CURRICULUM VITAE Christopher K. Ansell Department of Political Science 210 Barrows Hall ...

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Christopher K. Ansell
Department of Political Science
210 Barrows Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1950

PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE

Professor. Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, July 2011-present.
Fields: Public Policy and Administration (organization theory; governance; regulation); Comparative
Politics (Western Europe & advanced industrial democracies).

Associate Professor. Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. 2000-2011

Assistant Professor. Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. 1993-2000.

Instructor, University of Chicago, winter 1991 (Political Economy) and spring 1992 (West
European Parties and Party Systems).

Research Analyst, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, November 1979-September
1984.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Chicago, Department of Political Science, June, 1993.
Dissertation: French Workers Between Party and Union, 1872-1922.

M.A., University of Chicago, Department of Political Science, 1986.

B.A., University of Virginia, Environmental Sciences, 1979.

UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS

Editorial Roles

U.S. Editor, Public Administration: An International Quarterly (Wiley-Blackwell
Publications), 2010-2016; editorial advisory board, 2008-2010
Editorial Boards: Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2011-present; Risk,
Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, 2017-

Co-Editor (with Jacob Torfing) of a special edition of Politics & Policy on How does
Collaborative Governance Scale? (vol. 43, no. 3, 2015).

Co-Editor (with Mark Bevir), Studies in Governance, UC Berkeley International and Area
Studies Book Series; published in conjunction with the University of California Press. 2009-
2012

Co-Editor (with Arjen Boin) of an edition of the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis
Management on the work of Todd La Porte, vol. 19, no. 1: 1-2. 2011.

Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of Governance. Sage Publications. 2007.

Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 1998-2000

Institutional Leadership

Advisory Board Member, Coordination, Capacity and Legitimacy: Organizing for Climate
Change, Immigration, and the Police Project. Uni Research Rokkan Center, University of
Berkeley. 2016-

Director, Travers Program on Ethics and Accountability in Government, UC Berkeley, 2007-
2013

International Advisory Board, Center for Metropolitan Studies, CEBRAP, Sao Paulo, Brazil,
2006-2012

Executive Council Member, Political Networks Section, APSA, 2010-11; steering committee
member (and founding member), Networks in Political Science, 2008-2010.

Executive Committee Member, Energy and Resources Graduate Group, 2005-6

European Union Colloquium Chair, 1997-2000, Center for Western European Studies,
University of California, Berkeley

Section Representative for Methods & Theory and Social Networks Sections, 1996-1998,
Social Science History Association

Board Member: 1997-1998, Center for Culture, Organizations, and Politics, University of
California Berkeley

Advisory Committee Member, 1996-1998, Center for Western European Studies, University
of California, Berkeley
Grants and Awards:

Peder Sather Institute for Advanced Study awards: “Governing World Politics: Dissecting the
Role of Global Governance Architectures (with Jarle Trondal),” 2016; “Organizing for
Societal Security and Crisis Management” (with Per Lægreid), 2015; Governance in
Turbulent Times (with Jarle Trondal), 2014.

Norway House Foundation, “Organizing for Societal Security and Crisis Management” (with
Per Lægreid) 2015

Honorary Doctorate (Doctoral Degree in Administration, Honoris Causi, Roskilde University,
Denmark, awarded September 20, 2013

IBM Business of Government Grant (with Ann Keller; 2013)

Presidential Chair Fellows, 2012-2013 (UC Berkeley)

Principal Investigator (with Ann Keller and Art Reingold), “The Global Infectious Disease
Response System,” National Science Foundation, September 2008-August 2012, $725,000.

Grant Recipient, Institute of Global Cooperation and Conflict, for “Far Flung Networks:
Rapid Deployment and Customized Response,” 2007

Grant recipient, Kaufman Foundation, “Network Leverage,” 2006

Nominee for the Graduate Division’s Faculty Mentor Award, 2004

1999-2000 Distinguished Teaching Award, Division of Social Sciences, University of
California, Berkeley

Junior Faculty Research Grant, University of California, Berkeley, spring 1994

Harper Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1989-90

Morton Grodzins Fellowship in recognition of outstanding academic achievement, University
of Chicago, Department of Political Science, 1985-88

Research Groups & Conference Organizing:

