Here is my most recent CV.

I am an Assistant Professor in Cornell University's Department of Government, where I teach classes on game theory and the political economy of developing countries. At Cornell, I am on the Executive Committee of the International Political Economy Program, a member of the Foreign Policy Network, and a faculty associate of the Center for the Study of Inequality, the Institute for African Development, the Latin American Studies Program, and the Institute for Social Science's project on Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility.

My current research focuses on political stability and inequality in developing countries, with a particular interest in how non-tax revenues such as oil rents and foreign aid affect these outcomes.  My work has been published in Development Policy Review, Electoral Studies, International Organization, and Public Choice, as well as edited volumes.  I have a Ph.D. in political science (Duke University), an M.A. in economics (Duke), an M.Sc. in development studies (London School of Economics), and a B.A. in political science (Emory University).

I also have an interest in development policy, having been a Fellow at the Overseas Development Council (ODC) and consulted for the World Bank and the Center for Global Development.  While at ODC, I co-authored (with Ravi Kanbur and Todd Sandler) The Future of Development Assistance: Common Pools and International Public Goods (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), and was a member of the core team of authors of the World Bank’s World Development Report 2000/01: Attacking Poverty, writing the chapters on the international actions necessary for poverty reduction.  I have also been a member of the Africa Task Force, a group of policymakers and academics co-directed by Kwesi Botchwey and Joseph Stiglitz at Columbia University’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue.  My opinion pieces have appeared in The Durham Herald-Sun, The Financial Times, The International Herald Tribune, and The Raleigh News & Observer.