Drew Holland Kinney
110 Persson Hall, Colgate University
Hamilton, NY 13346
(315) 480-8194
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EMPLOYMENT
Colgate University
Visiting Assistant Professor
Tulane University
Visiting Assistant Professor
St. John Fisher College
Visiting Assistant Professor
Hamilton, N.Y.
2022-
New Orleans, La.
2019-2022
Rochester, N.Y.
2019-
EDUCATION
Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University
Ph.D., Political Science
M.A., Political Science
Committee: Mehrzad Boroujerdi (chair), Brian Taylor, Yüksel Sezgin, Osamah Khalil (history), Seth Jolly, Wesley Renfro (Quinnipiac)
Subfields: International Relations, Comparative Politics (with distinction)
Certificates: Advanced Study of the Middle East
St. John Fisher College
B.A., Political Science (with honors)
B.A., Communications-Journalism
Birzeit University
Syracuse, N.Y.
2018
2014
Rochester, N.Y.
2012
2012
Ramallah, Palestine
2013 & 2015
RESEARCH
Interests
Civil-military relations, coups d’état, revolutions & regime change, political violence, democratization, authoritarian persistence
Book Project
Politicians at Arms: Civilian Coup Advocacy in the Post-Colonial Middle East, revise & resubmit, Cambridge University Press.
Peer Reviewed
“What’s In a Name? Experimental Evidence of the Coup Taboo,” with Sharan Grewal (College of William & Mary). Democratization, March 2022.
“Trump-World on Horseback: Conservative Coup Advocacy in the United States,” forum essay, eds. Jonathan Powell and Erica De Bruin, International Studies Review 24, no. 1 (2022): 13-18.
“Civilian Coup Advocacy,” chapter in Encyclopedia of Military Politics, Oxford University Press (eds. Hicham Bou Nassif, Claremont McKenna College, William Thompson, Indiana University).
“Sharing Saddles: Oligarchs and Officers on Horseback in Tunisia and Egypt,” International Studies Quarterly 65, no. 2 (2021): 512–527.
“Politicians at Arms: Civilian Recruitment of Soldiers for Middle East Coups,” Armed Forces & Society 45, 4 (2019): 681-701.
“Civilian Actors in the Turkish Military Drama of July 2016,” Eastern Mediterranean Policy Note. September 19, 2016.
In Progress
“The Coup Taboo: Normative Effects of Stigmatized Coup Politics in the Middle East and Beyond”
“Imagining Regime Security: The Role of Ideology in Security Structure Design” with Max Margulies (West Point)
Reviews
“Watermelon Democracy: Egypt's Turbulent Transition by Joshua Stacher,” The Middle East Journal. 2020.
“Revolts and the Military in the Arab Spring: Popular Uprisings and the Politics of Repression by Sean Burns,” Review of Middle East Studies. 2019.
Other Essays
“Learning from the Banality of Bolivia’s Coup,” War on the Rocks. February 26, 2020.
“A Pyrrhic Victory? Expectations and Reality in the Wake of Tunisia’s Elections,” Democracy & Society. October 23, 2019.
“What the history of coups in the Middle East tells us about Venezuela,” The Washington Post. May 2, 2019.
“The Invisible Line: Soldiers and Civilians in the Middle East,” Jadaliyya. July 17, 2018.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Field Research, Tunis Exchange, Tunis, Tunisia
Archival Research, Le Centre des Archives Diplomatiques, Nantes, France
Archival Research, Hoover Institution, Stanford, Calif.
Archival Research, The National Archives, London, United Kingdom
Archival Research, The American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Archival Research, The National Archives, London, United Kingdom
Field Research, Data Collection, Amman, Jordan
Field Research, Interviews, Ramallah, Palestine
Field Research, Short trip to Egypt to observe Tamarod coup movement
June 2019
July 2018
July 2018
August 2018
July-August 2017
August 2016
August 2015-June 2016
December 2014-January 2015
July 2013
RESEARCH LANGUAGES
Arabic Fluent, Modern Standard & Levantine Dialect
French Advanced Reading Proficiency
Turkish Beginner
Farsi Beginner
GRANTS & AWARDS
Research Grant, Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa ($2,500)
Travel Grant, Program in American Grand Strategy, Duke University ($800)
All-University Dissertation Prize, Syracuse University ($500)
Short-Term Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 2018 ($1,000+)
Travel Grant, American Political Science Association, 2018 ($200)
The Cohn Fund, The Maxwell School, 2018 ($4,000)
Andrew Berlin Family National Security Fellow, Syracuse University, 2016 & 2017 ($4,890)
The Roscoe Martin Fund, The Maxwell School, 2015-17 ($2,590)
The John D. Nagle Award, The Maxwell School, 2016 ($900)
Middle East Studies Research & Travel Grant, The Maxwell School, 2013 & 2015 ($2,500)
Stefan Maczynski Award for Excellence in Political Science, St. John Fisher College, 2012
TEACHING
Civil-Military Relations, Colgate University
Fundamentals of International Relations, Colgate University
Civil-Military Relations, Tulane University
Middle East Comparative Politics, Tulane University
International Conflict, Tulane University
International Relations, Tulane University
Islam and Politics, Tulane University
The Arab Spring, Hamilton College
Syrian Politics, Hamilton College
Analytical Skills for Global Affairs, New York University
Comparative Politics, St. John Fisher College
Middle East Politics, St. John Fisher College
International Security, St. John Fisher College
Global Political Economy, St. John Fisher College
Revolutions in the Middle East, Syracuse University
International Relations, St. John Fisher College
Politics of Development in the Middle East, CIEE Amman
The Israel-Palestine Conflict, CIEE Amman
History of the Modern Middle East, AMIDEAST Amman
History of the Modern Middle East, Cornell University
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2019-20
2019-20
2019-20
2019-20
2019-20
2019
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2019
2019
2019
2019
2019
2018
2017-18
2015-16
2015-16
2015
2014
PRESENTATIONS
Workshop on Middle East Politics, Northeast Middle East Politics Working Group, Hamilton College, N.Y.
Workshop on Militaries & Security Services, APSA Annual Meeting, Boston, Mass.
Workshop on Authoritarianism & Democratic Breakdown, Hoover Institution, Stanford, Calif.
Panel, New York State Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Rochester, N.Y.
Panel, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Ill.
Panel, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Ill.
Research Workshop, Maxwell School, Syracuse, N.Y.
Panel, New York State Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Syracuse, N.Y.
Panel, ISA Midwest Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Mo.
Panel, All Politics is Local Annual Meeting, Canton, Oh.
2019
2018
2018
2017
2017
2014
2013
2013
2012
2012
PROFESSIONAL
Reviewer, Review of Middle East Studies, Middle East Journal, Comparative Politics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Armed Forces & Society, Mediterranean Politics
Senator, Graduate Student Organization, Syracuse University
Teaching Associate, Future Professoriate Program, Syracuse University
REFERENCES
Mehrzad Boroujerdi (mborouje@maxwell.syr.edu)
Seth Jolly (skjolly@maxwell.syr.edu)
Yüksel Sezgin (ysezgin@maxwell.syr.edu)
Osamah Khalil (ofkhalil@maxwell.syr.edu)
Brian Taylor (bdtaylor@maxwell.syr.edu)
September 2022
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