Jeffrey W. Paller jpaller@usfca.edu http://jeffreywpaller.wordpress.com/ Academic Appointments University of San Francisco Assistant Professor of Politics, 2016- Earth Institute, Columbia University Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2015-16 Bates College Lecturer of Politics, 2014-15 Education Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Political Science, August 2014 M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Political Science, Spring 2009 B.A., Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Political Science (Honors), March 2006 Chilean Universities Program, Santiago, Chile, Study abroad Research Interests Comparative Politics, African Politics, Democratization, Field Research Methods, Public Goods Publications 2017. Defending the City, Defending Votes: Strategies of Political Mobilization in Urban Ghana. With Kathleen Klaus. Journal of Modern African Studies 55 (4): 681-708. 2017. From Urban Crisis to Political Opportunity: African Slums. Chapter in Africa Under Neoliberalism, edited by Nana Poku and Jim Whitman (Routledge Series on Contemporary African Politics) [non peer-reviewed]. 2017. The contentious politics of African urbanization. Current History. May 2017 [non peer-reviewed]. 2016. The informal practice of accountability in urban Africa. Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. 2015. Informal Networks and Access to Power to Obtain Housing in Urban Slums in Ghana. Africa Today 62 (1): 31-55. 2014. Informal Institutions and Personal Rule in Urban Ghana. African Studies Review 57 (3): 123-142. 2013. Political Struggle to Political Sting: A Theory of Democratic Disillusionment. Polity 45 (4): 580-603. Working Papers and Works in Progress Democracy in Ghana: Everyday Politics in Urban Africa. Book manuscript. Under Contract at Cambridge UP. Dignified public expression: A new logic of political accountability. Accepted for publication to Comparative Politics (minor revisions needed). Democratic Ruptures in Africa: Ghana s 2016 Election. With G. Bob-Milliar. Revised and Resubmitted. Building permanence: Fire outbreaks and emergent tenure security in a Ghanaian slum. Under review. Politics of Daily Life: Process, Networks, Spontaneity. IPSA Political Concepts Working Paper Series. Sharing, shame, and honor: Experimental evidence from urban Ghana.
Migration and Citizenship in urban Ghana. Research note: Conducting surveys in urban Africa. With Adrienne LeBas. Exit, voice, and loyalty: Contentious urbanization in Accra and Nairobi. With Jackie Klopp. Growing pains: Contentious urbanization in small cities across Ghana. With Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai. Towards Inclusive Cities: Strategies and Outcomes of Community Organizations across Latin America and Africa. With Maureen Donaghy. Policy and Other Papers Book review of The African Affairs Reader: Key Texts in Politics and International Relations. African Studies Review. December 2017. Introduction to Research Symposium: Africa in today s world. APSA Africa Workshop Newsletter. With George Bob-Milliar. The practice of accountability in Ghana s poor urban neighborhoods. CRASE Blog at USF. Introduction to Research Symposium: The politics of urbanization in Africa. APSA Africa Workshop Newsletter. With George Bob-Milliar. 7 things to understand about elections in Ghana. Africa Research Institute. With George Bob-Milliar. How to build better cities of tomorrow? It takes careful planning and political science research. Monkey Cage, Washington Post. How elites and corruption have played havoc with Nairobi s housing. The Conversation. With Jacqueline Klopp. Introduction to Research Symposium: The Politics of Higher Education in Africa. APSA Africa Workshop Newsletter. With George Bob-Milliar. Introduction to Research Symposium: Grassroots politics in African elections: A look at Tanzania, Cote d Ivoire, and Burkina Faso. APSA Africa Workshop Newsletter. With George Bob-Milliar. How Africa can build inclusive, safe and sustainable cities. The