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December 28, 2008
 

Contact Information

Center for Government and International Studies
Harvard University
1237 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA, 02138
Telephone: (617) 495-2605
Email: hiscox@fas.harvard.edu
Web: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hiscox/
 

Academic Positions

Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University, 2008 to the present.

Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University, 2005 to 2008.

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Government, Harvard University, 2001 to 2005.

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego, 1997 to 2001.
 

Education

Ph.D., Political Science, Harvard University, 1997.

B.Econ., First Class Honours, University of Sydney, 1989.
 

Awards and Prizes

William H. Riker Prize for the best book published in political economy in 2001-02, awarded by the Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association in 2003.

Helen Dwight Reid Award for the best dissertation in the field of international relations in 1996-97, awarded by the American Political Science Association in 1998.

Toppan Prize for the best dissertation in political science in 1997, awarded by Harvard University in 1997.

Menzies Award for 1990-91, awarded by the Australian Menzies Foundation in 1990.

Commonwealth Bank Prize in Government for 1989, awarded by the University of Sydney in 1989.

Public Service of New South Wales Prize for 1988, awarded by the University of Sydney in 1988.

Emeritus Professor F.A. Bland Prize for 1987, awarded by the University of Sydney in1987.

G.S. Caird Prize in Government for 1987, awarded by the University of Sydney in 1987.
 

Books

Hiscox, Michael J. High Stakes: The Political Economy of U.S. Trade Sanctions, 1950-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, forthcoming.

Hiscox, Michael J. International Trade and Political Conflict: Commerce, Coalitions, and Mobility. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Translated and published in China by Renmin University Press 2005.
 

Articles

Hiscox, Michael J. Will Trade Be a Partisan Issue Again (and why isn’t it already)? Trade and the American Political Parties, Legislative Studies Quarterly, forthcoming, 2009.

Hiscox, Michael J. Varieties of Capitalism: Birds of a Different Feather, or Not? Annual Review of Political Science, forthcoming, 2009.

Hainmueller, Jens and Michael J. Hiscox. Educated Preferences: Explaining Individual Attitudes toward Immigration in Europe, International Organization, Vol. 61, No. 2 (Spring, 2007): 399-442.

Hiscox, Michael J. Through a Glass and Darkly: Framing Effects and Individuals’ Attitudes towards International Trade, International Organization, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Summer, 2006): 755-780.

Hainmueller, Jens and Michael J. Hiscox. Learning to Love Globalization: The Effects of Education on Individual Attitudes towards International Trade, International Organization, Vol. 60, No. 2 (Spring, 2006): 469-498.

Hiscox, Michael J. International Capital Mobility and Trade Politics: Capital Flows and Political Coalitions, Economics and Politics, Vol. 16, No. 3 (November, 2004): 253-285.

Hiscox, Michael J. Commerce, Coalitions, and Factor Mobility: Evidence from Congressional Votes on Trade Legislation, American Political Science Review, Vol. 96, No. 3 (September, 2002): 593-608.

Hiscox, Michael J. Interindustry Factor Mobility and Technological Change: Evidence on Wage and Profit Dispersion across U.S. Industries, 1820 and 1990, Journal of Economic History, Vol. 62, No. 2 (June, 2002): 383-416.

Hiscox, Michael J. Class versus Industry Cleavages: Inter-Industry Factor Mobility and the Politics of Trade, International Organization, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Winter, 2001): 1-46.

Hiscox, Michael J. The Magic Bullet? The RTAA, Institutional Reform, and Trade Liberalization, International Organization, Vol. 53, No. 4 (Fall, 1999): 669-698.
 

Book Chapters and Other Publications

Hiscox, Michael J., Claire Schwartz, and Michael Toffel. Evaluating the Impact of SA8000 Certification. In SA8000 The First Decade: Implementation, Influence, and Impact, Deborah Leipziger (ed.). London: Greenleaf, 2009, forthcoming.

Hiscox, Michael J. El Comercio Justo como un enfoque para administrar la globalización, Ensayos de economia cafetera, Vol. 22, 2007: 55-66.

Hiscox, Michael J. and Scott Kastner, Trade Policy Openness, Government Spending, and Democratic Consolidation. In Global Democracy and Its Difficulties, Anthony Langlois (ed.). New York: Routledge, 2008.

Hiscox, Michael J. The Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policies. In Global Political Economy, revised edition, John Ravenhill (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Hiscox, Michael J. The Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policies. In Global Political Economy, John Ravenhill (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Hiscox, Michael J. Political Integration and Disintegration in the Global Economy. In Globalizing Authority, Miles Kahler and David Lake (eds.). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Hiscox, Michael J. National Politics in a Global Economy: The Domestic Sources of U.S. Trade Policy, Political Science Quarterly, Fall 2000.
 

Research Grants

Humanity United Foundation grant, Consumer Demand for Ethically Labeled Products, 2008-09.

Weatherhead Research Grant, The Immigration Policy Project, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 2008-09.

Institute for Quantitative Social Science Grant, The Immigration Policy Project, 2008-09.

Weatherhead Initiative Grant, The Political Economy of Globalization: How Firms, Workers, and Policymakers Are Responding to International Economic Integration (with Margarita Estevez-Abe, Richard Freeman, and Robert Lawrence), Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 2005-09.

Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences, Attitudes toward the International Criminal Court (with Beth Simmons), 2004.

Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences, Framing Effects, Information, and Attitudes toward International Trade, 2003.

Smith Richardson Foundation Grant, The Political Economy of Economic Sanctions: Political Conflict over the Use of American Economic Power, 2000-01.

Hellman Foundation Grant, The Political Economy of U.S. Sanctions, 2000.

Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Grant, New Research in International Relations (with Barbara Walter), University of California, 1999.

University of California Committee on Research Awards, (various projects) 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000.

Harvard-MIT Research Training Group in Positive Political Economy Fellowship, Interindustry Factor Mobility and the Political Economy of Trade, 1996.

A.W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, The Trade War at Home, 1995-96.

A.W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship, Trade and Political Parties, 1994.
 

Selected Professional Service

Academic Advisory Committee, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney, 2008-

Benjamin E. Lippincott Award Committee, American Political Science Association, 2007.

Editorial Board Member, Polity, 2006-

Editor, The Political Economist, Newsletter of the Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association, 2000-2005.

Mancur Olson Award Committee, Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association, 1999.

Reviewer for the following presses: Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Addison-Wesley, and St. Martin’s Press.

Reviewer for the following journals: American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Political Science Quarterly, Political Analysis, Journal of Politics, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Journal of International Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic History, and Comparative Studies in Society and History.
 

Selected University Service

Australian Studies Committee, 2007-

Executive Committee, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 2005-

Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Political Economy and Government, 2004-

Standing Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, 2001-
 

Teaching

Graduate Classes:
 Research Workshop in Political Economy
 International Political Economy
 Strategies of Political Inquiry
 International Relations Field Seminar
 Game Theory and International Relations

Undergraduate Classes:
 The Politics of International Trade
 Globalization and American Foreign Economic Policy
 Conflict and Cooperation in International Politics
 International Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern World
 

Related Professional Experience

Macquarie Bank, Sydney, Australia. Economic and Financial Research Analyst, 1989-90.