Keith Darden

Keith Darden, Associate Professor of Political Science, received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in December of 2000, and teaches and advises students in the areas of International Relations, Comparative Politics, and qualitative methods. His primary avenues of research concern the role of economic, religious and national ideas in shaping political order, but he has also written about patterns of insurgent violence, political corruption, non-democratic regimes and other topics pertaining to post-Communist Eurasia. His first book, Economic Liberalism and Its Rivals: The Formation of International Institutions Among the Post-Soviet States was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. His article, “The Great Divide: Literacy, Nationalism, and the Communist Collapse” (with Anna Grzymala-Busse, in World Politics, Oct. 2007) received the Luebbert Award from the American Political Science Association in 2008. He is currently finishing his second book manuscript, provisionally entitled “The Causes and Consequences of Enduring National Loyalties,” which explores how the national identities initially introduced to a community through schools account for subsequent patterns of voting, secession, and armed resistance to foreign occupation. Prof. Darden is co-editor of the Cambridge University Press Series on Problems in International Politics and has been a Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum in Berlin, the Davis Center for Russian Studies, and the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Prof. Darden takes great pleasure in teaching and was awarded the Lex Hixon ’63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences, an annual endowed award given to a single faculty member across all fields of the social sciences.

Campus address: 115 Prospect Street, Room 434
Phone: 432-5244
Email: keith.darden@yale.edu