Todd Eisenstadt

Professor at American University School of Public Affairs

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  • American University School of Public Affairs

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American University School of Public Affairs

Degrees

PhD University of California, San Diego MA The Johns Hopkins University BA Brown University

Favorite Spot on Campus

Anywhere there is good coffee

Bio

Professor Eisenstah2 is on leave for 2018-19 at the World Bank, where he is a Council on Foreign Relations Fellow at the Climate Investment Fund (CIF). He has worked on six continents, publishing multiple award-winning books and dozens of articles. He studies development with research that focuses on democratization and environmental politics. He is completing a book with Karleen West using a National Science Foundation-funded survey conducted with Ecuadorian partners to study rural, indigenous communities to understand how they experience climate vulnerability, especially in areas of heavy oil extraction. Who Speaks for Nature? Indigenous Environmental Movements, Public Opinion, and Ecuador''s Petro-State is slated for publication by Oxford University Press in 2019, and stems in part from an earlier book, Politics, Identity, and Mexico''s Indigenous Rights Movements (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

His research also looks at the relationship between constitution-making processes and democratization across scores of nations, and the implementation of judicial reforms in Mexico and Latin America. Along these lines, he and co-authors Carl LeVan and Tofigh Maboudi just published Constituents Before Assembly: Participation, Deliberation, and Representation in the Crafting of New Constitutions (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He also published Courting Democracy in Mexico: Party Strategies and Electoral Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2004 based on his dissertation), and dozens of journal articles and book chapters on this topic. His research has been funded by the Fulbright Commission, the National Security Education Program (NSEP), the Ford and Mellon foundations, USAID, and the NSF.

A former director of multiple United States Agency for International Development (USAID) grants in Mexico, Eisenstah2 has trained hundreds of stakeholders in judicial reform implementation, electoral observation and other government processes there. Formerly an award-winning print journalist and Capitol Hill staffer, Eisenstah2 has worked as a consultant for USAID, the Organization of American States, and several development companies. The 2016-17 chair of American University’s Faculty Senate, and Faculty Trustee for the university, Eisenstah2 has undertaken a range of administrative positions. From 2009-2012 Eisenstah2 served as chair of the Department of Government and has served multiple terms as the Doctoral Program Director. His doctoral students have received awards from the NSF, the Fulbright, Boren, and Inter-American Foundations, and he has held visiting appointments at El Colegio de México and CIDE (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas) in Mexico City, Harvard University, the University of California, San Diego, and the Latin American Social Science Faculty (FLACSO) in Quito, Ecuador.

Teaching

Spring 2018

GOVT-496 Selected Topics:Non-Recurring: Ind, Nation-Sts & Climate Chng

GOVT-898 Doctoral Continuing Enrollment

GOVT-899 Doctoral Dissertation

Fall 2018

GOVT-898 Doctoral Continuing Enrollment

GOVT-899 Doctoral Dissertation

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