Joel Wellington Simmons

Employment:

Stony Brook University:  Fall 2007 to present

Education:

Ph.D. University of Michigan; Department of Political Science: 2008

B.A. Saint Louis University: 2000

Dissertation:

Dissertation Committee:  Robert Franzese (co-chair), Allen Hicken (co-chair), John Jackson, and Elizabeth Gerber (Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan)

“The Political Economy of Technological Progress: Parties, Time Horizons and the Pursuit of Economic Growth through Technological Development” 

Publications and Working Papers:

• The Politics of Hard Choices: IMF Programs and Government Spending (with Irfan Nooruddin )  International Organization. 60: Fall 2006.  pp.1001-1033
  

• The Personal Vote and the Efficacy of Education Spending (with Allen Hicken).  American Journal of Political Science. 52:1 (January 2008), 109-124

• Openness, Uncertainty, and Social Spending:  Implications for the Globalization-Welfare State Debate (with Irfan Nooruddin) Conditional acceptance at International Studies Quarterly (Aug. 13, 2008)
  

• Party System Nationalization and Public Goods Production (with Ken Kollman and Allen Hicken) Under Review
  
  
• State Monitoring and Popular Mobilization in Nondemocratic Regimes" (with Rene Lindstaedt) In Progress
  

Conference Presentations:

• "Rules, Collective Punishment, and Popular Mobilization in Nondemocratic Regimes" (with Rene Lindstaedt):   Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 2008; Boston
  
  
• “Party System Nationalization and Public Goods Production” (with Ken Kollman and Allen Hicken)

1. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Sept 2007; Chicago
2. Paper accepted for presentation for the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2008; Chicago

• Openness, Uncertainty, and Social Spending:  Implications for the Globalization-Welfare State Debate” (with Irfan Nooruddin)

1. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2007; Chicago
2. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Political Science Association, September 2007; Pisa, Italy.
   

• “Political Particularism and Public Service Spending” (with Allen Hicken).

1. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, March 2006; San Diego
2. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association April 2006; Chicago

• “Political Time Horizons and the Prospects for Technological Change”. 

1. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, March 2006; San Diego
2. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association April 2006; Chicago
3. Presented as:  “Political Institutions and Growth through Innovation”.  Paper presented at the Annual Midwest Political Science Association.  April     2004; Chicago.
   

• “The Politics of Hard Choices” (with Irfan Nooruddin). 

1. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, March 2005; Honolulu  
2. Paper presented at the Annual Midwest Political Science Association.  April 2004; Chicago. 
3. Paper presented at the Annual Political Science Association.  September 2004; Chicago.
4. Paper presented at the Conference on Social Protection at The Ohio State University, October 2004; Columbus
   

• “Institutions, Constituencies and Human Development Policies” (w/ Irfan Nooruddin).  Paper presented at the Southern Political Science Association Conference.  January 2004; New Orleans.

• “Political Institutions as Determinants of Human Development” (with Irfan Nooruddin and Dagfinnur Sveinbjornssn).  Paper presented at the Annual Midwest Political Science Association. April, 2003; Chicago. 

Other Conference Activity:

• Panel Discussant at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2005; Chicago.
• Panel Chair & Discussant at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, March 2005; Honolulu
• Invited panelist, Conference on Social Protection, Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University; October, 2004
• Panel Chair at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, February 2002, New Orleans.
  

Teaching:

• At Stony Brook University

1. Introduction to Comparative Politics (Undergraduate)
   
2. Third World Politics (Undergraduate)
3. Comparative Institutions (Graduate)

• At the University of Michigan:

1. Political Science 140—Introduction to Comparative Politics Course Instructor:  Summer (June-August) 2006
2. Political Science 160—Introduction to World Politics Course Instructor:  Spring (May-June) 2005
3. Graduate Student Mentor for New Graduate Student Instructors:  2004-2005 Academic Year
4. Introduction to Statistics I and II—Inter-Consortium of Political and Social Research:  Summer 2003 and Summer 2004
5. Political Science 341—Comparative Politics of Advanced Democracies Grader:  Fall 2003 (with Professor Robert Franzese)
6. Political Science 160—Introduction to World Politics
7. Graduate Student Instructor:  Fall 2001 (with Doug Lemke); Spring 2002 (with James D. Morrow); Fall 2002 (with Doug Lemke); Spring 2003 (with James D. Morrow)

Fellowships, Grants, and Awards:

• Center for International Business Education Grant Award for Doctoral Dissertation Research in International Business:  Ross School of Business, University of Michigan: 2005
• Rackham Merit Fellowship:  Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan:  2000 to 2007 (deferred in 2003)
• Summer research collaboration grant:  Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan: Summer 2004 (with Professor Allen Hicken)
• Summer research collaboration grant:  Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan: Summer 2003 (with Professor Kathryn Dominguez)
• U.S. Department of Education  Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS); Indonesian:  2003
• Nominated for John Kingdom Department Teaching Award:  Department of Political Science, University of Michigan: 2004
• Rackham Conference Travel Grants: Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan:—2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

Research Experience at the University of Michigan:

• Allen Hicken and Ken Kollman.  (2006-2007 academic year). Research assistant, collecting data regarding the determinants of party formation and nationalization
• Robert Franzese (2006-2007 academic year).
• Allen Hicken (fall 2002).  Research assistant, collecting data regarding the relationship between a variety of political institutions and public policy.
• Robert Franzese (fall 2004 to spring 2005). 
• Jennifer Widner (fall 2002).  Served as a research assistant on the “Constitution Writing and Conflict Resolution Project”. 
• Robert Franzese and Cindy Kam (2002).  Served as a research assistant on the “Modeling Interactive Hypotheses in Regression Analysis” project. 

Professional Associations:

• American Political Science Association
• International Studies Association
• Midwest Political Science Association

Languages:

• Spanish (intermediate)
• Indonesian (introductory)
• STATA, SPSS, LaTeX