Education

• Ph.D. (2000), Department of Government, Georgetown University. Dissertation, Major Comprehensive (Comparative Politics) and Minor Comprehensives (Political Theory and German and European Studies), all awarded with Distinction.
• M.A. (2000) In German and European Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University (completed jointly with Ph.D).
• M.A. (1993) In Politics, University College Dublin. Awarded with First Class Honours.
• B.A. (1991) In Politics (First Class Honours) and Economics (Second Class Honours Grade One), University College Dublin.
• ICPSR (Courses taken in Categorical Data Analysis and Rational Choice).

Post-Doctoral Employment

• Associate Professor, Department of Political Science/Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, July 2009-.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science/Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, September 2004-May 2009.
• Assistant Professor for International Political Economy, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto. July 2002-August 2004.
• Senior Research Fellow, Max-Planck Project Group on the Law of Common Goods, Bonn, Germany. January 2000-June 2002.

Classes Taught

• The George Washington University
  • Fall 2008 Courses: “The Theory of International Relations,” and “The Politics of the Internet.”
  • Spring 2008 Courses:“Privacy, Security and Technology: The New Agenda,” and “Advanced International Relations Theory.”
  • Fall 2007 Courses:“The Politics of the Internet” and “The Internet and International Politics.”
  • Spring 2007 Courses: “Security, Privacy and Technology: The New Agenda,” and “The Politics of Institutions.”
  • Fall 2006 Courses: “The Internet and International Politics,” and “The Politics of the Internet.”
  • Spring 2006 courses: “The Internet and International Politics,” and “The Politics of the Internet.”
  • Spring 2005 courses: “Privacy, Security and Technology: The New Agenda,” and “The Politics of the Internet.”
  • Fall 2004 courses: “The Internet and International Politics,” “Game Theory.”
• The University of Toronto
  • Spring 2004 Courses: International Relations Ph.D. Core Course (co-taught with Thomas Homer Dixon).
  • Fall 2003 Courses: International Relations Ph.D. Core Course (co-taught with Thomas Homer-Dixon),“The Politics of the Internet,” “The New International Agenda.”
  • Spring 2003 Courses: “The Comparative Political Economy of Europe,” “The New International Agenda”
  • Fall 2002 courses: “The Politics of the Internet” and “The New International Agenda.”
• Georgetown University
  • Summer 2001 Course: “The Political Economy of European Integration.”

Fellowships and Honours

• Affiliated Researcher, Max-Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2002-
• Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, March-May 2002.
• European Union Social Science Information Resource Fellowship, May 2000
• Researcher’s Stipend, European University Institute, 1996-1999.
• Graduate Fellowship, Government Department/Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University, 1994-1996.
• Fulbright Fellowship, 1993-1994.
• 21st Century Trust Fellow, 1996,1997.
• Postgraduate Scholarship, University College Dublin, 1991-1992.

Publications

Books

• Henry Farrell (2009), The Political Economy of Trust: Institutions, Interests and Inter-Firm Cooperation in Italy and Germany. In production; Comparative Politics series, Cambridge University Press.

Articles

1. Eric Lawrence, John Sides and Henry Farrell (forthcoming), “Self-Segregation or Deliberation? Blog Readership, Participation and Polarization in American Politics,” Perspectives on Politics.
2. Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore (2009).“Ontology, Methodology and Causation in the American School of International Political Economy,” Review of International Political Economy, 16,1:58-71.
3. Henry Farrell and Melissa Schwartzberg (2009). “Institutions and Majority Rule in Online Communities,” Ethics and International Affairs, 22, 4:357-367.
4. Daniel W. Drezner and Henry Farrell (2008), “Introduction: Blogs, Politics and Power,” Public Choice, 134, 1-2:1-13.
5. Henry Farrell and Daniel W. Drezner (2008), “The Power and Politics of Blogs,” Public Choice, 134, 1-2:15-30.
6. Henry Farrell and Adrienne Hèritier (2007), “Introduction: Contested Competences in the European Union,” West European Politics 38, 2:227-243.
7. Henry Farrell and Adrienne Hèritier (2007), “Codecision and Institutional Change,” West European Politics 38, 2:285-300.
8. Carl-Fredrik Bergström, Henry Farrell and Adrienne Hèritier (2007), “Legislate or Delegate? Bargaining over Implementation and Legislative Authority in the European Union,” West European Politics 38, 2:338-366.
9. Henry Farrell and Adrienne Hèritier (2007), ‘Conclusions,” West European Politics 38, 2:405-415.
10. Henry Farrell (2006), “Regulating Information Flows: States, Private Actors and E-Commerce” Annual Review of Political Science 6:353-374.
11. Henry Farrell (2005),“Trust and Political Economy: Comparing the Effects of Institutions on Inter-Firm Cooperation,” Comparative Political Studies, 38, 5:459-483.
12. Henry Farrell and Adrienne Hèritier (2005), “A Rationalist-Institutionalist Explanation of Endogenous Regional Integration,” Journal of European Public Policy 12, 2:273-290.
13. Henry Farrell and Adrienne Hèritier (2004), “Interorganizational Cooperation and Intraorganizational Power: Early Agreements under Codecision and Their Impact on the Parliament and the Council,” Comparative Political Studies 37, 10:1184-1212.
14. Colin Crouch and Henry Farrell (2004), “Breaking the Path of Institutional Development: Alternatives to the New Determinism in Political Economy,” Rationality and Society, 16, 1:5-43 (2004). Earlier version available as a Max-Planck Discussion Paper, Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Society, Cologne, Germany.
15. Henry Farrell (2003), “Constructing the International Foundations of E-Commerce: The EU-US Safe Harbor Arrangement,” International Organization, 57, 2: 277-306.
16. Henry Farrell and Jack Knight (2003), “Trust, Institutions and Institutional Evolution: Industrial Districts and the Social Capital Hypothesis,” Politics and Society, 31, 4:537-556.
17. Henry Farrell and Adrienne Hèritier (2003), “Formal and Informal Institutions under Codecision: Continuous Constitution-Building in Europe,” Governance, 16, 4:577-600.
18. Henry Farrell (2002), “Hybrid Institutions and the Law: Interface Solutions or Outlaw Arrangements?,” Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie, 23, 1:25-40.
19. Gregory Flynn and Henry Farrell (1999), “Piecing Together the Democratic Peace: The CSCE, Norms and the ‘Construction’ of Security in Post-Cold War Europe,” International Organization, 53, 3:505-35 (1999).

