Hillary G. Corwin, Ph.D.

Political Economist and Quantitative Researcher


Curriculum vitae


Hillary G. Corwin, Ph.D.

Political Economist and Quantitative Researcher


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Hillary G. Corwin, Ph.D.

Political Economist and Quantitative Researcher


Curriculum vitae



About Me


Hillary Corwin recently received her Ph.D.  from the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in international relations and quantitative political methodology. 

Her research applies advanced econometric and causal inference methods to understand complex interactions between international development, human rights, and political economy. Her dissertation, titled “Coercive and Catalytic Strategies for Promoting Human Rights,” investigates how OECD donors choose between strategic options for promoting human rights. In it, she argues that donors’ strategic choices are determined by how state violence and their policy response affects their interests and whether leaders in the recipient state are actively pursuing outside options for development finance. Her research has been published in World Development.
Hillary holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in International Political Economy from the University of Texas at Dallas. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D., Hillary worked with the United States Agency for International Development’s Latin American and Caribbean Bureau providing research assistance on projects related to vulnerable populations and private sector partnerships. During her Ph.D., she worked as a team leader in the Innovations for Peace and Development lab analyzing, cleaning, and anonymizing microdata from international agricultural development studies conducted on United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and World Bank grants.

Projects


Ph.D. Thesis Data Preparation and Analysis


This provides a broad overview of the dissertation project and links out to a series of associated projects that went into the data preparation, visualization, and analysis for the dissertation.


Preparing the Data for the Disseration


Cleaning and merging important variables and creating the key independent variables of interest.


Analyzing the relationship between state violence and foreign aid


Tobit and OLS models of the relationships between state violence and foreign aid flows.


The effect of Belt and Road Initiative agreements on western foreign aid


This project uses doubly-robust difference-in-difference models with multiple treatment periods to investigate how the 80 BRI agreements signed from 2013-2018 affect the composition of western donors' foreign aid.

Teaching


The United States in Global Politics

Assistant Instructor (Instructor of Record)

In-person undergraduate course using collective action theory to trace the role of the United States in building and participating in international organizations and agreements. Topics include economic integration, migration, and collective security.


Human Rights and World Politics

Teaching Assistant

Online upper-division undergraduate course examining human rights in contemporary world politics. The course focuses on the legal, political, and policy dimensions of international human rights through the United Nations.


International Political Economy

Teaching Assistant

In-person, upper-division undergraduate course covering the politics of international trade, investment, and multinational corporations.


United States Foreign Policy

Supplemental Instructor and Teaching Assistant

Online undergraduate course covering U.S. grand strategy, great power politics, domestic and international institutions, and an historical overview of U.S. foreign policy from independence to present.


United States National Security

Teaching Assistant

Online lower-division undergraduate course (2000 students) covering U.S. foreign policies and military actions in the countries of Southwest Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa from 1979-2021.


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