David Art 44 Winthrop St. Medford MA, 02155 david.art@tufts.edu EDUCATION 1997-2004 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D. in Political Science, June 2004 Fields: Comparative Politics, Political Economy, International Relations 1996-1997 Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria German language study 1995-1996 Oxford University, St. Edmund Hall Read Russian and East European History as Yale s Henry Fellow 1991-1995 Yale University B.A. in History, Distinction in the Major Summa Cum Laude Phi Beta Kappa ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT 2010- Tufts University Associate Professor of Political Science 2006-2010 Tufts University Assistant Professor of Political Science 2004-2006 College of the Holy Cross Assistant Professor of Political Science RESEARCH INTERESTS Authoritarianism and Democracy, European Politics, Political Extremism, Political Parties, German Politics, Politics of Memory, Research Methods in Comparative Politics PUBLICATIONS Books Inside the Radical Right: The Development of Anti-Immigrant Parties in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Journal Articles (* denotes peer reviewed, ** denotes invited) * The German Rescue of the Eurozone: How Germany is Getting the Europe it Always Wanted, Political Science Quarterly, forthcoming. ** The Containment of the European Radical Right: A Response to Carvalho, Ethnic and Racial Studies Review (March 2015). ** Par for the Course: Anti-EU parties and the European Elections of 2014, European Politics and Society, APSA newsletter special forum on the Far Right (Winter 2014). ** The Radical Right and the Sovereign Debt Crisis, Brown Journal of World Affairs (Summer 2013). ** Why 2012 is not 1933: The Radical Right in Contemporary Europe, Current History (March 2013). * What Do We Know About Authoritarianism After Ten Years? Comparative Politics 44, No. 2 (April 2012). * Wilders versus Fortuyn: An Agency Approach to Populist Party Building, (with Sarah de Lange) West European Politics (November 2011). * The Organizational Origins of the Contemporary Radical Right: The Case of Belgium. Comparative Politics 40, No.4 (July 2008). ** Using the Past in the Nazi Successor States From 1945 to the Present. (with Jenny Wüstenberg). Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 617 (May 2008). * Reacting to the Radical Right: Lessons from Germany and Austria, Party Politics 13, No. 3 (May 2007). Reprinted in Sage Library of Political Science: Political Extremism, edited by Cas Mudde (Sage Publications, 2013) * The Wild, Wild East: Why the DVU Doesn t Matter but the NPD Does. German Politics and Society 22 (Winter 2004). Book Chapters, Book Reviews, and Other Publications Making Room for November 9, 1989? The Fall of the Berlin Wall in German Politics
and Memory, in Twenty Years After Communism: The Politics of Memory and Commemoration, edited by Michael Bernhard and Jan Kubik (Oxford University Press, 2014). Germany, in Case Studies in Comparative Politics, edited by David Samuels (Pearson/Longman and Co, 2012). Memory Politics in Western Europe, in The Extreme Right in Europe: Current Trends and Perspectives, edited by Uwe Backes and Patrick Moreau (Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2011). Review of Simon Bornschier, Cleavage Politics and the Populist Right, Political Science Quarterly (2011). What to Read on Fascism, published online for Foreign Affairs (January 2010). Review of Paul Hainsworth, The Extreme Right in Western Europe, Party Politics 16 (2010). Review of Maja Zehfuss, Wounds of Memory: The Politics of War in Germany, Perspectives on Politics, December 2009. The Radical Right in Western Europe: Explaining Success and Failure. European Studies Forum 38:2 (2008). Review of Daniel Ziblatt, Structuring the State in Comparative Political Studies, April 2007. Review of Peter Merkl and Leonard Weinberg (eds.), Right-Wing Extremism in the Twenty-First Century in German Politics and Society, Spring 2007. Review of Pippa Norris, Radical Right in Journal of Politics, February 2007. Review of Terri Givens, Voting Radical Right in Western Europe in German Politics and Society, Summer 2006. Work Under Review or In Progress The Endurance of Authoritarianism in Western Europe, 1848-1914, book manuscript in progress (expected to submit to either Cambridge or Oxford University Press in early 2016). Conclusion, in Paul Goode and Ariel Ahram, eds. Researching Authoritarianism in the Discipline of Democracy, Revised and Resubmitted to Oxford University Press.
