Joel Selway (Ph.D. 2009, University of Michigan) is an associate professor of political science at Brigham Young University. He is also sits on the executive council of the Southeast Asia Research Group (SEAREG).
His research interests focus on ethnicity and nationalism, and especially on the causes of ethnic violence and the design of democratic institutions to prevent conflict and enhance coordination over public goods provision. He has conducted fieldwork in Thailand, Laos, India and Mauritius.
His publications have appeared in World Politics, Political Analysis, Comparative Political Studies, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Journal of Asian Studies, among others.
State Institutions, Civic Associations, and Identity Demands: Regional Movements in Greater Southeast Asia (edited with Amy Liu), is now available for pre-order!
Selway recently published an article in World Politics on the politicization of foreign aid in India as part of a multiple-university, inter-disciplinary collaboration. The study is entitled "Local Partisan Biases in Allocations of Foreign Aid: A Study of Agricultural Assistance in India."