Lowell Barrington

Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Graduate Studies.

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1995.

lowell.barrington@marquette.edu

Lowell Barrington is Associate Professor, Assistant Chair, and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science. His teaching and research specializations include post-Communist politics, ethnicity and nationalism, democratization, and political science research methodology. He has received research grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER).

Barrington's publications include an introductory comparative politics textbook, Comparative Politics: Structures and Choices (Wadsworth/Cengage, 2010), which was released in February of 2009. He also has an edited book (University of Michigan Press) titled After Independence, and he is currently working on a book manuscript titled National Identity versus International Organizations. His research articles have appeared in World Politics, European Journal of Political Research, Political Research Quarterly, PS: Political Science and Politics, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Post-Soviet Affairs, Europe-Asia Studies, Nationalities Papers, Journal of Central Asian Studies, Post-Soviet Geography and Economics, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, and Review of Central and East European Law. He is also the author of book chapters on Baltic citizenship and nationalism in Ukraine.

He is a Research Affiliate with UW-Madison's Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA). He has also served as Editor-in-Chief of Analysis of Current Events, Social Science Proposal Reviewer for the National Research Council, and was Vice President of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN). He is currently a member of ASN's Executive Committee.

An avid tennis player, Barrington has worked as a professional tennis instructor at two different tennis clubs (in Madison, WI and Jackson, WI).

CV

Courses

• POSC 2401 Comparative Politics | Syllabus
• POSC 2601 International Politics | Syllabus
• POSC 4421 Democracy, Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism | Syllabus
• POSC 4511 Russian and Post-Soviet Politics | Syllabus
• POSC 4711 International Politics of Europe | Syllabus
• POSC 6101 Contemporary Political Research | Syllabus
• POSC 6446 Comparative Democratization | Syllabus
• POSC 6441 Comparative Nationalism | Syllabus
• POSC 6956 Research Seminar in Comparative Politics: OLS Regression Analysis in Comparative Politics | Syllabus
• HOPR 1953 National Identity and Multiculturalism | Syllabus

Publications

Books:

• Comparative Politics: Structures and Choices (with contributions by Michael Bosia, Kathleen Bruhn, Susan Giaimo, and Dean McHenry) (Wadsworth/Cengage, 2010)

• After Independence: Making and Protecting the Nation in Postcolonial & Postcommunist States, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006

Selected Articles:

• "Reexamining Region, Ethnicity, and Language in Ukraine" (with Regina Faranda), Post-Soviet Affairs 25, no. 3 (July-September 2009): 232-256.
• "Bias in Newspaper Photograph Selection" (with Andrew Barrett), Political Research Quarterly 58, no. 4 (December 2005): 609–618. Reprinted as the majority of chapter 14 of Janet Buttolph Johnson, H. T. Reynolds, and Jason D. Mycoff, Political Science Research Methods, 6th ed., Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2008.
• "Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words?: Newspaper Photographs and Voter Evaluations of Political Candidates" (with Andrew Barrett), Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 10, no. 4 (Fall 2005): 98–113.
• "One Ukraine or Many?:  Regionalism in Ukraine and Its Political Consequences," (with Erik S. Herron), Nationalities Papers 32, no. 1 (March 2004): 53-86.
  
• "The Motherland is Calling: Views of Homeland among Russians in the Near Abroad," (with Erik S. Herron, and Brian D. Silver), World Politics 55, no. 2 (January 2003): 290-313.
• “Economic Calculations, Cultural Perceptions, or General Outlooks on Life?: What Shapes Views of the ‘Ethnic Other’ in Kazakhstan,” Journal of Central Asian Studies 7, no. 1 (Fall/Winter 2002): 2–30.
• "Views of the Ethnic 'Other' in Ukraine," Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 8, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 83–96.

• "Examining Rival Theories of Demographic Influences on Political Support: The Power of Ethnic, Linguistic, and Regional Divisions in Ukraine," 41, no. 4 European Journal of Political Research(June 2002): 455–491.

• "Understanding Public Opinion in Post‐Communist States: The Effects of Statistical
  Assumptions on Substantive Results" (with Erik S. Herron), Europe-Asia Studies 53, no. 4 (June 2001): 573–594.

• "Russian-speakers in Ukraine and Kazakhstan: 'Nationality,' 'Population,' or Neither?" Post-Soviet Affairs 17, no. 2 (April–June 2001): 129–158.

• "A Reply to David Laitin," Post-Soviet Affairs 17, no. 2 (April–June 2001): 164–66.
  

• "Less Assessment, More Learning," Academe Nov-Dec. 2003

Recommended Links

• Association for the Study of Nationalities
• Eurasia Group

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