Chapters in Edited Volumes

1. Henry Farrell, “Constructing Mid-Range Theories of Trust: The Role of Institutions,” Trust (the Capstone volume of the Russell Sage Foundation project on Trust), Russell Sage Foundation: 2009).
2. Henry Farrell and Adrienne Hèritier, “The Invisible Transformation of the Co-decision Procedure: Problems of Democratic Legitimacy,” in Catherine Moury and Luis de Sousa, Institutional Challenges in Post-Constitutional Europe: Governing Change (Routledge: forthcoming).
3. Henry Farrell, “Socialist Surrealism: China Miéville’s New Crobuzon Novels,” New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction eds. Donald Hassler and Clyde Wilcox (University of South Carolina Press: 2008).
4. Henry Farrell “Privacy in the Digital Age: States, Private Actors and Hybrid Arrangements in Governing Global Electronic Networks: International Perspectives on Power and Policy, eds. William Drake and Ernest Wilson (The MIT Press: 2008).
5. Henry Farrell, “Transnational Actors and the Transatlantic Relationship in E-Commerce - The Negotiation of the Safe Harbor Arrangement,” Creating a Transatlantic Marketplace, ed. Michelle Egan (Manchester University Press: 2005).
6. Henry Farrell, “The Political Economy of the Internet and E-Commerce,” in Political Economy and the Changing Global Order (third edition), eds. Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey R.D. Underhill (Oxford: 2005).
7. Henry Farrell and Ann-Louise Holten, “Collective Goods in the Local Economy: The Packaging Machinery Cluster in Bologna,” Local Production Systems in Europe: Reconstruction and Innovation, ed. Colin Crouch, Patrick Le Gals, Carlo Trigilia and Helmut Voelzkow (Oxford University Press, 2004).
8. Henry Farrell, “Trust, Distrust, and Power” in Distrust, ed. Russell Hardin (Russell Sage Foundation, 2004).
9. Henry Farrell, “Negotiating Privacy across Arenas - The EU-US ‘Safe Harbor’ Discussions,” in Common Goods: Reinventing European and International Governance, ed. Adrienne Hèritier (Rowman and Littlefield: 2002).
10. Colin Crouch and Henry Farrell, “Great Britain: Falling Through the Holes in the Network Concept,” in Local Production Systems in Europe: Rise or Demise?, ed. Colin Crouch et al. (Oxford University Press), 2001. Italian translation published in I sistemi di produzione locale in Europa (Il Mulino 2004).

Non-Academic Publications

• Henry Farrell,“Do The Netroots Matter?,” The American Prospect, July/August 2009.
• Henry Farrell, “The Myth of Digital Democracy,” Times Higher Education June 25 2009.
• Henry Farrell, “Can Partisanship Save Citizenship?,” The American Prospect, January 2009.
• Henry Farrell, Balancing National Security and Commerce: Information Politics in the New Transatlantic Agenda. Report for the German Marshall Fund, March 2008.
• Henry Farrell Underworlds (Review Essay on Roberto Saviano’s Gomorrah), The Nation (December 10 2007).
• Henry Farrell, “Bloggers and Parties: Can the Netroots Reshape American Democracy?,” The Boston Review (September/October 2006).
• Henry Farrell, “Privacy in Europe Suffers in Terror War,” The Financial Times op-ed page, July 2 2006,
• Daniel W. Drezner and Henry Farrell, “ Web of Influence,” Foreign Policy, November 2004.
• Henry Farrell, “The Blogosphere as a Carnival of Ideas,” Chronicle of Higher Education, October 7, 2005. Reprinted in The Australian Higher Education Supplement.
• Henry Farrell, “Remaking Fantasy: China Miéville’s New Crobuzon Novels,” N+1 (online).
• Henry Farrell and Adrienne Hèritier The Invisible Transformation of the Co-decision Procedure: Problems of Democratic Legitimacy. Report for SIEPS Foundation, 2004.