Membership Matters: Radical Right Party Composition (with Ben Ansell), under review. Talking About a Revolution: How (Most of) the West Did Not Extend the Franchise, under review. The Study of Coercive Institutions Under Authoritarianism (with Sheena Greitens). ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2014 Tufts Faculty Research Award (competitive internal semester research award for book project on Authoritarianism in Europe) 2012 Lerman-Neubauer Award, Tufts University ( Awarded annually to a faculty member who has had a profound intellectual impact on his/her students, both in and out of the classroom ) 2011 Best Paper for the European Politics section of APSA ( Membership Matters: Radical Right Party Composition, with Ben Ansell) 2008 Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship, European University Institute 2005 Nominated for the Gabriel Almond Dissertation Award (APSA) 2004 Lucian Pye Award for best dissertation in political science, Department of Political Science, MIT 2001-2002 German Academic Exchange (DAAD) Dissertation Research Grant (research in Germany) 2000-2001 Harvard Center for European Studies Dissertation Research Grant (research in Austria) 1998-2000 Department of Political Science Graduate Fellowship, MIT 1997-1998 Ithiel de Sola Pool Fellow, MIT (awarded to an outstanding incoming Ph.D. student) 1995-1996 Henry Fellow, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University (fellowship awarded to one graduating senior from Yale and Harvard for one year of study at Oxford or Cambridge) 1995 Fulbright Fellow, Kings College London (declined) 1991-1995 National Merit Scholar PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES American Political Science Association (APSA) Member, 2003 Organized Section Memberships: Comparative Politics, European Politics, Comparative Democratization Chair of Dissertation Prize Committee for the European Politics section of APSA, 2011.
Editor of European Politics and Society Newsletter (APSA), 2015-2018. European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Member, 2006-2006-2013 Co-Chair of the Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy. With over 700 members, this section was one of the ECPR s most active during my tenure. The revamped newsletter has attracted a relatively wide readership. Council of European Studies (CES) Member, 2002- Program Committee for the Annual Meeting in Boston MA, March 2012. American Sociological Association (ASA) Member, 2011- Harvard Center for European Studies Faculty Affiliate, 2004- JOURNAL SERVICE Editorial Board, Comparative Political Studies, 2013- Reviewer: Acta Politica, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, British Scholar, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, European Journal of Political Research, European Political Science Review, German Politics, German Politics and Society, Government and Opposition, International Organization, International Studies Perspectives, Journal of International Relations and Development, Journal of Political Ideologies, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Party Politics, Political Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, West European Politics, Scandinavian Political Studies, Societies, The Sociological Quarterly, World Politics. GRANT REVIEWER Austrian Science Fund, Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Dutch Science Foundation, European Social Research Council, Swiss Social Science Foundation. SECONDARY SCHOOL ENGAGEMENT
The Future of the European Union, Part of a Teach Europe symposium organized by David Cameron, Yale University, March 2014. The Transatlantic Relationship, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and University of Massachusetts Boston, July 22, 2010. NOTABLE MEDIA APPEARANCES/MENTIONS Al Jazeera America (Live TV), May 5, 2014 PBS Newshour, July 25, 2011 The Economist, Germany s Nazi Diplomats, October 30 th, 2010. TUFTS SERVICE University level 2012- Active Participant in Discussion of T 10 (University Strategic Planning Document) 2012- Steering Committee, University Initiative on Mass Atrocities and Genocide (IMAGe) 2008- Phi Beta Kappa, Tufts Chapter, Executive Committee and Treasurer 2006- International Relations Program (Largest major on campus and inherently interdisciplinary) Executive Committee: 2010- Curriculum Committee: 2006- Ad-Hoc committee for preparation for External Review: 2013 2011- Search Committee for Director of Tisch Library 2010-2012 Facilities Committee Training Programs (invited) 2013- ALD (Academic Leadership Development Program at Tufts), six-week session 2006- CELT (Center for Learning and Teaching), six-week session. 2010- Search Committee for Junior Position in Comparative Politics Department of Political Science 2011- Chair, Search Committee for Political Economy 2007 Search Committee for American Politics 2006 Search Committee for Comparative Politics
