Richard Wilcox
302 S. Edgewood St. Arlington, VA 22204
801-836-4418(cell) • [email protected]
EDUCATION
George Washington University: Washington, DC
Ph.D. in Political Science, 2013 (est.)
Major: International Relations Minor: Comparative Politics
• Advanced to Candidacy March 2011
• GPA: 3.91
• Dissertation: ‘Pacifying Leviathan: United Nations Peace Operations and Post-Civil War
State Repression.’
• Committee: James Lebovic (chair), Eric Lawrence, Susan Sell
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan:
Ann Arbor, MI: 2011
Summer Program in Quantitative Methods
• Intermediate Regression Analysis
• Advanced Regression Analysis
• Maximum Likelihood Estimation
• Causal Inference
Utah Valley University: Orem, UT
Bachelor of Science in Integrated Studies (Social Sciences and Business Management), 2005
• Graduated Cum Laude
• Senior Thesis: ‘Economic Influences on United States Foreign Policy: Guatemala and the
United Fruit Company.’ Nominated for best departmental thesis.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
• ‘The Ontological Security Dilemma,’ Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association
– Northeast, Baltimore, 2008.
• ‘The Effect of United Nations Peace Operations on Post-Civil War State Repression,’ Annual
Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Diego, 2012.
• Institute for Global and International Studies, Discussant for Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, ‘The
International Legal Regulation of Religion,’ November, 2011.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant
Prof. James Lebovic, George Washington University, 2012
• Assembled databases on monthly troop totals in United Nations peacekeeping operations.
• Constructed literature reviews related to how domestic political coalitions respond to foreign
intervention as well as empirical case studies of how Iraqi and Libyan political coalitions in
particular responded to same.
Research Assistant
Prof. Lee Sigelman, George Washington University, 2008-2009
• Constructed database of New York Times references to Supreme Court Chief Justices from
1930-2006.
• Constructed database of New York Times references to the Watergate informant Deep Throat.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant, George Washington University, 2009-2013
PSC 011/1011: Politics and Values (Steven Kelts)
• Part of GWU’s Politics and Values program, a selective and intellectually rigorous year-long
introduction to political science for elite freshmen.
• Responsibilities included leading discussion sections, grading, advising, and giving class
lectures.
Teaching Assistant, George Washington University, 2007-2009
IAFF 005: Introduction to International Affairs (Henry Nau)
• Responsibilities included leading discussion sections, grading, advising, and leading group
projects.
Teaching Assistant, George Washington University, 2006-2007
PSC 001: Introduction to Comparative Politics (Emmanuel Teitelbaum)
• Responsibilities included leading discussion sections, grading, and advising.
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
• Graduate Teaching Fellow, George Washington University, 2006-present.
• Selective Excellence Fellowship, George Washington University, 2008-2010.
•Departmental grant to attend ICPSR, Summer 2011 ($3000).
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
BurrellesLuce, Provo, UT
Media Monitoring Technician (2005-2006)
• Helped code software to more effectively detect media references to clients.
College Times, Orem, UT
Section Editor, 2004-2005
• Responsibilities included assigning, editing, and writing articles for bi-weekly newspaper.
State and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, Salt Lake City, UT
Public Records Intern, (2000-2002)
• Responsible for digitizing easement and right-of-way records via Optical Character
Recognition software.
SKILLS
Statistical Software: Stata, R
REFERENCES
James Lebovic (dissertation chair)
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
(202) 994-7495
[email protected]
Eric Lawrence
Associate Professor of Political Science
(202) 994-4826
[email protected]
Susan K. Sell
Professor of Political Science and International Relations
(202) 994-5477
[email protected]