Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Christopher N. Lawrence Business Address: Department of Social Sciences Texas A&M International University 313 LBVSC, 5201 University Blvd Laredo, Texas 78041-1960 Phone: (352) 537-8598 Experience Assistant Professor of Political Science, Texas A&M International University, since August 2008. Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science: Tulane University, July 2007–May 2008. Saint Louis University, August 2006–May 2007. Duke University, August 2005–May 2006. Millsaps College, August 2004–August 2005. Teaching Assistant, ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, July–August 2003; July–August 2004. Instructor of Political Science, University of Mississippi, August 2000–May 2002. Education Doctor of Philosophy, Political Science, University of Mississippi, December 2003. Fields: American Politics and Political Methodology. The Impact of Political Sophistication on the Decision-Making Processes of Voters. Readers: Harvey D. Palmer (chair); John M. Bruce; Charles E. Smith, Jr.; John P. Bentley. Program Scholar, ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, 2001 and 2002. Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, University of Memphis (formerly Memphis State University), May 1998. Also completed undergraduate coursework at Georgetown University and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Awards National Science Foundation grant to attend the Washington University Summer Institute in the Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models, June 2007. H.O.P.E. (Honoring Our Professors’ Excellence) Award, Residence Life and Housing Services, Division of Student Affairs, Duke University, 2005–06 Academic Year. First recipient of the Warren E. Miller Scholarship to attend the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences, University of Michigan, 2001. Christopher N. Lawrence 2 Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals Lawrence, Christopher N. and Michelle L. Dion. 2010. “Blogging in the Political Science Classroom.” Forthcoming in PS: Political Science and Politics 43(1). Lawrence, Christopher N. 2007. “Of Shirking, Outliers, and Statistical Artifacts: Lame-Duck Legislators and Support for Impeachment.” Political Research Quarterly 60(1): 159–62. Brandon, Amy, Mitchell Brown, Christopher Lawrence, and Jennifer van Heerde. 2006. “2006 APSA Teaching and Learning Conference: Teaching Research Methods Track Summary.” PS: Political Science & Politics 39(3): 535. Other Publications Lawrence, Christopher N. 2010. “Busing/Anti-Busing,” “Civil Rights Movement,” “George C. Wallace,” and “New South.” In Thomas Langston, ed., The Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History, vol. 6. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press. Lawrence, Christopher N. 2008. “Voter Knowledge and Ignorance.” In Kenneth F. Warren, ed., The Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior. Thousand Oaks, Ca.: Sage. Lawrence, Christopher N. 2007. “Regime Stability and Presidential Government: The Legacy of Authoritarian Rule, 1951–1990.” Published in translation in Ойкумена (Oikumene, the journal of the National Institute for Strategic Studies, Kiev, Ukraine) 5: 45–64. Lawrence, Christopher N., and Dirk Eddelbuettel. 2005. “Quantian: A Comprehensive Scientific Computing Environment.” The Political Methodologist 13(2): 10–13. Working Papers “Accounting for the ‘Known Unknowns’: Incorporating Uncertainty in Second-Stage Estimation.” Previously presented at the 24th Annual Summer Meeting of the Society for Political Methodology, 2007; currently under review for publication. “Should Voters Be Encyclopedias? Measuring the Political Sophistication of Survey Respondents in the United States and the Netherlands.” Previously presented at the 2007 Southern Political Science Association and Midwest Political Science Association conferences. “Political Sophistication and Conditional Strategic Behavior in U.S. Presidential Elections.” Previously presented at the 2005 Southern Political Science Association conference. “The Role of Political Sophistication in Retrospective Evaluations of Coalition Performance and Vote Choice in a Multiparty Democracy.” Revised