Thomas Pepinsky
{{Short description|American political scientist}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = Thomas Pepinsky
| education = {{unbulleted list|Brown University|Yale University}}
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1979}}
| citizenship = American
| discipline = Political science
| sub_discipline = Comparative politics, international political economy
}}
Thomas B. Pepinsky (born 1979) is an American political scientist. He specializes in comparative politics and international political economy, with a regional focus on Maritime Southeast Asia.{{Cite web |title=Thomas Pepinsky {{!}} Lowy Institute |url=https://www.lowyinstitute.org/people/contributor/bio/thomas-pepinsky |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=www.lowyinstitute.org}} He is the Walter F. LaFeber Professor of Government and Director of the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University.{{Cite web |title=Thomas Pepinsky {{!}} Department of Government |url=https://government.cornell.edu/thomas-pepinsky |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=government.cornell.edu |language=en}} He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of East Asian Studies.{{Cite web |title=Editorial board |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-east-asian-studies/information/about-this-journal/editorial-board |access-date=2024-10-08 |website=Cambridge Core |language=en}}
Early life and education
Pepinsky was born in 1979. He received a Bachelor of Arts in linguistics and international relations from Brown University in 2001 and completed his PhD in political science at Yale University in 2007.{{Cite web |last=Pepinsky |first=Thomas |date=April 11, 2022 |title=CV of Thomas B. Pepinsky |url=https://uc88af3cd29950c8bce86bc4c756.dl.dropboxusercontent.com/cd/0/inline2/BuW3HS1yrwR8T73qKWMfPGoM_KUG_frC93JUdDV07Wyp7K55QcPiBevO-bgbL8x7N-JR9_VtU9xA0D5yg3dE2fLxnXDxUOyujgmZEooB5XGDWIJUFoFTBmv2IlIw_bhXwv9htNgQdU0JdjNCBLBHBG4QWhyWlBW2tOjDAdOT-ey5wzJ6JYGraStvO5KbM50HcTBOpMAgI9nReAYtGcTisoktThsjJU00vuv8weiUV_2Utzg8tfyGHThyNNoln_xz-SJX_9gro2nNgkx61kum6a-iXuPxm3pAKeUUeUxhzveirRc2ZBxWpKhOY7SzTBxXOZo9VdN94Xcs_WnqPDZCiKjAG_SKmHp2PZyr8bO_dPjx7HvbR7OlsCS2Tg3wpDH9gYzf-zylFZ3OXMCV9tdI-ClqVCe_nV8bnT0Y_CE2Uf3Dlg/file}} His wife is a musician who teaches at Cornell.{{Cite web |title=Department of Music |url=https://music.cornell.edu/juliana-may-pepinsky |access-date=2022-12-07 |website=music.cornell.edu |language=en}}
Career
From 2007 to 2008 Pepinsky was Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. He moved to Cornell University in 2008, where he has taught since.{{Cite web |date=2018-10-31 |title=Thomas Pepinsky |url=https://www.brookings.edu/experts/thomas-pepinsky/ |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=Brookings |language=en-US}} Since 2021 he has held the Walter F. LaFeber Professorship at Cornell.{{Cite web |title=30 Arts & Sciences faculty honored with endowed professorships {{!}} Department of Government |url=https://government.cornell.edu/news/30-arts-sciences-faculty-honored-endowed-professorships |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=government.cornell.edu |language=en}}
Pepinsky serves as Executive Vice President of the Association for Analytical Learning on Islam and Muslim Societies and serves on the executive board of the Southeast Asian Research Group. He is fluent in Indonesian.
Since 2018 Pepinsky has been a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Publications
= Articles =
- Modeling Spatial Heterogeneity and Historical Persistence: Nazi Concentration Camps and Contemporary Intolerance, American Political Science Review, March 2, 2023 (co-authored with Sara Wallace Goodman and Conrad Ziller){{Cite journal |last=Pepinsky |first=Thomas B. |last2=Goodman |first2=Sara Wallace |last3=Ziller |first3=Conrad |date=February 2024 |title=Modeling Spatial Heterogeneity and Historical Persistence: Nazi Concentration Camps and Contemporary Intolerance |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/modeling-spatial-heterogeneity-and-historical-persistence-nazi-concentration-camps-and-contemporary-intolerance/A9AD98520C6C86972927B4EAA1FE379A |journal=American Political Science Review |language=en |volume=118 |issue=1 |pages=519–528 |doi=10.1017/S0003055423000072 |issn=0003-0554}}
References
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External links
- {{Google Scholar ID|id=kUbh19wAAAAJ}}
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Category:American political scientists
Category:Brown University alumni
Category:Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Category:Cornell University faculty
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