Christianna Sirindah Parr

I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the School of Social Sciences at Singapore Management University. You can access my CV here.

I completed my PhD in Political Science at the University of Washington, where I was the Duck Family Graduate Fellow at the Center for Environmental Politics and affiliated with the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences. 

My research interests are primarily concerned with the issues facing civil society organizations across Southeast Asia. I am specifically interested in how environmental non-governmental organizations (eNGOs) and the non-profit sector function in restrictive regime environments. My work is mixed-methods in its nature and includes survey and conjoint experiments and machine learning. 

My research has been published in Global Policy and is forthcoming in the Journal of Public Policy. My commentary on environmental issues can be seen in The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage. I am currently preparing a book-length project based on my dissertation, Shaping Civil Society: Media, Donors and Public Trust in Southeast Asian NGOs, and I have several ongoing projects on social media communication, public attitudes toward AI use in the nonprofit sector, and environmental advocacy in the Southeast Asian region.

I have been funded by grants from the Center of Social Impact Strategy at the University of Pennsylvania, the ARNOVA (Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action) Diversity Leadership grant, the University of Washington’s Center for Environmental Politics, as well as the Kizhanatham Jagannathan Research Grant, among others. 

In addition to my research, I have taught courses in political economy, world politics, public policy, and comparative politics. I received the University of Washington, Department of Political Science’s Best Teaching Assistant Award in 2018. 

Outside of academia I enjoy hiking and endurance walking, birdwatching, attending classical music concerts, going to art galleries and cooking (mostly eating).