Colin D. Moore - Department of Political Science - University of Hawaii

Colin D. Moore
Academic Employment
University of Hawaii at Manoa (808) 388-0451 (c)
Department of Political Science (808) 956-8016 (o)
2424 Maile Way, Saunders 613 cdmoore@hawaii.edu
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 www.colindmoore.com
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, 2011 - forward
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research, 2009 - 2011
YALE UNIVERSITY
Research Fellow, Center for the Study of American Politics, 2008 - 2009
Education
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Ph.D., Department of Government, 2009
- Dissertation: “Institutions of Empire: Information, Delegation, and the Political
Control of American Imperialism, 1890-1913.” Committee: Daniel P.
Carpenter (chair), Eric Schickler, and Theda Skocpol.
- Winner of the Walter Dean Burnham Award from the American Political Science
Association for the best dissertation in the field of Politics and History.
- Winner of the Robert Noxon Toppan Prize from Harvard University for the best
dissertation in political science.
A.M., Department of Government, 2006
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
B.A., High Honors in Political Science, 2002
Publications
“State Building Through Partnership: Delegation, Public-Private Partnerships, and
the Political Development of American Imperialism, 1898-1916,” Studies in American
Political Development (April 2011), v. 25: 27-55.
“American Imperialism and Political Development,” Clio (Fall/Winter 2011), v.
21(1).
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“Early Entrant Protection in Approval Regulation: Theory and Evidence from FDA
Drug Review,” with Daniel P. Carpenter, Susan I. Moffitt, Ryan T. Rynbrandt,
Michael M. Ting, Ian Yohai, and Evan James Zucker, Journal of Law, Economics &
Organization (December 2010), v. 26(3): 515-545.
“Robust Action and the Strategic Use of Ambiguity in a Bureaucratic Cohort: FDA
Officers and the Evolution of New Drug Regulations, 1950-1970,” with Daniel P.
Carpenter, in Formative Acts: American Politics in the Making, Matthew Glassman
and Stephen Skowronek, eds., (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007)
“Renewals and Extensions of the Voting Rights Act,” in The Voting Rights Act: Securing
the Ballot, Richard Valelly, ed., (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly
Press, 2005)
Book Project
“Institutions of Empire: Bureaucratic Autonomy, Public-Private Partnerships, and
the Political Development of American Imperialism, 1898-1930” ( in preparation)
Working Papers and Research in Progress
“Innovation without Reputation: The Rise, Decline, and Resurrection of the Veterans’
Health Administration, 1945 - 2000” (research in progress)
“Gender and Recruitment by Petition: Women Canvassers in Antislavery Petitioning,
1833-1847,” with Daniel P. Carpenter and Theda Skocpol
“Public Infrastructure and Political Mobilization: The Erie Canal and Antislavery
Petitioning 1835-1839,” with Daniel P. Carpenter and Clayton Nall
Conference Presentations
“Delegated Empire: Executive-Congressional Relations, State Building through Partnership,
and the Political Development of American Imperialism, 1898-1916”
- Presented at the History of Congress Conference; Berkeley, California, June
2010
“Eighty Years of Socialized Medicine: The VA and the Politics of American Health
Care”
- Presented at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy
Research Conference; La Jolla, California, June 2010
“From Hierarchies to Markets in American Empire: Networks, Public-Private Partnerships,
and the Political Development of American Imperialism, 1898-1913”
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- Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association;
Chicago, Illinois, April 2010
“Dollar Diplomacy as Institutional Bricolage: Public-Private Partnerships and the
Making of American Empire, 1898-1920”
- Presented at the American Politics and Public Policy Workshop; Yale University,
April 2009
“Delegated Empire: Information, Networks, and the Political Control of American
Imperialism, 1900-1913.”
- Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association;
Chicago, Illinois, April 2009
“Public Infrastructure and Political Mobilization: The Erie Canal and Antislavery
Petitioning 1835-1839,” with Daniel P. Carpenter and Clayton Nall.
- Presented at the American Politics and Public Policy Workshop, Yale University,
April 2009; the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association,
Chicago, Illinois, April 2009
“Gender and Recruitment by Petition: Women Canvassers in Antislavery Petitioning,
1833-1847,” with Daniel P. Carpenter.
“Robust Action in a Bureaucratic Cohort: The FDA and the Evolution of New Drug
Regulations, 1950-1970,” with Daniel P. Carpenter.
- Presented at the American Political Development Conference; Yale University,
October 2004; the American Politics Research Workshop; Harvard University,
September 2005
“The Tides of Opinion: The American Mass Public During the New Deal and
WWII,” with Adam J. Berinsky and Eric Schickler.
- Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association;
Chicago, Illinois, September 2004
“Crowded Cities, Crowded Streets: How Living in Big Cities Can Increase Civic
Engagement,” with Daniel J. Hopkins.
- Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association;
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2003; the American Politics
Research Workshop; Harvard University, March 2004; the Annual Meeting of
the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 2004
Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Seed Grant for “The Puzzling Politics of Primary
Care for Veterans.” Principal Investigator; with Robert W. Mickey (University of
Michigan). $15,000.
Walter Dean Burnham Award for the best dissertation in the field of Politics and
History. Awarded by the American Political Science Association, September 2010.
Robert Noxon Toppan Prize for the best dissertation upon a subject of political
science. Awarded by Harvard University, June 2009.
Research Fellowship, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy
Research Program, University of California, Berkeley; August 2009 - July 2011
Research Fellowship, Center for the Study of American Politics, Institution for Social
and Policy Studies, Yale University; August 2008 - June 2009
Finalist, Marquand Award for Exceptional Advising and Counseling, Harvard University;
2008.
Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University; Spring 2006, Fall 2006,
Spring 2007, Spring 2008.
Dissertation Research Fellowship, Center for American Political Studies, Harvard
University; July 2006 - June 2007
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, July 2003 – June 2006.
Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Award,
Summer 2003, 2004.
Harvard University Fellowship for Graduate Study, September 2002 – June 2007.
Swarthmore College, Center for Social and Political Studies, Summer Research Award,
Summer 2000, 2001.
Teaching, Academic Advising, and Professional Activities
American Politics; University of Hawaii, Fall 2011.
War and Trade in American Political Development; Yale University, Spring 2009.
Senior seminar for Political Science majors.
The Politics of American Expansion and Empire; Harvard University, Fall 2007.
Junior seminar for Government concentrators.
Undergraduate Concentration Advisor, Department of Government, Harvard University;
Fall 2006 - Spring 2008.
Resident Tutor, Currier House, Harvard University; Summer 2006 - Spring 2008.
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