COURSES OFFERED Introduction to Comparative Politics Introduction to International Relations (last offered at Holy Cross, 2006) Political Economy of Advanced Industrial Societies Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe European Integration Authoritarianism in Comparative Perspective (graduate) Survey of Social Science Research Methods (graduate/undergraduate) Field Seminar in Comparative Politics (graduate) LANGUAGES German French Italian Russian (near fluent) (proficient) (proficient) (intermediate) RECENT INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES The Far Right and the EU Parliament Elections, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, May 6, 2014. Rise of the Far Right in Europe? World Affairs Council, Houston, April 3, 2014. The Far Right in Europe: The Case of Golden Dawn in Greece, Yale University, Hellenic Studies Association, February 28, 2014 Why Liberal Italy got the Democracy it Deserved, Harvard University, Conference on Electoral Corruption, November 1-2, 2014. Roundtable on the German Elections, Harvard Center for European Studies, September 19, 2013. Political Extremism in Postwar Germany, Washington and Lee University School of Law, September 27, 2013. Competitive Authoritarianism and Democracy s First Wave: The Case of the French Second Empire, American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 1, 2013. How Germany is Building the Europe it Wants, Cornell University, September 30, 2012. Talking About A Revolution: How (Most of) the West did not Extend the Franchise,
American Political Science Association, New Orleans September 1, 2012 (conference cancelled due to Hurricane Isaac) Why 2012 is not 1933, University of Minnesota, April 19, 2012. How German is It? Angela Merkel and the Sovereign Debt Crisis, Conference of the European Studies Association, Boston MA, March 23, 2012. Why 2012 is not 1933: The European Sovereign Debt Crisis in Historical Perspective, Conference on Nationalism in Europe, EU Center of Excellence at the University of Miami and Florida International University, March 8, 2012. Inside the Radical Right, University of California, Los Angeles, February 2, 2011. Coercive Institutions Under Dictatorship: A Research Agenda, American Political Science Association, Seattle, September 4, 2011. The Future of the EURO, Tufts European Center, Tailloires, June 26, 2011. Roundtable on Recent Books on the Right (Inside the Radical Right one of three featured books), Conference of Europeanists, Barcelona, June 22, 2011. Inside the Radical Right, University of Connecticut, Alan R. Bennet Lecture Series, April 4, 2011. Making Room for November 9, 1989? The Fall of the Berlin Wall in German Politics and Memory. Paper prepared for conference Twenty Years After: 1989 and the Politics of Memory. Michael Bernhard and Jan Kubik, organizers. University of Florida, Center for European Studies, February 4-6. Radical Right Candidate Quality (with Ben Ansell), American Political Science Association, Washington DC, September 2, 2010. The Radical Right in Europe: Explaining Success and Failure. Conference on New- Right Wing Radicalism: A Transatlantic Perspective, Center for German and European Studies, Brandeis University, April 28, 2010. Inside the Radical Right, Conference on the Extreme Right, University of Strasbourg, November 14-16, 2009. Participant in Roundtable Understanding Political Extremism, American Political Science Association, Toronto, September 5, 2009. Inside the Radical Right, Department of Political Science, University of Lucca (Italy), June 25, 2009.
Commentator, Conference on Anti-Semitism in Central and Eastern Europe, University College London, June 18-19, 2009. Commentator, Conference on Globalization and Politics held in honor of Professor Suzanne Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 8-9, 2009. Varieties of Extremism in Western Europe, Opening Address to the Karlsruhe Dialogues on Extremism, Karlsruhe (Germany), February 7 2009. The Politics of the Past in Western Europe, Conference on Democracy and Extremism, Georgia State University, Atlanta, June 11-13, 2008. Commentator, Panel on Democratization in 19 th Century Europe, Biannual Conference of the Council of European Studies, Chicago, March 7, 2008. The Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Orleans, November 13, 2007. The History of the German Radical Right, Center for German and European Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 19, 2007. Chair/ Discussant on panel The Radical Right in Europe American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 30, 2007 Chair/Discussant on panel The Politics of Demarcation, American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 30, 2007. Chair/Discussant on panel Muslims in Europe, New England Political Science Association, Boston, April 22, 2007. How Radical Right Parties Organize, MIT Identity Politics Workshop, April 13, 2007. Memory Politics in Western Europe, International Studies Association, Chicago, February 28, 2007. The Organizational Origins of the Radical Right: The Case of Belgium, University of Antwerp, October 6, 2006. The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria, Roundtable on Recent Books, German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, September 28-October 1, 2006. The European Radical Right in Comparative-Historical Perspective, American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 31-September 3, 2006. The Regeneration of the Far Right in Postwar Italy, American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., September 1-4, 2005
The Politics of the Past in Western Europe, New England Political Science Association, Portland ME, April 29, 2005 Reacting to the Radical Right: Lessons from Germany and Austria, New England Political Science Association, Portland ME, April 29, 2005 Making or Breaking the Far Right in Central and Eastern Europe, Midwest Political Science Association, April 7-10, 2005 (with Dana Brown) Co-optation or Legitimation? Mainstream Parties React to Far Right Challengers, Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, MA, November 13, 2004 (with Chris Wendt)