Panel co-organizer (with Per Ola Öberg), “Collaborative Governance and Deliberative
Policymaking in Comparative Perspective,” 3rd International Conference on Public Policy,
June 28-30, 2017. Singapore
Subtheme Co-Chair (with Peter Scholten), “International Migration, Changing Demographics
and the Rise of Intense Nationalism,” Transatlantic Dialogue, Miami, April 5-8 2017,

Co-organizer (with Per Lægreid), Organizing Societal Security, sponsored by the Peder Sather
Center, UC Berkeley, Norway House Foundation, and the University of Bergen, April 29-30,
2016, UC Berkeley

Co-organizer (with Arjen Boin), Complex Transboundary Problems: EU and US
Perspectives, sponsored by the UCB EU Centre of Excellence and Utrecht University,
October 18-19, 2013, UC Berkeley.

Co-founder (with Jacob Torfing), the Global Governance Club, an international network of
scholars from Europe, the U.S., China, Australia, and Brazil working on governance issues.
First meeting in Denmark 2012; second meeting in Netherlands, 2013; third meeting in the
UK, 2014

Co-organizer (with Arjen Boin, Sanneke Kuiper, and Todd La Porte) of the Berkeley-Utrecht
Conference on Complex Systems, Pernicious Instability, and Institutional Resilience: Urgent
Challenges for Public Administration, Utrecht, Netherlands, June 11-13, 2012 and co-
organizer (with Todd La Porte) of the Colloquium on Complexity and Public Organization at
UC Berkeley, Spring Semester 2012.

Co-Chair (with Jacob Torfing) of Managing Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector (3
panels) at the 25th International Research Society for Public Management conference. Rome
Italy, April 11-13, 2012.

Co-Chair (with Shirin Åhlback Öberg) of the Politics & Expertise Workshop, at the Nordic
Political Science Conference, August 9-12, 2011, Vasa Finland.

Organizer of Six Travers Public Affairs Conferences: California’s Energy Future (2013),
Managing the Delta (2012) Financing California (2010), How to Reform California (2009),
Protecting U.S. Consumers (2008), and The Future of California Media (2007)

Co-Organizer (with Ann Keller and Paul Schulman), The Future of Public Organization,
University of California, Berkeley, April 12-14, 2007

Co-Organizer (with David Vogel), Convenor Group on European Food Safety Regulation,
2002-4; funded by the Institute of European Studies

Co-Organizer (with Michael Cohen and Karl Weick), Reading Dewey: Augmenting the
Foundations of Organizational Studies, funded by the University of Michigan’s
Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies (ICOS), October 24, 2003, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Co-Organizer (with Mark Bevir) of the Interpretive Politics Group, Department of Political
Science, 2002-3, 2003-4

Organizer, Working Group on Comparative Political Sociology (Center for Culture,
Organization, and Politics, 2001-2)

Co-organizer (with Giuseppe Di Palma), Convenor Group on Changing Center-Periphery
Relations (1998-2000), sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, UC
Berkeley

Organizer of the Comparative Federalism Roundtable: Europe, Germany, and the United
States (held November 11, 1997; Co-sponsored by IGS, CWES, CGES)

University and Professional Service:

Departmental Service: Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee, 2000-1, 2001-2, 2002-3,
2003-4, 2010-11, 2011-12 and committee member, 2005-6, 2006-7, 2016-17; Post-
Communism recruitment committee 2003-4; IR recruitment committee 2000-1; Global Metro
Studies recruitment committee (representing Political Science on a university-wide
committee), 2006-7; Graduate Affairs Committee, 1997-1999

Grant & Award Committees: Chair, 2013 Book Award Committee, Political Networks
Section, APSA; Award Committee, Ernst Haas Award for the Best Dissertation on European
Politics, APSA European Politics & Society Group, 2005 & 2009; German Marshal Fund
Grant Reviewer (2002-3); Chair, Strauss Scholarship for Public Service Committee, 2000-
2001 and committee member, 1998-9, 1999-2000; Truman Scholarship Committee, 2000-
2001; Sharlin and Bendix Award Committees (Institute for International Studies), 1999-2000,
2001-2; 2006-7 (Sharlin only), 2014; Judge, Bennet Prize in Political Science, 1998-9;
Interviewer for 1994-1995 University of California Regents' and Chancellors' Scholarships;
German and European Studies Center awards for graduate research assistance, June 1996-7,
1997-1998

