Bozena C. Welborne
UCB 333
Ketchum Hall, Office 124
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309
welborne@colorado.edu

EDUCATION
May 2010 (exp.) Ph.D. Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder

Fields: Comparative Politics, International Relations, Public Policy
Dissertation: "Between the Veil and the Vote: Exploring the Variation in Women's Political Incorporation in the Middle East and North Africa."

Dissertation Abstract:
The 30th anniversary of CEDAW renewed debate on proposed mechanisms to increase women’s presence in the political sphere across the developing and developed world. Despite common perceptions that women’s political opportunities are uniformly limited across the Arab world, considerable variation exists. While women still lack the right to suffrage in Saudi Arabia, more than 20 percent of parliamentary representatives in Tunisia, Iraq, and the United Arab Emirates are women. This dissertation explores the incentives behind the variation in women’s political incorporation across the Middle East and North Africa through both cross-national statistical and case study analysis, relying on data gathered in two years of fieldwork and from over 100 interviews across Jordan, Morocco, Bahrain, and Yemen. I contend that the nature of predominant foreign financial inputs (foreign aid vs. foreign direct investment) has the most consistent impact on the choice of and commitment to specific gender promotion strategies, and explore this across the legislative (descriptive representation), social (political environment), and policy realms (gender quotas). 

2006 M.A. University of Colorado, Boulder

Field: Political Science
Thesis: “Debt for Peace: Multilateral Debt and its Role in Demilitarizing the Developing World”
Committee: Dr. David Brown, Dr. Steve Chan, and Dr. Colin Dueck

1998 - 2002 B.A. Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
Graduated cum laude
Major: International Political Economy; Minor: German

PUBLICATIONS
"Piety and Redistributive Preferences in the Muslim World," Forthcoming (2010) with Dr. Thomas Pepinsky at Political Research Quarterly.

"Blood for Money:The Impact of Private Military Companies on the Emergence and Duration of Civil War in Africa," Under review at Security Studies.


WORKING PAPERS
“An A for Cosmetics and a C for Substance: Assessing Gender Quotas in the Middle East and North Africa.” Drafted.

“Smart Economics: Conditional Foreign Aid and its Impact on Women's Descriptive Representation in the Middle East and North Africa.” Drafted.

“Private vs. Public Space in the Gendered Medina.” Drafted.

“Debt for Peace: Multilateral Debt and its Role in Demilitarizing the Developing World.” Drafted and Presented.


PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
“An A for Cosmetics and a C for Substance: Assessing Gender Quotas in the Middle East and North Africa, ” To be presented at the American Political Science Association
Conference, Washington, D.C., September 2010.

“Fulbright Enrichment Seminar for the Middle East and North Africa,” Bi-national Fulbright Commission in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt, April 2009.

“Jordanian National Committee for Women’s Qualitative Methods Conference,” Organized and presented at JNCW headquarters in Amman, Jordan, March 2009.

“2008 Conference on Women’s Choices and the Future of Feminism,” University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, May 2008.

“Islam and Redistribution,” Presented with Dr. Thomas Pepinsky at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, April 2008.

“Symbolic Politics and Text Analysis,” Presented with Dr. Ronald Brunner at the University of Colorado’s Text Analysis Community’s Conference, Boulder, December 2007.

“The Path to Modernity: Women’s Tertiary Education and Incentives for Political Incorporation in the Middle East,” American Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, August-September 2007.

“The Future of Freedom: How the Tertiary Education of Women Liberalizes the Middle East,” Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, April 2007.

“Blood for Money: The Subcontracting of Defense in the Developing World,” American Political Science Association Conference, Philadelphia, August-September 2006.

“Debt for Peace: Multilateral Debt and its Role in Demilitarizing the Developing World,” Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, April 2006.

“The New Butter: Multilateral Debt and its Role in Demilitarizing the Developing World,” International Studies Association Conference, San Diego, March 2006.

“Turkey’s Infant Industries all Grown Up,” Colorado College, Annual Economics and Business Department Research Symposium, Colorado Springs, May 2002.


INVITED LECTURES AND TALKS
“An Exploration of Gender Quotas in the Middle East and North Africa,” – Guest lecture at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, Washington, D.C., July 2010.

“Conducting ‘Elite’ Interviews” – Guest lecture in PSCI 7116 Contextual Research Methods
Seminar, University of Colorado at Boulder, February 2010.

“Women and the Media in the Arab Context” – Guest lecture at Institut Supérieur de
l'Information et de la Communication, Rabat, Morocco, December 2009.

“Conducting Interviews” – Lecturer at Jordanian National Committee for Women’s
Qualitative Methods Conference, Amman, Jordan, March 2009.

“Clash of Civilizations? The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina” – Guest lecture in IAFS 1000 Global Issues and International Affairs, University of Colorado at Boulder, fall 2006.

“Yugoslavia: The Collapse” – Guest lecture in PSCI 4092 The Emerging Democracies of Central and Eastern Europe, University of Colorado at Boulder, Spring 2006, summer 2007.


GRANTS AND AWARDS
Department of Political Science Teaching Fellowship, University of Colorado at Boulder, from 2004 - ongoing.

Hybl Democracy Studies Fellowship, International Foundation for Electoral System, summer 2010 ($5000).

Fulbright Fellowship for Jordan, 2008 - 2009 ($19,500).

NSEP/Boren Fellowship for Bahrain and Morocco (seven months), 2009 ($20,000).

Critical Language Enhancement Award for Jordan (declined), Qasid Institute, 2008 ($7000).

Robert Vernon Stover Fellowship, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2008 - 2009 ($1250).

