Curriculum Vitae

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Erin E. Beck
Department of Political Science
Brown University
Box 1844
Providence RI, 02912, USA
Email: Erin_Beck@Brown.edu

EDUCATION
Ph.D. 2012 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
(expected)

M.A. 2007 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

B.A. 2004 Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island
Summa cum laude
Valedictorian with 4.0 GPA

DISSERTATION

Title: Transformation Through Participation?
Women and NGOs in Rural Guatemala

Committee:
Richard Snyder (chair): Professor of Political Science, Brown University
Jane Jaquette: Bertha Harton Orr Professor of Politics Emerita, Professor of
Diplomacy and World Affairs, Occidental College
Patrick Heller: Professor of Sociology and International Studies, Brown University
Pauline Jones Luong: Associate Professor of Political Science, Brown University

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Brown Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship 2010-2011
  • Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2009-2010
  • Brown Language Study Fellowship 2009 to study Maya-K’iche’
  • P. Terrence Hopmann Award for Excellence in Teaching 2008
  • Graduate Program in Development Summer Travel Fellowship 2007 and 2008
  • Distinction: International Relations Comprehensive Exam

TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND INTERESTS

Teaching Assistant (September 2005-May 2009)
Brown University, Department of Political Science
Taught sections, graded exams/papers, held office hours, and occasionally guest               lectured for following courses:

  • POLS0400: Introduction to International Relations (head TA)
  • POLS1480: Theory of International Relations
  • POLS0200: Introduction to Comparative Politics
  • POLS1100: Congress and Public Policy

Teaching Interests (selected sample syllabi available at here)

  • Introduction to Comparative Politics and International Relations
  • Social Movements and Contentious Politics in the Americas
  • Rights-based Movements: Women’s, Indigenous, and Human Rights
  • Non-governmental Organizations in the Developing World
  • Micro-credit and Micro-finance in the Developing World
  • The Politics of Motherhood
  • Latin American Politics
  • Other special topics in Comparative Politics and International Relations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Co-Managing Editor (August 2010-present); Assistant Editor (May 2008-July 2009)
Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID)

  • Assess and review articles for publication in a leading development journal
  • Strategize future direction for the journal with the editorial collective
  • Manage author-publisher relations and communication with editorial collective

Coordinator for Graduate Student Workshop (September 2011-present)
Brown University, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

  • Plan and coordinate workshops in which advanced graduate students studying Latin America and the Caribbean from across the social sciences present and discuss their work in front of interdisciplinary audiences

Graduate Student Fellow (June 2011-present)
Brown University, Center for Careers and Life After Brown (CareerLAB)

  • Create new means of communication with graduate students using social marketing channels; research, edit, and write for the CareerLAB website
  • Evaluate, plan, and implement career-related services and programs for graduate students

Research Assistant (September 2006-January 2007)
Brown University, Professor Pauline Jones Luong

Research Assistant (May 2003-September 2003)
Providence College, Professor Doug Blum

CONFERENCES AND INVITED TALKS

“Recapturing Complexity: The Evolving and Varied Roles of Guatemalan NGOs”
New York State Political Science Association
Niagara University, New York, April 7, 2011

“Unpacking and Contextualizing Participation”
Invited Talk in Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment
Wesleyan University, Connecticut, April 6, 2011

“Ethical Research Practices”
Invited Talk in Radical Politics of Child Birth
University of California Santa Cruz, California, May 28, 2010

“NGOs and Women/Las ONG y las Mujeres”
Beyond Development: Building Collective Future in Guatemala
Santiago Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, October 25, 2010

UNDER REVIEW AND WORKING PAPERS

  • “Applying Theories of Institutional Change to the Field of Guatemalan NGOs:Why Convergence is not Imminent” (Under review, submitted June 2011)
  • “Toward a Theory of Nongovernmental Organizations: NGOs as Situated Organizations” (Working paper)
  • “Applying Civic Skills: Latino Non-electoral Participation in the United States” (Working Paper)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (June 2009)
  • Consortium of Qualitative Research Methods, Syracuse, NY
  • Workshop for the Qualitative Data Repository (March 27-29, 2009): One of two Brown graduate students selected to participate in a workshop to discuss the methodological, technical and ethical issues arising from the establishment of a Qualitative Data Repository

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • American Political Science Association (APSA)
  • Women and Politics Research Section of APSA
  • Guatemalan Solidarity Network