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Dan Miodownik (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Political Science Department) is jointly appointed as a tenure-track Lecturer (US Assistant Professor) in the Departments of Political Science and International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He studies the emergence, unfolding and regulation of anti-regime mobilization, protest behavior, ethnic polarization, and civil wars. Dr. Miodownik also has significant interest in the development of computer simulations -- Agent-Based Modeling in particular -- to assist comparative political analysis of these and other complex social phenomena. His work has been published in journals such as the American Political Science Review; Journal of Conflict Resolution ; Comparative Politics ; Studies in Comparative International Development; Nationalism & Ethnic Politics; Social Science Computer Review; and Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulations. Dr. Miodownik teaches courses on ethnic mobilization, civil wars, the study of politics and research methods.

Complete CV

Publications

Articles

  • "Does Political Decentralization Exacerbate or Ameliorate Ethnopolitical Mobilization? A Test of Contesting propositions" (with Britt Cartrite) Political Research Quarterly , Forthcoming (read this paper - not yet).
  • "The Puzzle of the Diffusion of Central Bank Independence Reforms: Insights from an Agent-based Simulation" (with Orit Rapaport and David Levi-Faur) Policy Studies Journal , Vol. 37, No. 4, October 2009, 679-701 (read this paper).
  • "Ethnic Polarization, Ethnic Salience, and Civil War" (with Ravi Bhavnani) Journal of Conflict Resolution , Vol. 53, No. 1, January 2009, 30-49 (read this paper).
  • "Abstractions, Ensembles, and Virtualizations: Simplicity and Complexity in Agent-Based Modeling" (with Ian S. Lustick), Comparative Politics, Vol. 41, No. 2, January 2009, 223-244 (read this paper).
  • "REsCape: An Agent-Based Framework for Modeling Resources, Ethnicity, and Conflict" (with Ravi Bhavnani and Jonas Nart) Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Vol. 11, No. 2, Spring 2008 (read this paper).
  • "Cultural Differences and Economic Incentives: An Agent-Based Study of their Impact on the Emergence of Regional Autonomy Movements" Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Vol. 9, No. 4, Fall 2006 (read this paper).
  • "Demarking Political Space: Territoriality and the Ethnoregional Party Family" (with Britt A. Cartrite), Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 2006, 53-82 (read this paper).
  • "Secessionism in Multicultural States: Does Sharing Power Prevent or Encourage It?" (with Ian S Lustick and Roy J. Eidelson), American Political Science Review, Vol. 94, No. 2, May 2004, 209-230 (read this paper).
  • "The Institutionalization of Identity: Micro Adaptation, Macro Effects, and Collective Consequences" (with Ian S. Lustick), Studies in Comparative and International Development, Vol. 37, No. 2, Summer 2002, 24-53 (read this paper).
  • "Studying Performance and Learning with ABIR: The Effect of Knowledge, Mobilizing Agents, and Predictability" (with A. Maurits van der Veen and Ian S. Lustick), Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 19, No. 3, Fall 2001, 263-279 (read this paper).
  • "Deliberative Democracy and Public Discourse: The Agent-Based Argument Repertoire Model" (with Ian S Lustick), Complexity Vol. 5, No. 4, March/April 2000, 13-30 (read this paper).
  • "Studying performance and learning with ABIR: A research note" (with Ian S Lustick, and A. Maurits van der Veen), in Proceedings of the Workshop on Simulation of Social Agents: Architectures and institutions, Chicago: University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory, 2001, 137-143.

Book chapters

  • "Macro- and Micro-Level Theories of Violence in Ethnic and Non-Ethnic Civil Wars" (with Ravi Bhavnani), in Tor Jacobson (ed.) Causes of War: An Introduction to Theories Behind Warfare and Collective Violence (forthcoming 2010).
  • "Agent-Based Models in the Study of Ethnic Violence" (with Ravi Bhavnani and Rick Riolo), in Alexander Kott and Gary Citrenbaum (eds.) Estimating Impact: A Handbook of Computational Methods and Models for Anticipating Economic, Social, Political and Security Effects in International Interventions (forthcoming 2010).
Teaching

2009-2010

  • Civil Wars Since 1946: Onset, Duration, termination (Fall 2009 + Spring 2010, Graduate Seminar, Webpage)
  • Intra-State Conflicts: Sources and Regulation (Fall 2009 + Spring 2010, Undergraduate Seminar,Webpage)
  • Greed, Grievances and Civil War (Spring 2010, Undergraduate)
  • Research Methods in International Relations Fall 2010,Undergraduate)

    • 2008-2009

    • Introduction to Political Science (Fall 2008, Undergraduate)
    • The Complexity of Ethnicity in Civil Wars (Fall 2008 + Spring 2009, Graduate)
    • Greed, Grievances and Civil War (Spring 2009, Undergraduate)
    • Research Methods in International Relations (Spring 2009, Undergraduate)

    2007-2008

    • Introduction to Political Science (Fall 2007, Undergraduate)
    • The Complexity of Ethnicity in Civil Wars (Fall 2007 + Spring 2008, Graduate)
    • Greed, Grievances and Civil War (Spring 2008, Undergraduate)
    • Research Methods in International Relations (Spring 2008, Undergraduate)

    2006-2007

    • Social Movements and Their Political Effects (Fall 2006 + Spring 2007, Graduate)
    • Research Methods in International Relations (Fall 2006, Undergraduate)
Fellowships, Awards, and Grants
  • Allon Fellowships for Outstanding Young Researchers, Council For Higher Education (2008-2011)
  • Israel Science Foundation, Research grant (2007-2010)
  • Golda Meir Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2006-2007)
  • University Intramural Research Fund Career Development Award. Authority for Research and development, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2006-2007)
  • Returning Scientist award. Ministry of Absorption, The State of Israel (2006-2007)
  • Post-Doctoral fellow, School of Political Science, Haifa University (2005-2006)
  • Dissertation research funding, National Science Foundation (NSF) (PI: Ian S. Lustick) (2003-2005)
  • Graduate fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (1998-2002)
  • Graduate fellowship, Tel-Aviv University and ISEF (1998-2003)
  • Award for distinctive scholarly achievements, ISEF (1998)
  • Academic merit and social activism award, ISEF (1995-1998)
  • Academic merit, University of Tel Aviv, School of Social Sciences (1995-1996)
Conferences, Workshops, Seminars
Contact Information
Dr. Dan Miodownik
Department of Political Science
The Hebrew University
Mt Scopus, Jerusalem
ISRAEL 91905 		Phone: 011 (+972) 2.588.3149
Fax: 011 (+972) 2.588.1333
E-mail: miodownik-at-mscc.huji.ac.il
Skype: miodownikdan
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