Professional and Civic Service: member of the Independent External Evaluation Team for the
Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, 2009; expert testimony, Little Hoover
Commission investigation on School Facilities Governance, Sacramento California, May 24,
2007; funding proposal reviewer, San Francisco Department of Children, Youth & Their
Families, Spring 2007; Jefferson Elementary School, Berkeley Unified School District, Site
Committee member, 2000-2001

University Service: committee member, Barbara Weinstock Memorial Lectures on the Morals
of Trade Committee, 2015-16, 2016-present; UC Institute of European Studies Director
Search Committee, 2014; Faculty Representative, Commercial and Student Services Board,
2012-2014; Co-Chair (with Malcolm Potts/Jane Mauldon), Committee on the Protection of
Human Subjects, 2007-9; committee member, 2006-2007; member, Graduate Council, UC
Berkeley Faculty Senate Committee, 2004-5, 2005-6

Visiting & Affiliated Scholar:

Visiting Professor, Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France), May 15-June 14,
2015

Visiting Professor, Hong Kong University, March 22-28, 2015 and January 9-16, 2016

Professor, Partnership for African Social and Governance Research, Introduction to Social
Network short course, Accra, Johannesburg, and Dar es Salaam (2012), Nairobi (2013), Accra
(2014), Nairobi (2015), Nairobi (2017).

Visiting Professor, Department of Government, Uppsala Universitet (Sweden), Spring 2010,
2011, 2012, 2013 and Fellow at the Uppsala Forum on Peace and Democracy, Spring 2010

Visiting Researcher, Policy Unit, H1N1 Response Team, U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, November 2009

Affiliated Faculty Member of the Energy and Resources Graduate Group and the Health
Service and Policy Analysis Graduate Group (School of Public Health)

Invited Visitor at the Santa Fe Institute, Program on the Emergence of States and
Markets, June 1998

PUBLICATIONS

Books

How does Collaborative Governance Scale? (editor, with Jacob Torfing). Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
Forthcoming.

Governance in Turbulent Times. (editor, with Jarle Trondal and Morten Øgård). Oxford University
Press. 2017.

Handbook on Theories of Governance. (editor, with Jacob Torfing). Edgar Elgar Publishing. 2016.

Public Innovation through Collaboration and Design. (editor, with Jacob Torfing). Routledge 2014.

Pragmatist Democracy: Evolutionary Learning as Public Philosophy. Oxford University Press.
2011.
What’s the Beef? The Contested Governance of European Food Safety. (editor, with David Vogel).
MIT Press. 2006.

On Restructuring Territoriality: Europe and North America (editor, with Giuseppe Di Palma).
Cambridge University Press. 2004.

Schism and Solidarity in Social Movements: The Politics of Labor in the French Third Republic.
Cambridge University Press (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences Series). 2001.

Articles (Journals and Chapters)

“Collaborative Platforms as a Governance Strategies (with Alison Gash), JPART, forthcoming 2017.

“Governing Turbulence: An Organizational-Institutional Agenda,” Perspectives in Public
Management and Governance, forthcoming 2017.

“Experimentalist Governance in Global Public Health: UNAIDS and Its Place in the Global AIDS
Regime” (with Gabrielle Goldstein), American Journal of International and Comparative Law,
forthcoming 2017.

“Taming Deep Uncertainty: The Potential of Pragmatist Principles for Understanding and Improving
Strategic Crisis Management” (with Arjen Boin), Administration & Society, forthcoming 2017.

“The Diversity of Experimentation in the Experimenting Society” (with Martin Bartenberger) in Ibo
van de Poel, Lotte Asveld, Donna C. Mehos (Eds.), Experimentation Beyond the Laboratory: New
Perspectives on Technology in Society. Routledge. Forthcoming 2017.

“The Network Approach” (with Jacob Torfing), Chapter 7 in Klaus Brummer, Sebastian Harnisch,
Kai Oppermann, and Diana Panke (Eds.), Foreign Policy Analysis and Public Policy Approaches:
Bridging the Gap, forthcoming 2017.

