CV

You can find a full PDF version of my CV here (March 2024)

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 (2013–2019)

• • DPhil, International Relations, 2019

  • Dissertation title: "Participation and cooperation in global 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

• • Rowan, Sam S. (2024). "Effective climate clubs require ambition, leverage and insulation: Theorizing issue linkage in climate change and trade." The Review of International Organizations, p. 1–26. 

    • Publisher's version; pre-print

  • Barrie, Christopher, Fleming, Thomas and Rowan, Sam S. (2024). "Does protest influence political speech? Evidence from UK climate protests, 2017--2019". British Journal of Political Science, vol. 54, no. 2, p. 456–473

    • Publisher's version (open access)

  • Rowan, Sam S. (2023). "Extreme weather and climate policy." Environmental Politics, vol. 32, no. 4, p. 684–707. 

    • Publisher's version (open access); pre-print

  • Roger, Charles B. and Rowan, Sam S. (2023). "The new terrain of global governance: Mapping membership in informal international organizations." Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 67, no. 6, p. 1248–1269.

    • Publisher's version (open access)

  • Roger, Charles B. and Rowan, Sam S. (2022). "Analyzing international organizations: How the concepts we use affect the answers we get." 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)

Teaching

• • POLI 312: Climate Politics: x3

  • POLI 486: International Climate Politics: x4

  • POLI 644: Research Design: x2

  • POLI 687/812: Global Environmental Politics: x4