About

I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the School of Social Sciences at Singapore Management University. I completed my PhD in Political Science at the University of Washington, where I was the Graduate Director and a Fellow at the Center for Environmental Politics and earned a graduate certificate from the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences. 

My research examines civil society and the politics of environmental sustainability in Southeast Asia. I am particularly interested in how environmental non-governmental organizations and the non-profit sector function in restrictive regime environments. My work draws on survey experiments, conjoint analysis, and computational text analysis.

I am preparing a book manuscript, Public Legitimacy and Civil Society in Southeast Asia, for the Cambridge University Press Elements series. Ongoing projects examine critical mineral mining for the green transition, religious framing in support for renewable energy, and the governance of artificial intelligence.

My work has been supported by the Center for Social Impact Strategy at the University of Pennsylvania, the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, the University of Washington Center for Environmental Politics, the Henry Luce Foundation, and the Kizhanatham Jagannathan Research Grant. I was a departmental nominee for the University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences' Graduate Medal and a nominee for the ARNOVA Gabriel G. Rudney Memorial Award for an outstanding dissertation in non-profit and voluntary action research.

Other interests

My interests outside research include art and design, classical music, cooking (mostly eating) food. I enjoy visiting energy infrastructure and endurance walking. I hope to walk a marathon and walk across Hadrian's Wall!

Contact

School of Social Sciences
Singapore Management University
10 Canning Rise, Singapore 179873
cparr@smu.edu.sg