“Improving policy implementation through collaborative policymaking” (with Eva Sørensen and
Jacob Torfing) Policy & Politics, 45(3), 467-486. 2017.

“How Learning Aggregates: A Social Network Analysis of Learning between Swedish
Municipalities” (with Martin Lundin and Per Ola Öberg) Local Government Studies. 2017.

“Learning Networks among Swedish Municipalities: Is Sweden a Small World?” in Glückler J,
Lazega E, Hammer I (ed). Knowledge and Networks. Vol 11. Knowledge and Space. Berlin: Springer
(with Martin Lundin and Per Ola Öberg). 2017.

“Tackling Unruly Public Problems” (with M. Bartenberger) in Governance in Turbulent Times. (C.
Ansell, J. Trondal and M. Øgård, Eds.). Oxford University Press. 2017.

“Turbulence, Adaptation and Change” in Governance in Turbulent Times. (C. Ansell, J. Trondal and
M. Øgård, Eds.). Oxford University Press. 2017.

“An Organizational-Institutional Approach to Governance” (with D. Levi-Faur and J. Trondal) in
Governance in Turbulent Times. (C. Ansell, J. Trondal and M. Øgård, Eds.). Oxford University
Press. 2017.

“Strengthening political leadership and policy innovation through the expansion of collaborative
forms of governance,” Public Management Review, 1-18. (with Jacob Torfing). 2016.

“’Pragmatic complexity’: A new foundation for moving beyond ‘evidence-based policy making’?”
Policy Studies, 1-19 (with Robert Geyer). 2016.

“Who says Networks, says Oligarchy? Oligarchies as Rich Club Networks,” Connections, 35, 2: 20-
32 (with Renata Bichir and Shi Zhou). 2016.

“Varieties of Experimentalism,” Ecological Economics, vol. 130: 64-73 (with Martin Bartenberger).
2016.

“Collaborative Governance as Creative Problem-Solving,” chapter 2 in J. Torfing and Peter
Triantafilou. Enhancing Public Innovation by Transforming Public Governance. Cambridge
University Press. Pp. 35-53. 2016.

“Pragmatism in Organization Studies: Meeting the Challenge of a Dynamic and Complex World,”
Organization Science, on-line version, October 2015 (with Arjen Boin and Moshe Farjoun).

“When Collaborative Governance Scales Up: Lessons from Global Public Health about Compound
Collaboration,” Policy & Politics, on-line version, June 2015

“How Does Collaborative Governance Scale?” Policy & Politics, on-line version, June 2015 (with
Jacob Torfing).

“Dynamic Conservatism: How Institutions Change to Remain the Same,” in Matthew Kraatz (ed.),
Institutions and Ideals: Philip Selznick’s Legacy for Organizational Studies, Research in the
Sociology of Organizations, vol. 44: 89-119 (with Arjen Boin and Moshe Farjoun). 2015.

“Regulatory Capitalism and its Discontents: Bilateral Interdependence and the Adaptability of
Regulatory Styles,” Regulation & Governance (with John Yasuda), 2104.

“Adapting the Incident Command Model for Knowledge-Based Crises,” IBM Center for the
Business of Government, Collaboration Series (with Ann Keller). May 2014.

“Ecological Explanation,” in Gerald Berk, Dennis Galvan, and Victoria Hattam (eds). Unstructuring
Politics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2013.

“What is a Democratic Experiment?” Contemporary Pragmatism, 9, 2. 2012: 159-180.

“Improving Pandemic Response: A Sensemaking Perspective on the Spring 2009 H1N1 Pandemic”
(with Ann Keller, Mathilde Bourrier, Sahai Burrowes, Mark Hunter, Art Reingold, and Teresa
Sullivan), Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy. 3, 2. 2012.

“The Promise and Challenge of Global Network Governance: The Global Outbreak Alert and
Response Network,” (with Egbert Sondorp and Robert Stevens), Global Governance. 18: 317-337.
2012.

“Stewards, Mediators, and Catalysts: Toward a Model of Collaborative Leadership,” (with Alison
Gash), The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal, 17, 1, 2012.

“Circuits of Regulation: Transatlantic Perspectives on Persistent Organic Pollutants and Endocrine
Disrupting Chemicals (with Jörg Balsiger), in Jo Swinnen and David Vogel (eds.), Transatlantic
Regulatory Cooperation. Edward Elgar Publishers. 2011.