Dorothy Martin Doctoral Student Award, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2008 ($2000).

Beverly Seers Grant, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2008 ($1000).

Department of Political Science Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, University of Colorado at Boulder,summer 2008 for Arabic language training in Morocco ($1792).

Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Award, University of Colorado at Boulder, summer 2008 for Arabic language training at the Arabic Language Institute in Fes,
Morocco ($6500).

Department of Political Science Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, University of Colorado at Boulder, summer 2007 for Arabic language training in Yemen ($2100).

Department of Political Science Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, University of Colorado at Boulder, summer 2006 for classes in statistical methodology at the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research ($1200).

Travel Grant, University of Colorado at Boulder, spring 2006, 2007, 2008 ($200 increments).

Dean’s List for excellent academic records, Colorado College, fall 1997 - spring 2002.

German Department Scholarship, Colorado College, fall 2000 - spring 2001 funding for a year of German language study at Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany.

Christian A. Johnson Scholarship, Colorado College, summer 2000 funding for Italian language study in Sorrento, Italy.


TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Part-time Instructor – University of Colorado at Boulder
Global Development, fall 2010.
International Political Economy, summer 2010.
Special Topics: Islam and Development, spring 2010.
Introduction to Comparative Politics, Maymester 2008.

Teaching Assistant – University of Colorado at Boulder
Introduction to Comparative Politics, fall 2004, 2005; spring 2005, 2007.
Global Issues and International Affairs, fall 2006.
Introduction to International Relations, spring 2006.

Teaching Political Science II, discipline specific training, fall 2005.
Teaching Political Science I, discipline specific training, fall 2004.
Peace Corps TEFL Volunteer (Jordan), summer - fall 2002 (evacuated).


RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant for Dr. Thomas Pepinsky on the economic foundations of vote choice in Indonesia (project funded by Smith-Richardson Foundation), University of Colorado, fall 2007 - spring 2008.

Research Assistant for Dr. Ron Brunner on symbolic politics pre- and post- September 11 using text analysis (LSA) and clustering software, University of Colorado, summer - fall 2007.

Research Assistant for Dr. William Safran on changes in French laws and politics (conducted in French), University of Colorado, spring - fall 2007.

Editorial Assistant for Dr. William Safran for the journal Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (published by Routledge), University of Colorado, fall 2006 - summer 2008.

Research Analyst commissioned by Dr. Frank Laird on developing energy markets for Prisma Energy International, Inc., University of Denver’s Graduate School for International Studies, spring 2004.

RESEARCH TRAINING
Foreign Language Training:
Modern Standard Arabic (levels 4, 5), Qalam wa Lawh Center for Arabic Studies, Rabat, Morocco, summer - fall 2009.
Modern Standard Arabic (levels 3, 4) , Qasid Institute, Amman, Jordan 2008-2009.
Modern Standard Arabic (level 2), Arabic Language Institute in Fes (ALIF), Fes, Morocco, summer 2008.
Modern Standard Arabic (level 1), Yemen Language Center (YLC), Sana'a, Yemen, summer 2007.

Methodological Training:
Generalized Linear Models, discipline specific training, fall 2007.
Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program 2006: Time Series (Dr. Genie Baker) and Complex Adaptive Systems/ Agent- based Modeling (Dr. Scott Page and Dr. Ken Kollman)
Context-Sensitive Methods, discipline specific training, spring 2006.
Data Analysis II, discipline specific training, spring 2005.
Data Analysis I, discipline specific training, fall 2004.
Data Analysis for Development, University of Denver (GSIS), spring 2002.

Statistical Software: STATA, SPSS
Text Analysis Software: Concordance
Programming: rudimentary HTML and Netlogo


TEACHING INTERESTS
Comparative Politics: Middle East and North Africa
Democracy and Development
Women and Politics
International Political Economy
International Security

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Serbo-Croatian: Fluent
German: Advanced
Italian: Advanced
Arabic: Advanced Intermediate; (ACTLF OPI: Advanced - Mid)
Russian: Intermediate
French: Advanced Beginner (DELF A2)

SERVICE
Mentor in Political Science (MOPS), University of Colorado, fall 2007- spring 2008
Graduate Students in Political Science (GIPS)
Midwest Political Science Association's Women's Caucus

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Political Science Association
Midwest Political Science Association
International Studies Association
Women in International Security
American Institute of Maghrebi Studies
Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society
Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society for Social Sciences

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WORK

Then a ploughman said, "Speak to us of Work."
And he answered, saying:
You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth.
For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life's procession, that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.
Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune.
But I say to you that when you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born,
And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life,
And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.
But if you in your pain call birth an affliction and the support of the flesh a curse written upon your brow, then I answer that naught but the sweat of your brow shall wash away that which is written.
You have been told also life is darkness, and in your weariness you echo what was said by the weary.
And I say that life is indeed darkness save when there is urge,
And all urge is blind save when there is knowledge,
And all knowledge is vain save when there is work,
And all work is empty save when there is love;
And when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.
And what is it to work with love?
It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.
It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.
It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit.
It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit,
And to know that all the blessed dead are standing about you and watching.
Often have I heard you say, as if speaking in sleep, "he who works in marble, and finds the shape of his own soul in the stone, is a nobler than he who ploughs the soil.
And he who seizes the rainbow to lay it on a cloth in the likeness of man, is more than he who makes the sandals for our feet."
But I say, not in sleep but in the over-wakefulness of noontide, that the wind speaks not more sweetly to the giant oaks than to the least of all the blades of grass;
And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.
Work is love made visible.
And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.
And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine.
And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

Khalil Gibran