I am an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Memorial University and teach courses on development, gender, globalization, and research methods.
I research the political sociology of international development and globalization. My current program of research has two concentrations: (1) foreign aid as a transnational process of development; and (2) gender and political power in the developing world.
My current SSHRC-funded Insight Grant, "Developing Conformity: Foreign Aid and the Diffusion of Global Norms" (2016-2021), employs cross-national statistical analysis to examine the role of foreign aid and other forms of development finance in the diffusion of global norms.
In 2016-2017 I was a Senior Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
I am interested in working with graduate students with research interests in the sociology of development and globalization, especially on topics related to foreign aid.
Fall 2017 Office Hours
Tuesday 13:00-15:00; Thursday 9:00-11:00
Contact Me
Department of Sociology
Memorial University
St. John's, NL
Canada A1C 5S7
E:
T: (709) 864 4467
F: (709) 864 2075
Follow @liamswiss