, Keene NH, April 14. Maher, Thomas V. 2013. Studying Resistance in the Nazi Concentration Camps Kenyon College, Gambier OH, November 12. Meyer, Katherine, J. Craig Jenkins, Lindsey Peterson, Lauren Pinkus, Tom Maher, Annie Price, & Carolyn Smith. 2007. Contentiousness in Context; Egypt, Israel/Palestine, Jordan, Kuwait, and Turkey. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Columbus OH, July 31. Meyer, Katherine, J. Craig Jenkins, Lindsey Peterson, Lauren Pinkus, Tom Maher, Annie Price, & Carolyn Smith. 2007. Dissent and Repression in the Middle East. The Ohio State University Collegium Fireside Chats, Columbus OH, January 24. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Independent Instructor Introduction to Sociology (Sociology 101),
-2007, 2014 Introduction to Sociological Theory (Sociology 3488), -2013-2014 Types of Sociological Inquiry (Sociology 3487), -2013 Contemporary World Societies; Social Institutions and Social Change, (Sociology 597.01), -2007-2010 Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2006-2007 TA Coordinator, Introduction to Sociology,, Ohio State University. 2005-2006 Types of Social Inquiry,,. 2005-2006 Introduction to Sociology,,. Graduate Research Assistant 2009-2013 for J. Craig Jenkins on World Handbook of Political Indicators, IV funded by The Mershon Center for International Security, & National Science Foundation. 2008-2010 for J. Craig Jenkins on The Development of Islamist Insurgency: Egypt 1986-1999 funded by The Mershon Center for International Security. 2005-2008 for Professor J. Craig Jenkins & Professor Katherine Meyer on "The Dissent/Repression Nexus in the Middle East," funded by National Science Foundation. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES & MEMBERSHIPS: 2011-2012 Faculty Recruitment Committee, Sociology Graduate Student Association. 2011 Co-organizer, Sociology Graduate Student Association Summer Conference 2010-2011 President, Sociology Graduate Student Association. 2009-2010 Vice President of Finance, Sociology Graduate Student Association. 2006-2008 Committee Member, Sociology Graduate Student Association. 2006-present Teaching in Sociology Working Group Member. 2009-present Political Economy Working Group Member. Member: American Sociological Association, 2005 to present. Occasional Reviewer for: American Sociological Review, Mobilization, Research in Social Movements, Conflict, and Change, Sociological Forum, Sociological Quarterly, Social Currents, and Social Science Research.
REFERENCES: Professor J. Craig Jenkins Professor Vincent Roscigno Columbus, Ohio 43210-1353 Columbus, Ohio 43210-1353 (614) 292-6681 (614) 292-6681 Associate Professor Rachel Einwohner Associate Professor Andrew Martin Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47906 Columbus, Ohio 43210-1353 (765) 494-4696 (614) 292-6681