version of a paper presented at the 2002 Southern Political Science Association conference. “Heuristics, Hillary Clinton, and Health Care Reform: A Bivariate Ordered Probit Analysis of Public Attitudes on Health Care Policy,” with Harvey D. Palmer. Previously presented at the 2002 Midwest Political Science Association conference and the 2003 South Carolina Political Science Association conference. Christopher N. Lawrence 3 Recent Conference Papers “Geographic Data Visualization Using Open-Source Data and R.” Presented at the 2009 Midwest Political Science Association Conference. “Reforming Research Methods at a Minority-Serving Institution,” with Lynne L. Manganaro and Marcus A. Ynalvez. Presented at the 2009 APSA Conference on Teaching and Learning. “Return to Normalcy? The 2007 Elections in New Orleans.” Presented at the 2008 Midwest Political Science Association Conference. “Textbook Methodology: Undergraduate Research Methods as Depicted in Textbooks.” Presented at the 2008 APSA Conference on Teaching and Learning. “Estimating Cross-Over Voting in the 2005 Jackson, Miss. Democratic Mayoral Primary via Ecological Inference.” Presented at the 2006 Southern Political Science Association conference. Lawrence, Christopher N. 2006. “Integrating Blogs into an Introductory Course in Political Science.” Presented at the 2006 Southern Political Science Association conference. “Voting Behavior and Political Attitudes in the ‘New’ South: Results from an Exit Poll in Jackson, Miss.” Presented at the 2005 Midwest Political Science Association conference. “Iraq, 9/11, and the War: Understanding Mass Belief in the Threat of Saddam Hussein and Support for War.” Presented at the 2004 Midwest Political Science Association conference. “Rock and Roll Will Never Die? A Discussion of the Seeming Failure of ‘Rock the Vote.’ ” (Co-authored with Scott H. Huffmon and Bobbi Gentry.) Presented at the 2003 American Political Science Association conference. Invited Presentations “The 2008 Presidential Election,” U.S. Consulate General, Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, November 4, 2008. Roundtable participant, “New Media and Politics: A Roundtable on Political Scientists as Bloggers,” 2008 Southern Political Science Association Conference, New Orleans, La., January 2008. “Should Voters Be Encyclopedias? The (Mis?)estimation of Voter Sophistication Based on Political Knowledge Items.” Presented at the University of Missouri (Columbia, Mo.), October 2006. “Conceptualizing and Measuring Political Sophistication.” Presented to PLSC 313/Public Opinion and HONR 201H/Voting and Political Participation, Winthrop University (Rock Hill, S.C.), September 2005. “An Overview of the Interstate 69 Corridor.” Presented at “Trading Justice: NAFTA’s New Links and Conflicts” symposium, The University of Memphis Center for Research on Women and Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, March 2005. Roundtable participant, “Can Academics be Bloggers? Can Bloggers be Academics?”, 2005 Annual Meeting of the Public Choice Society, New Orleans, La., March 2005. “The 2004 Elections in Mississippi,” Greater Jackson (Miss.) Optimist Club, October 2004. Christopher N. Lawrence 4 Areas of Teaching and Research Interest Political Behavior: Voting and Political Participation; Public Opinion and Political Psychology Political Institutions: Parties and Interest Groups; Legislative Politics; Law and the Courts American Sub-national Politics: State and Local Politics; Southern Politics Research Methods: Research Design; Survey Research Methods; Quantitative Methodology. Courses Taught American National Government (12 sections, Fall 2000–Fall 2009). State and Local Government, including Texas Government (Spring 2009, Summer 2009, Spring 2010, TAMIU). Research Methods in Political Science/Quantitative Political Analysis (9 sections, Spring 2002–Fall 2009). Introduction to Politics (Fall 2007, Tulane, 6 students). The U.S. Congress (Summer 2005, Millsaps, 4 students; Spring 2007, Saint Louis, 16 students). Congress and the Presidency (Spring 2009, Spring 2010, TAMIU). Voting Behavior and Public Opinion (Spring 2008, Tulane, 20 students). Electoral Behavior (Fall 2004, Millsaps, independent study w/2 students; Fall 