Charmaine N. Willis

Contact Information & Background:

Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
Office: Ladd Hall #308
Phone: 
Email: cnwillis@skidmore.edu

Website: cnwillis.com

Education:

• Ph.D., Political Science, University at Albany, State University of New York
• M.A., Political Science, University at Albany, State University of New York
• M.A., International Affairs, American University
• B.A., Political Science, University of Southern Maine
• Study Abroad: Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies (Nagasaki, Japan)

Research Interests:

• Contentious politics
• Social movements
• Terrorism
• International security
• US foreign policy
• East Asia (including Southeast Asia)
• Civil Society
• Pedagogy

Courses:

• Introduction to Comparative and International Politics
• East Asian Politics
• US Foreign Policy
• Global Militarization and the Politics of Empire

Select Publications

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals:

• Brian D. Greenhill and Charmaine N. Willis. (2023). “States as Role Models: Why Some Countries’ Policies Matter More Than Others.” International Studies Perspectives.
• Angela Pashayan, E. Stefan Kehlenbach, Huei-Jyun Ye, Grace Mueller, and Charmaine N. Willis. (2023). “The Realities Facing Graduate Students: Before, During, and After the 2020 Covid Pandemic.” PS: Political Science and Politics.
• Kenya Amano, Melanie Sayuri Dominguez, Timothy Fraser, Etienne Gagnon, Trevor Incerti, Jinhyuk Jang, Charles McClean, Austin Mitchell, Sayumi Miyano, Colin Moreshead, Harunobu Saijo, Diana Stanescu, Ayumi Teraoka, Charmaine N. Willis, Yujin Woo, Hikaru Yamagishi, and Charles Crabtree). (2022). “Field Research When There Is Limited Access to the Field: Lessons from Japan.” PS: Political Science and Politics 56 (1): 99-105.
• Ezgi Irgil, Anne-Kathrin Kreft, Myunghee Lee, Charmaine N. Willis, and Kelebogile Zvobgo. (2021). “Field Research: A Graduate Student’s Guide.” International Studies Review 23 (4): 1495-1517.
• Amira Jadoon, Julia Lodoen, Charmaine Willis, and Nakissa Jahanbani. (2020). “Breaking the Glass Ceiling?: Islamic State-Linked Female Militancy in Southeast Asia.” Terrorism and Political Violence 34 (8): 1774-1796.
• Victor Asal, Charmaine Willis, Christopher Linebarger, and Nakissa Jahanbani. (2020). “If the Lords Are So Revolting, Why Are Revolutions So Rare: The Peasant Game.”PS: Political Science and Politics 54 (2): 331-335.
• Injeong Hwang and Charmaine N. Willis. (2020). “Protest by Candlelight: A Comparative Analysis of Candlelight Vigils in South Korea.” Journal of Civil Society 16 (3): 260-272.
• Victor Asal, Inga Miller, and Charmaine Willis (2020). “System, State, or Individual: Gaming Levels of Analysis in International Relations.” International Studies Perspectives 21 (1): 97-107.
• Charmaine N. Willis (2020). “Democratization and civil society development through the perspectives of Gramsci and Tocqueville in South Korea and Japan.” Asian Journal of Comparative Politics 5 (4): 371-384.
• Nakissa P. Jahanbani and Charmaine N. Willis (2019). “The Ballot or the Bomb Belt: The Roots of Female Suicide Terrorism Before and After 9/11.” Small Wars and Insurgencies 6-7: 1117-1150.
• Nakissa Jahanbani, Charmaine Willis, and Donnett Lee (2018). “What We Wish We Knew: Reflections on Being a Teaching Assistant.” Journal of Political Science Education 14 (3): 409-413.

Book Chapters

• “Paddling the Pupils: The Legality (or Not) of Corporal Punishment in Schools” (with Lucy Sorenson, Victor Asal, and Melissa Breger), (forthcoming) in Children’s Rights in Crisis: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives, ed. Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr.
• “International Studies in Action: A Guide to Using Simulations in Political Science” (with Joseph W. Roberts, and Victor Asal, (forthcoming) in The Oxford Handbook of International Studies Pedagogy, eds. Mark A. Boyer, David J. Hornsby, and Heather A. Smith.
• “Abstract Blitzing and Beyond: Teaching Political Methodology” (with Victor Asal and Reyhan Topal), in Teaching Graduate Political Methodology, eds. Mitchell Brown, Shane Nordyke, and Cameron G. Thies. 2022.
• “Fieldwork for Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers: A Practical Guide” (with Kelebogile Zvobgo, Myunghee Lee, Anne-Kathrin Kreft, and Ezgi Irgil), in Strategies for Navigating Graduate School and Beyond, eds. Kevin G. Lorentz II, Daniel J. Mallinson, Julia Marin Hellwege, Davin Phoenix, and J. Cherie Strachan. 2022.

Working Papers

• “Trading with Pariahs: International Trade and North Korean Sanctions” with Keith Preble.
• “Not All Boats Float on the Rising Tide: Democratization and Anti-US-Base Protest Movements in South Korea and the Philippines.”
• “The Enemy of My Enemy: Threat Perception and Public Support for the US Military in South Korea and Japan” (with Myunghee Lee and Charles Crabtree).
• “The Right Frame of Mind: An Analysis of Global Anti-US Military Activism.”
• “Sitting on a Nickel Mine: A Spatial Analysis of Ethnic Mobilization in the Philippines” (with Nakissa Jahanbani).
• “PrayforMarawi: Global Reactions to the 2017 Marawi Siege” with Asif Nawaz and Amira Jadoon.
• “With Friends Like These: Sanctions-Busting and US Bases Abroad” with Keith Preble.

Selected Awards and Grants

• 2023: Best Graduate Student Paper Award for “Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Contemporary Resistance to the US Military in the Philippines,” Foreign Policy Section, American Political Science Association.
• 2023: Travel and Accessibility Grant, Committee on the Status of LGBT Individuals in the Profession, American Political Science Association.
• 2022: Research Grant for “Trading with Pariahs: The Failure of Economic Statecraft in a Weaponized Interdependent World,” American Political Science Association Spring Centennial Center (with Keith A. Preble).
• 2021-2022: Field Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
• 2020-2021: Asia Fellowship, American Political Science Association.
• 2020-2021: Field Research Fellowship, Korea Foundation.
• 2018-2019: Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Southeast Asia Research Group (SEAREG).
• 2018: Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant in Political Science, University of Albany.