Academic Experience, Professional Activities, Awards and Fellowships

Chris Howell

Educational Background:

Ph.D. Yale University, December 1989 (Political Science).
M.Phil Yale University, December 1986 (Political Science).
M.A. Yale University, May 1985 (International Relations).
B.A. (Honors) Trinity College, Cambridge University, June 1983 (History).

Awards and Fellowships:

Oberlin College Research Status appointment, 2006-07.
Oberlin College Mellon 8 Summer Stipend, 2003
Oberlin College Curriculum Development Fellowship, Fall 2002.
Oberlin College Research Status appointment, 1999-2000.
Oberlin College Powers Travel Grant, 1996.
Oberlin College Research and Development Grant, 1995.
German Marshall Fund Research Fellowship, 1994-95.
National Endowment for the Humanities collaborative research grant, 1992-94.
Oberlin College Andrew Delaney Fellowship in the Social Sciences, 1992-93.
Oberlin College Powers Travel Grant, 1992-93.
Honorable Mention for the Georges Lavau Dissertation Prize awarded by the APSA Conference Group on French Politics and Society, 1990.

Academic Experience:

Professor, Oberlin College, December 2000 to the present.
Associate Professor with tenure, Oberlin College, July 1994 - December 2000.
Academic Visitor, London School of Economic and Political Science, January-June 1997
Assistant Professor, Oberlin College, August 1989 - June 1994.
Acting Instructor, Yale University, Spring 1988, Spring 1989.
Teaching Assistant, Yale University, Spring 1986 - Fall 1988.

Other Professional Activities:

Member of the Board of Directors of Policy Matters Ohio, March 2001 to the present. Also on the Research Committee of Policy Matters Ohio.

Elected to the governing board of the Worker Rights Consortium, November 2000 to May 2005. Also Board Treasurer of the WRC for 2003-2004.

Elected to the Executive Committee of the British Politics Group, for a two-year term, 1999-2001. Also on the dissertation research award committee of the British Politics Group, 2002.

Chair of the Program Committee for the Eleventh International Conference of Europeanists, 1998.

Division chair of the organized section, Politics and Society in Western Europe, for the 1996 APSA annual meeting.

Steering Committee of the Council for European Studies, 1994-98.

Member of the Advisory Committee for the GLCA European Academic Term Program, 1995-99.

Member of the National Screening Committee for Fulbright graduate applications to Britain, Fall 2004

Editorial Board of Labor History, and International Advisory Board of Studies in Political Economy.

Ad hoc reviewer for Comparative Politics, American Political Science Review, Houghton Mifflin, University of Michigan Press, World Politics, International Organization, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Perspectives on Politics, Labor History, Studies in Political Economy, Comparative European Politics, Politics & Gender, Comparative Politics, Princeton University Press, The University of California International and Area Studies Digital Publishing Program, Macmillan Palgrave, Policy Press, and University of Manchester Press.

Outside reviewer for the Canadian Social Science Research Council.

Tenure and promotion reviewer for Macalester College, Vassar College and Illinois Wesleyan University.

Research Interests:

Political Economy of Advanced Capitalist Societies
Trade Unions and Industrial Relations
Social Democratic and Labor Parties

Teaching Fields:

Political Economy
Comparative Politics
West European Politics
British and French Politics
Trade Unions and Industrial Relations
Gender and Political Economy
(Syllabi available on request)

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