C.V.
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EMPLOYMENT
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2014-present
Associate Professor of Political Science and William R. Kenan, Jr. Fellow
Princeton University, 2016-2017
Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance Fellow
EDUCATION
Yale University, 2008-2014
Ph.D., Political Science - May 2014
Dissertation: Regime-contingent biases and the politics of sovereign debt default (awarded with distinction)
Comprehensive Examinations: Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Formal Theory
M.Phil., Political Science - 2011
M.A., Economics - 2010
University of California, Los Angeles, 2000-2004
B.A., English Literature and Composition - 2004
Regent Scholar, summa cum laude, minor in Political Science
BOOK
Cameron Ballard-Rosa (2020) Democracy, Dictatorship, and Default: Urban-Rural Bias and Economic Crises Across Regimes. Cambridge University Press.
PUBLICATIONS
Cameron Ballard-Rosa (2016) "Hungry for Change: Urban Bias and Autocratic Sovereign Default." International Organization, 70(02), 313-346.
Cameron Ballard-Rosa (2016) "Review of Rethinking Sovereign Debt: Politics, Reputation, and Legitimacy in Modern Finance by Odette Lienau." Perspectives on Politics, 14(01), 284-286.
Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Lucy Martin, and Kenneth Scheve (2017) "The Structure of American Income Tax Policy Preferences." The Journal of Politics, 79(1), 1-16.
Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Allison Sovey Carnegie and Nikhar Gaikwad (2018) "Economic Crises and Trade Policy Competition." British Journal of Political Science, 48(3), 713-748.
Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Layna Mosley and Rachel Wellhausen (2021) "Contingent Advantage? Sovereign Borrowing, Democratic Institutions, and Global Capital Cycles" British Journal of Political Science 51(1). Cambridge University Press: 353-73.
Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Mashail Malik, Stephanie Rickard and Kenneth Scheve (2021) "The Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values: Evidence from Local Trade Shocks in Great Britain" Comparative Political Studies 54(13): 2321-2353.
Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Amalie Jensen, and Kenneth Scheve (2022) "Economic Decline, Social Identity, and Authoritarian Values in the United States" International Studies Quarterly 66(1): sqab027.
Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Layna Mosley, and Rachel Wellhausen (2022) "Coming to Terms: The Politics of Sovereign Bond Denomination" International Organization 76 (1). Cambridge University Press: 32-69.
Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Bryan Schonfeld, and Allison Sovey Carnegie (2023) "The Geography of Democratic Discontent" British Journal of Political Science 53(2). Cambridge University Press: 366-386.
Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Judith Goldstein and Nita Rudra (2024) "Trade as Villain: The Fading American Dream and Declining Support for Globalization" Journal of Politics 86(1). University of Chicago Press: 274-290.
UNDER REVIEW
Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Ronald Rogowski, Kenneth Scheve, and Nicolaj Thor (2021) "Inequality, Information, and Income Tax Policy Preferences in Austria and Germany."
Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Layna Mosley and Peter Rosendorff (2023) "A Dragon in the Debt Shop? Paris Club Sovereign Debt Restructuring and the Rise of China."
Cameron Ballard-Rosa and Tyler Ditmore (2024) "Footloose Capital In The Land Of America First: Economic Nationalism And Mass Preferences Over Corporate Tax"
WORK IN PROGRESS
Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Stephanie Rickard and Kenneth Scheve (2018) "Liberal Populism: Public Support for Globalization in Post-Brexit United Kingdom"
Cameron Ballard-Rosa (2019) "The Albatross of Education: Personal Student Debt and Preferences for Redistribution."
Alper, Kaitlin and Cameron Ballard-Rosa (2021) "Rising Education Debt in Europe."
Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Layna Mosley and Peter Rosendorff (2022) "Sunlight Cures all (Currency) Ills"
Cameron Ballard-Rosa and Lucy Martin (2023) "Mass Preferences over Sovereign Debt"
Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Hannah Loffler, Layna Mosley & Peter Rosendorff (2024) "Credit Ratings, Information Transparency, and Political Survival"
PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS
American Political Science Association (APSA) - 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024
Princeton University, The Politics of Sovereign Finance workshop (hosted at SPIA in Washington, DC) - 2024
Harvard University, Political Economy of International Finance (PEIF) - 2024
Interdisciplinary Sovereign Debt Research and Management Conference (DebtCon) - 2014, 2023
New York University, International Relations workshop - 2023
UNC, International Relations workshop - 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2023
International Political Economy Society (IPES) - 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022
Princeton University, Anti-Globalization Backlash: New Approaches workshop - 2022
McGill University, International Relations workshop - 2021
Washington University in St. Louis, Comparative Politics Annual Conference (CPAC) - 2021
Global Research in International Political Economy (GRIPE) - 2020, 2021
New York University, International Relations workshop - 2020 (cancelled due to covid)
University of Wisconsin at Madison, International Relations workshop - 2020
Stanford University, International Relations workshop - 2013, 2018
University of Pennsylvania, New Directions in International Money and Finance conference - 2018
Oxford University, Comparative Political Economy seminar - 2017
Duke University, Political Economy workshop - 2017
College of William and Mary, Atlantic Political Economy Society (APES) - 2017
Princeton University, Electoral Realignments in Advanced Democracies conference - 2017
Princeton University, Princeton Research in Experimental Social Science (PRESS) - 2017
Princeton University, Globalization and Global Governance workshop - 2017
University of Zurich, Conjoint Analysis in Political Economy conference - 2017
UNC, Sovereign Debt Management conference - 2016
Columbia University, International Relations workshop - 2016
Princeton University, International Relations colloquium - 2016
Duke University, Preferences for Redistribution conference - 2016
Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) - 2013, 2014, 2016
Interdisciplinary Sovereign Debt Research and Management (DebtCon) - 2016
U.C. Berkeley, Center on the Politics of Development - 2013
Yale University, International Relations workshop - 2013
Yale University, Leitner Political Economy workshop - 2013
Yale University, Comparative Politics workshop - 2012
Yale University, Leitner Political Economy working group - 2011
AWARDS, HONORS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
Excellence in Reviewing Award, British Journal of Political Science - 2024
Robson Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching and Mentoring - 2020
Schwab Academic Excellence Award, Institute for Arts and Humanities - 2020
David A. Lake Award for Best Paper, IPES - 2018
Princeton University, Niehaus Center Research Fellowship - 2016-2017
RJ Reynolds Industries, Inc. Junior Faculty Development Award - 2016
Institute for Arts and Humanities, Book Conference funding - 2016
Exchange Scholar, Stanford University - 2013
Robert M. Leylan Fellowship - 2012-2013
Yale University Dissertation Fellowship - 2012-2013
Falk Fellowship - 2008-2011
TOP Chinese Proficiency Examination, Advanced Level, Taiwan - 2007
Regent Scholarship, UCLA - 2000-2004
National Merit Scholar - 2000-2004
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
UNC, Chapel Hill
International Political Economy (graduate) - Fall 2015, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2023
International Political Economy (undergraduate) - Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
Politics of Authoritarian Survival - Fall 2014, Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2023
Political Responses to Financial Crises - Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022
Introduction in International Relations - Fall 2021, Spring 2023, Fall 2023
Yale University
Political Psychology (Professor John Bullock) - Spring 2014
Fundamentals of Formal Modeling (Professor John Roemer) - Fall 2013
International Political Economy (Professor Kenneth Scheve) - Spring 2011, 2012
Debating Globalization (Professor Ernesto Zedillo) - Fall 2010, 2011
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Faculty affiliate, Princeton Sovereign Finance Lab - 2023
Co-coordinator, Global Research in Political Economy workshop - 2022-current
Field Chair, Comparative Political Economy - MPSA 2020
Carolina International Relations Association (Faculty Director) - 2015-2016; 2021-current
Leitner Political Economy Workshop (Coordinator) - 2012-2013
War and Political Change Conference (Coordinator) - 2012
Reviewer: American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Business and Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Economics and Politics, International Interactions, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Experimental Political Science, Journal of Politics, Party Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Political Analysis, Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly, Regulation and Governance, Review of International Organizations, Review of International Political Economy, SAGE Open, Studies in Comparative International Development, World Development
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Mandarin Chinese (advanced)
Spanish (intermediate)
Italian (beginner)