“Managing Transboundary Crises: Identifying the Building Blocks of an Effective Response
System,” (with Arjen Boin and Ann Keller). Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 18, 4:
195-207. 2010.

“How to Reform a Reform Agenda: Outreach, Agenda Expansion, and Brokerage in Urban School
Reform” (with Sarah Reckhow and Andrew Kelly). Policy Studies Journal 37, 4: 717-743, 2009.

“Collaboration is Not Enough: Virtual Cycles of Reform in Transportation Policy (with Margaret
Weir and Jane Rongerude), Urban Affairs Quarterly, 44, 4: 455-89, 2009.

“Collaborative Governance in Theory and Practice” (with Alison Gash) Journal of Public
Administration Theory and Research, 18, 4: 543-71, 2008.

“Emergent Institutionalism: The United Kingdom’s Response to the BSE Epidemic,” (with Jane
Gingrich) in Deborah Gibbons (ed.), Communicable Crises: Prevention, Response, and Recovery in
the Global Arena. Information Age Press. 2007

“Pragmatist Philosophy and Interactive Research,” in Gunnar Gjelstrup and Eva Sorenson (eds.).
Public Administration in Transition. Copenhagen: DJOF Publishing. 2007.

“The Contested Governance of European Food Safety” (with David Vogel) in Ansell and Vogel
(eds.). What’s the Beef? MIT Press. 2006.

“Protesting Food: NGO’s and Political Mobilization in Europe” (with Rahsaan Maxwell and Daniela
Sicurelli) in Ansell and Vogel (eds.), What’s the Beef? MIT Press. 2006.
“Aymmetries of Governance,” in Ansell and Vogel (eds.), What’s the Beef? MIT Press. 2006.

“Territorial Representation: Similar Dynamics of Federalism?” (with Rebecca Chen). Nicolas Jabko
and Craig Parsons (eds.) With US or Against US: European Trends in American Perspective. Oxford
University Press. 2005.

“Restructuring Authority and Territoriality,” (Chapter 1) and “Territoriality, Authority, and
Democracy” (Chapter 12) in Ansell and Di Palma (eds.) Restructuring Territoriality. 2004.

“Reforming the Administrative State” (with Jane Gingrich) in Bruce Cain, Russell J. Dalton, and
Susan Scarrow (eds.). Democracy Transformed? Expanding Political Opportunities in Advanced
Industrial Democracies. Oxford University Press. 2003.

“Trends in Decentralization” (with Jane Gingrich) in Bruce Cain, Russell J. Dalton, and Susan
Scarrow (eds.) Democracy Transformed? Expanding Political Opportunities in Advanced Industrial
Democracies. Oxford University Press. 2003.

“Community Embeddedness and Collaborative Governance in the San Francisco Bay Area
Environmental Movement,” in Mario Diani and Doug McAdam (eds.) Social Movements and
Networks: Relational Approaches to Collective Action. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003.

“The Variable Geometry of European Regional Development” (with Vanna Gonzales and Conor
O’Dwyer) in Steven Weber (ed.). Globalization and the European Political Economy. New York:
Columbia University Press. 2001.

“The Networked Polity: Regional Development in Western Europe,” Governance, 13, 3: July 2000.

“The Art of Being Indispensable: Noncharismatic Personalism in Contemporary Political Parties,”
(with M. Steven Fish). Comparative Political Studies. 1999.

“Organizing International Politics: Sovereignty and Open Systems” (with Steven Weber).
International Political Science Review. 1999.

“The Mass Production of Craft Unionism: Exploring the Sources of Workers’ Solidarity in France
and the US” (with Antoine Joseph), Politics & Society (December, 1998).

"Symbolic Networks: The Realignment of the French Working Class, 1887-1894,” American Journal
of Sociology, Vol. 103, no. 2, September 1997, 359-90.

"Dual Networks in the European Union," (with Craig Parsons and Keith Darden) Journal of Common
Market Studies, Vol. 35, No. 3, September 1997, 347-375.

"Bosses of the City Unite! Labor Politics and Political Machine Consolidation, 1870-1910" (with
Arthur Burris), Studies in American Political Development, Vol. 11, Spring 1997, 1-43.