CV

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Employment

Concordia University; Montreal, Canada (2020–)

• • Assistant professor, Department of Political Science

  • Faculty member, Loyola Sustainability Research Centre

University of Oxford; Oxford, United Kingdom (2019/2020)

• • Postdoctoral researcher in international climate policy

  • Climate Econometrics, Nuffield College

Education

University of Oxford; Oxford, United Kingdom (2015–2019)

• • DPhil, International Relations (completed in May 2019)

  • Dissertation title: "Participation and cooperation in climate governance"

  • Supervisor: Professor Duncan Snidal

  • Joint graduate studentship (scholarship) in Politics and International Relations from the Department of Politics and International Relations and Christ Church (full fees and living expenses)

  • QStep graduate scholar, departmental writing up award, Christ Church (college) maintenance grant, Christ Church (college) travel grant, departmental travel grant

  • MPhil, International Relations, 2015

University of British Columbia; Vancouver, Canada (2008–2013)

• • BA (Honours), Political Science and International Relations, 2013

  • Goel Prize in Political Science, Dean’s List, Trek Excellence Scholarship, President’s Entrance Scholarship

  • Full-year undergraduate exchange at Sciences Po Paris (2010/11)

Refereed journal publications

• • Rowan, Sam S. (2021) "Does institutional proliferation undermine cooperation? Theory and evidence from climate change." International Studies Quarterly

    • Publisher's version; pre-print

  • Rowan, Sam S. (2019) "Pitfalls in comparing Paris pledges." Climatic Change, vol. 155, no. 4, p. 455-467.

    • Publisher's version (open access)

Working papers

• • "Analyzing international organizations: How the concepts we use affect the answers we get." (with Charles Roger) Invited to revise and resubmit.

• • "The new terrain of global governance: Mapping membership and fragmentation across international organizations." (with Charles Roger)

  • "Temperature shocks and climate policy."

  • "Climate protests and legislators' behaviour" (with Christopher Barrie and Thomas Fleming)

  • "Rational choice perspectives on international institutions" (with Duncan Snidal), chapter for the Oxford Handbook of International Institutions

Conferences

• • American Political Science Association (APSA): 2018

  • Environmental Politics and Governance (EPG): 2019, 2020 (online)

  • European Geosciences Union (EGU): 2020

  • International Political Economy Society (IPES): 2017

  • International Studies Association (ISA): 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

  • Political Economy of International Organization (PEIO): 2018, 2019, 2020

  • UN Climate Conference (UNFCCC COP): 2017/COP23

Teaching

• • International Climate Politics (Concordia): 2020/2021

  • Global Environmental Politics (Concordia): 2020/2021

  • Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences (Oxford): 2017/18, 2018/19