Conversation. With Jacqueline Klopp. Do public goods have to be public? Not in some African countries. Monkey Cage, Washington Post. With Danielle Carter Kushner and Lauren M. MacLean. Rising through cities? A look at Ghana. Africa Research Institute (June 9, 2015). What clean sewers tell us about development in African slums. Africa at LSE and Favelas at LSE. Political Accountability in Ghana: Evidence from Afrobarometer Round 5 Survey. Afrobarometer Briefing Paper No. 136 (March 2014). With Daniel Armah-Attoh and Edward Ampratwum. Five Simple Points to Take Away From the 2013 Kenyan Elections. African Arguments (March 9, 2013). Uncovering Informal Networks and Spontaneous Decision-Making: Field Research in African Slums. African Politics Conference Group Newsletter 9:1 (Feb 2013). [non peer-reviewed] Political Accountability in Ghanaian Slums: Evidence from the Grassroots. Ghana Center for Democratic Development Briefing Paper 11:1 (August 2012). [non peer-reviewed] Awards and Honors 2015 African Politics Conference Group-Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation in African Politics Award 2014 Bates Faculty Development Fund Award UW-Madison Vilas Research Travel Award Oxford Bibliographies Graduate Student Award 2013 Mellon Wisconsin Summer Fellowship Mildred Potter Hovland Journal Article Prize (University of Wisconsin) 2012 UW-Madison Vilas Research Travel Award National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant APSA Africa Workshops Fellow, Local Communities and the State, Gaborone, Botswana
2011 Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship Honored Instructor Award [Teaching], UW-Madison Housing 2010 Summer Initiative, Department of Political Science (University of Wisconsin): Kenya 2009 International Field Research Award (University of Wisconsin): Accra, Ghana Political Science Department TA Award (University of Wisconsin) 2008 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow: Akan-Twi 2006 Kenneth Janda Prize for best political science undergraduate honors thesis (Northwestern) 2005 Undergraduate Research Grant (Northwestern University): South Africa Field Research 2017 Kenya. Fieldwork for contentious urbanization project. 2017 Accra, Ghana. Fieldwork for contentious urbanization project. 2016 Accra, Ghana. Fieldwork for book manuscript. 2014 Kampala, Uganda. Fieldwork funded by APSA and UW-Madison Vilas Travel Award. 2013 Accra, Ghana. Household survey and public goods game funded by NSF. 2011-12 Accra, Ghana. Dissertation fieldwork funded by SSRC. 2010 Nairobi, Kenya. Pre-Dissertation fieldwork funded by UW-Madison (Political Science). 2009 Accra, Ghana. Pre-Dissertation fieldwork funded by UW-Madison. 2005 South Africa. Undergraduate Senior Thesis fieldwork. Teaching Experience UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO Assistant Professor, 2016- POLS 110: Introduction to Comparative Politics, Fall 2016 POLS 348: Introduction to African Politics and Development, Fall 2016 POLS 382: Politics of International Aid and Development, Spring 2017 POLS 260: Cities, Slums and Democracy, Spring 2017, 2018 POLS 342: Global Economic Justice, Fall 2017 POLS 395: Politics Lab, Spring 2018 BATES COLLEGE Lecturer, August 2014-15 PLTC 342: Cities, Slums and Democracy, Fall 2014 PLTC 165: Introduction to African Politics and Society, Fall 2014 PLTC 200: Democracy and Democratization, Spring 2015 PLTC 206: Politics of Development in Africa, Spring 2015 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON Teaching Assistant, September 2007-2014 Invited Talks 2018 University of California, Berkeley. The organization of civic life. African studies seminar. 2017 U of Florida. Baraza Lecture Series. Center for African Studies. University of Gothenburg (Sweden), Program on Governance and Local Development. 2016 University of San Francisco, Critical dialogue on peaceful African Elections. Stanford University, Deliberative democracy in Ghana. Discussant. University of California, Berkeley. City under siege. African studies seminar.
