CV

You can find a full PDF version of my CV here (June 2022)

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

  • MPhil, International Relations, 2015

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

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

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

Refereed journal publications

• • Roger, Charles B. and Rowan, Sam S. (2021). "Analyzing international organizations: How the concepts we use affect the answers we get." The Review of International Organizations, vol. 13, no. 3, p. 597-625.

    • Publisher's version; pre-print

  • Rowan, Sam S. (2021) "Does institutional proliferation undermine cooperation? Theory and evidence from climate change." International Studies Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 2, p. 461-475.

    • Publisher's version; pre-print

    • Winner of the APSA International Collaboration Section 2022 Best Article Award

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

    • Publisher's version (open access)

Conferences

• • American Political Science Association (APSA): 2018, 2022

  • 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, 2022

  • Political Economy of International Organization (PEIO): 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022

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

Teaching

• • POLI 312: Climate Politics (Concordia): 2021/2022, 2022/2023

  • POLI 486: International Climate Politics (Concordia): 2020/2021, 2021/2022, 2022/2023

  • POLI 644: Quantitative Research Methods (Concordia): 2022/2023

  • POLI 687/812: Global Environmental Politics (Concordia): 2020/2021, 2021/2022, 2022/2023

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