Manuscripts under Submission or Preparation

• Henry Farrell and Cosma Shalizi, “Evolutionary Accounts and Rational Choice Theories of Institutional Change.” Manuscript under preparation for journal submission.
• Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, “Domestic Institutions and International Political Economy,” under review, Review of International Political Economy.
• Henry Farrell and Jack Knight, “Trust and Institutional Compliance.” Manuscript under preparation for journal submission.

Academic Book Reviews

• Review Essay (2006), ‘Trust in Organizations: Dilemmas and Approaches,’ eds. Roderick M. Kramer and Karen S. Cook. American Journal of Psychology 119, 4, 685-689.
• Review (2005) of Amy Verdun and Erik Jones, ‘The Political Economy of European Integration: Theory and Analysis,’ Governance 19,4 677-679.

Workshops and Online Seminars

• Workshop on the New Institutionalisms and Change, co-organized with Alec Stone Sweet and Neil Fligstein, June 21-22, 2002.
• Workshop on Historical Institutionalism and International Relations. Organized with Abraham Newman and Orfeo Fioretos, Temple University, October 27 2006.
• Workshop on Historical Institutionalism and International Relations. Organized with Abraham Newman, April 14 2007.
• APSA 2008 Panel on Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland (with contributions from Paul Krugman, Nolan McCarty, Paul Pierson and Eric Rauchway).
• Online seminars organized on:
  • Dani Rodrik’s “One Economics, Many Recipes”
  • Sheri Berman’s “The Primacy of Politics”, republished in translation by the Monthly Review, Greek edition, March 2007.
  • Yochai Benkler’s “The Wealth of Networks.”
  • Also other non-academic texts.
  • Participant in Cato Unbound seminar on Nancy Rosenblum’s work on partisanship.

Invited Presentations

• “Trust and Institutional Compliance,” Washington University at St Louis Dept. of Political Science, November 17 2006.
• “Regulating Information Flows: State-Private Actor Relations in the Governance of E-Commerce,” presented in the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, April 12, 2006.
• “Regulating Information Flows: Domestic Sources of State Power and the Role of State-Private Actor Relations,” presented at Georgetown University, Mortara Center for International Affairs Seminar Series in International Relations, March 3, 2005.
• “The Invisible Transformation of the Co-decision Procedure: Problems of Democratic Legitimacy,” with Adrienne Héritier. Presented at the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies, Stockholm, June 2, 2003.
• “Trust and Political Economy: Comparing the Effects of Institutions on Inter-Firm Cooperation.” Presented at the Workshop on Political Theory, University of Indiana at Bloomington, April 1, 2002.
• “Trust and Political Economy: Comparing the Effects of Institutions on Inter-Firm Cooperation.” Paper presented at the Center for the Study of the New Institutional Social Science, Washington University (St. Louis), Feb 15, 2001.

Grants

• USD 15,000 CIBER grant, awarded for a project on institutions and private actors, April 2007.
• USD 115,000 grant from the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies for a project examining conflicts over competences in the European Union. Codirected with Adrienne Héritier (European University Institute).

University Service

• Member of Gamow Prize Committee, 2008-2009 academic year.
• Member of Policy Research Scholar selection committee, 2007-2008 academic year.
• Member of Gamow Prize Committee, 2007-2008 academic year.
• Member of University Information Technology Committee, 2006-
• Member of Gamow Prize Committee, 2006-2007 academic year.
• Member of Gamow Prize Committee, 2005-2006 academic year.
• Disciplinary representative for political science, Division of Social Sciences, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Fall, 2003. Duties included curriculum preparation, oversight of courses, allocation of resources.
• Undergraduate student advisor for political science, and for public policy co-operative program, Division of Social Sciences, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Fall, 2003.

Disciplinary Service

• Section Chair, International Political Economy, American Political Science Association Meeting 2005 (Washington DC).
• Reviewer (one or more articles reviewed) for American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Convergence, European Journal of International Relations, Governance, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Imprints, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, International Organization, International Political Sociology, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Perspectives on Politics, Politics and Economics, Political Studies, Polity, Rationality and Society, Regional Studies, Review of International Organizations, Review of International Studies, Social Science History, Socio-Economic Review, Stato e Mercato, World Politics.
• Reviewer (one or more manuscripts or book proposals reviewed) for Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, Lynne Riener Publishers, the MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Stanford University Press.

Languages

• Italian, French, German.

Sundry

• Co-founder of Crooked Timber, a popular academic weblog (http://www.crookedtimber.org). Average weekday readership, 10,000-12,000 unique visitors.