Jordan Carr Peterson
3518 Trousdale Parkway, VKC 327, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0044
e-mail: [email protected] | tel.: 904 704 3335
website: http://www.jordancarrpeterson.com
EDUCATION.
University of Southern California, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science
(expected May 2018).
Dissertation title: ”Private Interests in American Government Institutions.”
Fields: American Politics, Comparative Politics, Methods.
Advanced methods certificate, received by completing six-course sequence in quantitative research methods.
Dissertation committee: Christian R. Grose (chair), Jeb Barnes, Anthony Bertelli,
Pamela J. Clouser McCann.
University of Florida Levin College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2012.
Book Award, Advanced Constitutional Law.
University of Southern California, B.A., German literature, magna cum laude, 2008.
PUBLICATIONS.
“Letting Down the Ladder or Shutting the Door: Female Prime Ministers, Party Leaders, and Cabinet Members” (with Diana Z. O’Brien, Matthew Mendez, and Jihyun Shin),
Politics & Gender 11(4): 689- 717, 2015.
ARTICLES UNDER
REVIEW.
“The Outer Limits of Bureaucratic Neutrality: A Natural Experiment of Private Financial
Interests and Decision-Making on the National Labor Relations Board.” (dissertation chapter).
“The Mask of Neutrality: Partisan Calculation and the Politics of Judicial Redistricting.”
“Personal Business Interests and Legislative Voting to Remove Racially Intolerant Symbols.” (with Christian Grose).
WORKING
PAPERS.
“Separated Institutions Sharing Interests: Interbranch Trust and Investment-Oriented Judicial Deference to Administrative Policy Choices” (dissertation chapter).
“Packing the Courts: An Examination of Expansions to the Federal Judiciary from 1937 to
2012” (with Adam Feldman, Thora Giallouri, and Elli Menounou).
“Homines Economici: Judicial Decision-Making and the Financial Interests of Federal
Judges” (with Thora Giallouri and Elli Menounou).
“The Private Interests of Public Officials: Risk Acceptance by Members of Congress and
the 2008 Financial Crisis” (with Christian Grose).
“Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges, or, It’s the American Way: Hearsay and United States
Military Commissions,” New Zealand Centre for Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice
Research Working Paper Series, International Criminal Justice Division, 2012-2013.
RESEARCH &
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE.
Editorial Assistant, Journal of Politics (beg. Aug. 2017).
Research Assistant, Christian Grose, USC Dept. of Political Science (beg. Aug. 2017).
Collecting and coding data for project funded through a grant from the Russell Sage
Foundation regarding political institutions and the persistence of income inequality.
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Research Assistant, Pamela J. Clouser McCann, USC Price School of Public Policy (2014present).
Managed research assistants coding data related to project on intercameral bargaining
in Congress; worked extensively on data regarding judicial review of agency actions.
Research Assistant, Christian Grose, USC Dept. of Political Science (2012-2013).
Collected and managed data related to 2010 redistricting plan in Florida.
Research Assistant, Mary Jane Angelo, University of Florida Levin College of Law (2012).
Researched developments in Florida water use law and regulatory policy for pesticides.
Research Assistant, Robert Emerson, University of Florida Warrington College of Business (2011).
Researched European corporate law, and German and French civil procedure.
AWARDS.
Graduate Research Symposium Winner, “Separated Institutions Sharing Interests:
Interbranch Trust and Investment-Oriented Judicial Deference to Administrative Policy
Choices, USC Graduate Research Symposium (award for best paper in the social sciences,
April 2017, First Place, $1000).
Malcolm Jewell Award, “The Outer Limits of Bureaucratic Neutrality: A Natural Experiment of Private Financial Interests and Decision-Making on the National Labor Relations
Board (honorable mention; award for best paper by a graduate student at the 2016 Southern
Political Science Association annual meeting, January 2017).
Graduate Research Symposium Winner, “Personal Business Interests and Legislative
Voting to Remove Racially Intolerant Symbols, USC Graduate Research Symposium (award
for best paper in the social sciences and humanities, February 2016, Second Place, $750).
Prestage-Cook Travel Award, Southern Political Science Association ($300).
Graduate Research Symposium Winner, “Black Robes in the Political Thicket: Judicial Redistricting, Political Entanglement, and Electoral Effects, USC Graduate Research
Symposium (award for best paper in the social sciences and humanities, April 2015, Third
Place, $500).
University Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Southern California
Center for Excellence in Teaching (November 2014, Department of Political Science).
