People
Kenwick, Michael
- Michael Kenwick
- ASSOCIATE Professor
- Subfield: International Relations, Methods, Doctoral Faculty
- Office: 309 Hickman Hall
- Phone: 848-632-1830
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- Specialties:
Conflict Processes, Civil-Military Relations, Border Politics, Quantitative Methods
- Graduate Content:
- Program in International Relations
- Bio:
Michael Kenwick received his BA from the University of Illinois and his MA and PhD from The Pennsylvania State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at The University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House.
Professor Kenwick's research is in the area of international relations with emphases in conflict processes, civil-military relations, and border politics. Broadly, his work develops novel measurement and research design strategies to better understand whether and how states respond to contemporary threats to national security. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and has been published in a variety of academic journals including the American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, International Organization, and Political Analysis.
- Teaching:
Undergraduate Coursework
Introduction to International Relations 790:102
American Foreign Policy 790:319
Graduate Coursework
Advanced Topics in Multivariate Statistics 16:790:678 - Publications:
Michael R. Kenwick and Sarah Maxey. 2021 “You and Whose Army? How Civilian Leaders Leverage the Military’s Prestige to Shape Public Opinion.” The Journal of Politics. (Forthcoming).
Beth A. Simmons and Michael R. Kenwick. 2021. “Border Orientation in a Globalizing World.” American Journal of Political Science. (Forthcoming).
Michael R. Kenwick, and Beth A. Simmons. 2020. “Pandemic Response as Border Politics.” International Organization 74(S1): E36-E58.
Kenwick, Michael R. 2020. “Self-Reinforcing Civilian Control: A Measurement-Based Analysis of Civil-Military Relations” International Studies Quarterly 64(1): 71-84.
Fariss, Christopher J., Michael R. Kenwick, and Kevin Reuning. 2020. “A Robust Measurement Model of Human Rights Respect with Country-Year Count Processes.” Journal of Peace Research 57(6) 801–814.