2006, Saint Louis, 5 students). Public Opinion and Political Psychology (Spring 2005, Millsaps, 6 students). The U.S. Political System (topics: political parties, interest groups, and mass political behavior, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, TAMIU). Constitutional Law–Institutions and Processes (Fall 2004, Millsaps, 20 students; Summer 2005, Millsaps, 4 students). Constitutional Law–Rights and Liberties (Spring 2005, Millsaps, 16 students). Politics of the American South (Spring 2005, Millsaps, independent study w/1 student; Spring 2006, Duke, 15 students; Fall 2007, Tulane, two sections, 40 students; Spring 2008, Tulane, 35 students). Public Policy Development and Implementation (MPA program, Fall 2008, TAMIU). American Political Behavior (graduate seminar, Spring 2009, TAMIU). American Political Institutions (graduate seminar, Fall 2009, TAMIU). Christopher N. Lawrence 5 Professional Activities Member, Project Vote Smart Texas Key Votes advisory panel, 2009–present. Discussant, American Political Science Association Conference on Teaching and Learning, “Teaching Research Methods” track, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. Paper discussant and/or panel chair: MPSA 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009; SPSA 2007, 2009. Reviewer for the American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics, Politics and Policy, PS: Political Science and Politics, The Journal of Information Technology & Politics, The Journal of Social and Ecological Boundaries, O’Reilly Media, W.W. Norton, Routledge, and Allyn & Bacon/Longman Publishing (Pearson Education). AP Reader, United States Government and Politics Examination, Educational Testing Service, 2006–09. Senior honors thesis committee service, Tulane University, 2007–08 academic year: Rebecca Jade Harry, political economy (second reader) Clarke Taggart Edwards, political economy and economics (third reader) Junior honors thesis supervisor for Kate Jacobson, Millsaps College, 2004-05 academic year. Webmaster: Department of Social Sciences, Texas A&M International University, 2009–present. Department of Political Science, Millsaps College, 2004–05. Miss. Dept. of Education/NSF Evaluative Research and Capacity Building project, 2004. Southern Political Science Association, 1999–2001. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Mississippi, 2000–2003. Department of Political Science, University of Mississippi, 1999–2002. Election Commissioner, Orleans Parish (Ward 14, Precinct 1), 2007–08. Memberships American Political Science Association. Sections: Methods, Information Technology and Politics, and Public Opinion. Midwest Political Science Association. Southern Political Science Association. Pi Sigma Alpha (political science honorary society). Christopher N. Lawrence 6 References Professor Michael C. Munger (munger@duke.edu) Chair, Department of Political Science Duke University 408 Perkins Library, P.O. Box 90204 Durham, North Carolina 27708–0204 Phone: (919) 660-4301 Associate Professor Iren Omo-Bare (omobai@millsaps.edu) Chair, Department of Political Science Millsaps College 1701 N. State Street Jackson, Mississippi 39210–0002 Phone: (601) 974-1439 Professor Robert B. Albritton (ralbritt@olemiss.edu) Professor Robert D. Brown (psrbrown@olemiss.edu) Department of Political Science The University of Mississippi University, Mississippi 38677–1848 Phone: (662) 915-7401 Associate Professor Harvey D. Palmer (hpalmer@buffalo.edu) Department of Political Science 514 Park Hall University at Buffalo, SUNY Buffalo, New York 14260 Phone: (716) 645-2251 ext 514 Professor L. Marvin Overby (overby@missouri.edu) 303 Professional Building Department of Political Science University of Missouri–Columbia Columbia, Missouri 65211–6030 Phone: (573) 882-2130 Professor Thomas Langston (langston@tulane.edu) Chair, Department of Political Science Tulane University 6823 Saint Charles Avenue New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 Phone: (504) 862-8311 Associate Professor Wynne W. Moskop (moskopww@slu.edu) Chair, Department of Political Science Saint Louis University 100 Fitzgerald Hall, 3500 Lindell Boulevard Saint Louis, Missouri 63103–1021 Phone: (314) 977-2897 October, 2009