Best Oral Advocate, Raymer F. Maguire Appellate Advocacy Competition, sponsored
by Holland & Knight LLP, University of Florida Levin College of Law (Spring 2012).
Semifinalist, Williams Institute Moot Court Competition, UCLA School of Law (Spring
2011).
Best Overall Advocate, Zimmerman Kiser & Sutcliffe Appellate Advocacy Competition,
University of Florida Levin College of Law (Fall 2010).
CONFERENCE
PRESENTATIONS.
“Separated Institutions Sharing Interests: Interbranch Trust and Investment-Oriented Judicial Deference to Administrative Policy Choices.”
Presented at Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago (Apr. 2017);
to be presented at Southern California Law & Social Science Forum, Claremont McKenna
College (Apr. 2017); & American Political Science Association annual meeting, San Francisco
(Aug. 2017).
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“The Private Interests of Public Officials: Financial Regulation in the U.S. Congress.”
Presented at Legislative Studies Virtual Workshop (Jan. 2016); Western Political Science
Association annual meeting, Las Vegas, NV (Apr. 2015); Southern California Law and
Social Science Forum, University of Southern California Gould School of Law (Mar. 2015);
& American Political Science Association annual meeting, Washington, DC (Aug. 2014).
“The Outer Limits of Bureaucratic Neutrality: A Natural Field Experiment of Private
Financial Interests and Decision-Making on the National Labor Relations Board.”
Presented at mini-conference on field experiments and elites at the Southern Political Science
Association annual meeting, San Juan, PR (Jan. 2016); Southern California Law & Social
Science Forum, University of California San Diego (Mar. 2016); & Western Political Science
Association annual meeting, San Diego (Mar. 2016).
“Black Robes in the Political Thicket: Judicial Redistricting, Political Entanglement &
Electoral Effects.”
Presented at University of Southern California Graduate Research Symposium (Apr. 2015);
Southern Political Science Association annual meeting, New Orleans (Jan. 2015); & Southern
California Law & Social Science Forum, Whittier Law School (Mar. 2014).
“Personal Business Interests and Legislative Voting to Remove Racially Intolerant Symbols.”
Presented at Southern Political Science Association annual meeting, New Orleans, LA (Jan.
2017); & Citadel Symposium on Southern Politics, Charleston (Mar. 2016).
“Homines Economici: Judicial Decision-Making and the Financial Interests of Federal
Judges.”
Presented at Southern Political Science Association annual meeting, New Orleans (Jan.
2017); Western Political Science Association annual meeting, San Diego (Mar. 2016).
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICE.
Peer reviews completed for: American Politics Research; European Political Science Review;
Research and Politics.
Conference Panel Discussant, “Legislative Campaigns and Elections Potpourri,” Midwest
Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago, April 8th, 2017.
Conference Panel Chair, “Legislator Compliance with Interest Group and Constituent Demands,” Conference on Field Experiments and Elites, Southern Political Science Association
annual meeting, San Juan, PR, January 9th, 2016.
Conference Panel Chair, “Case Studies of Regulation,” Southern California Law and Social
Science Forum: Regulation, Law, and Social Science, University of Southern California
Gould School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, March 27th, 2015.
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE.
California State University, Long Beach.
Jurisprudence, POSC 414 (Fall 2015).
University of Southern California.
Head Teaching Assistant, POSC 130g: Law, Politics, and Public Policy, Jeb Barnes
(Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014).
Teaching Assistant, POSC 130g: Law, Politics, and Public Policy, Alison Dundes
Renteln (Fall 2015).
Teaching Assistant, POSC 100: Theory and Practice of American Democracy, Christian Grose (Fall 2014).
Teaching Assistant, POSC 130g: Law, Politics, and Public Policy, Art Auerbach (Fall
2013).
University of Florida Levin College of Law.
Teaching Assistant, Appellate Advocacy, Shalini B. Ray (Spring 2012).
Teaching Assistant, Legal Research and Writing, Shalini B. Ray (Fall 2011).
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OTHER
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE.
Law Clerk, Office of the Public Defender, Fourth Judicial Circuit, Jacksonville, FL (2011).
STATISTICAL
COMPUTING &
PROGRAMMING
COMPETENCY.
Stata; Python; R; LATEX.
LANGUAGE
FLUENCY.
German (advanced, written/spoken); Spanish, French (intermediate, written/spoken).
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS.
American Political Science Association; Southern Political Science Association; Western
Political Science Association; Midwest Political Science Association.
Annotator and Experimental Administrator, University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies Natural Language Division, Marina del Rey, CA (2008-2009).
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