Duke University. Accountability in Unexpected Places. Conference on urban poverty. Columbia University. Book Workshop: Accountability in Unexpected Places. Center for Democratic Development-Ghana. Who really governs urban Ghana? Columbia University. Accountability in unexpected places. Sustainable Devt. seminar. Earth Institute. Accountability in unexpected places. Sustainable Development Colloquium. Northwestern University. Accountability in unexpected places. Elmhurst College. Accountability in unexpected places. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Housing in African Slums. Africa Research Institute (UK). Who really governs urban Ghana? Sheffield University (UK). City under siege. Back to the Urban Future Conference. 2015 American University. City under siege. Conference on Methodological Innovation in Urban Research in the Developing World. October 29-30. Free University, Berlin. Eviction as Opportunity: Clientelism and the Persistence of Informality in Ghanaian Slums. Workshop on Transnationalizing Clientelism: External Actors and Informality in Areas of Limited Statehood. June 19-20. City College of NY. The Everyday Practice of Accountability in African Slums. March19. Bates College. Sharing, Shame, and Honor: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Ghana, Lunches on Causal Inference (LOCI). February 27. 2014 Boston University. Shame and Honor: The Everyday Practice of Accountability in African Democracies, African Studies Center, October 29. Kampala, Uganda. Politics of Non-State Provision Writing and Methods Workshop. 2012 Center for Democratic Development Ghana. Political Accountability in Ghanaian Slums: Evidence from the Grassroots. Roundtable Discussion. August 16. 2010 University of Wisconsin-Madison. Political Philosophy Colloquium. April 16. Conferences American Political Science Association 2017: Towards Inclusive Cities With Maureen Donaghy. 2016: City under siege. 2015: Comparative approaches to the city. Comparative Urban Politics short course. 2015: Whose city is it anyway? Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ghana. 2014: Shame and Honor: The Everyday Practice of Accountability in African Democracies. 2013: Leadership and Political Accountability in African Slums. 2013: Ethnography as Empirical Strategy: Process, Networks, and Spontaneity. African Studies Association 2017: Contentious urbanization in Africa. At European Conference on African Studies. 2016: Politics of daily life: Process, networks, spontaneity. 2015: Strategies of Political Mobilization in Urban Ghana. 2014: The Everyday Practice of Accountability in Urban Ghana. 2013: Networks and the Politics of Access: Affordable Housing in Urban Africa. 2009: Deepening Democracy in Urban Ghana. Midwest Political Science Association 2017: Sharing, shame, and honor: Evidence from urban Ghana. 2016: Dignified Public Expression: The Practice of Democratic Accountability. 2010: Slum Politics in Ghana. 2009: Towards Socio-Economic Citizenship: The Case of South Africa. Western Political Science Association 2018: Contentious urbanization in Africa.
Language Training Akan-Twi, Spanish Referee American Ethnologist; Political Research Quarterly; American Political Science Review; British Journal of Political Science; Geoforum; McGill-Queen s University Press; Studies in Comparative Institutional Development; Journal of Modern African Studies; Stability; Canadian Journal of African Studies; International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society; Africa Today; Zed Books; Urban Affairs Review; Comparative Political Studies Service/Institutional Priorities African Politics Conference Group (APCG), Secretary, 2017-19 APSA Comparative Urban Politics Related Group, Chair, 2017- Development Research Group for African scholars, Discussant, APSA 2017 Program Coordinator, African Studies Program, USF, 2017-19 Editor, This Week in Africa, News bulletin on democracy, development and daily life in Africa Organizer, Politics Research Colloquium, USF Organizer, Frontiers in the Politics of Development lecture series, USF Organizer, Africa Movie Night, USF Committee member, Internationalization faculty advisory committee, USF Committee member, Lane Award for best essay in Peace & Justice, USF, 2017 Advisory board member, Urban Studies; Peace & Justice; International Studies; African Studies; USF Committee member, APSA Urban and Local Government Best Book Award, 2017 Short course co-organizer, APSA Comparative Urban Politics, 2015 and 2017 IQMR selection committee for African scholars, 2017 Journal of African Political Economy and Development, Advisory Board Africa Research Institute (UK), Advisory Board Accra Wala Digital Humanities Project (Wayne State and Michigan State), Advisory Board Co-Editor, APSA Africa Workshop newsletter, 2015-17 Co-Founder, Lunches on Causal Inference, Bates College Purposeful Work Initiative Classroom Infusion, Bates College African Politics Conference Group, Website Manager and Steering Committee, January 2010-2013 Advisees Master s in International Studies at USF: Gideon Olaniyan (*winner of Most Original Research); Kathryn Landberg (*winner of Best Overall Capstone); Eldana Temesgen; Priyanka Basnyat. Undergrad at Bates: Teddy Poneman (Bates, Thesis), Ned Donaldson (Bates, Thesis), Alex Daugherty (Bates, Thesis), Theodore Rube (Bates, Summer research), Philip Dube (Bates, This Week in Africa) References Michael G. Schatzberg schatzberg@polisci.wisc.edu Scott Straus sstraus@wisc.edu Howard Schweber schweber@polisci.wisc.edu Jacqueline Klopp jk2002@columbia.edu