Barbara Connolly
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Notre Dame

Barbara Connolly earned her Ph.D in Political Science. from U.C. Berkeley in 1997, and her M.A. in 1990. She graduated with a B.A. from Brown University (magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) in 1988. Her publications include: 'Increments for the Earth: The Politics of Environmental Aid, Organizational Inertia and Environmental Assistance to Eastern Europe" (co-authored with Tamar Gutner and Hildegard Bedarff), and "Nuclear Safety in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union" (co-author with Martin List), all in Robert O. Keohane and Marc A. Levy, eds, Institutions for Environmental Aid (Cambridge, MIT Press, 1996); "Institutions for Environmental Aid: Politics, Lessons and Opportunities," (co-author with Robert O. Keohane), Environment vol. 38, no. 5 (June 1996); and "Asymmetrical Rivalry in Common Pool Resources and European Responses to Acid Rain," in J. Samuel Barkin and George E. Shambaugh, eds, Anarchy and the Environment (Albany: SUNY, 1999). She is currently revising a book manuscript, Organizational Choice for International Cooperation: East-West European Cooperation on Regional Environmental Problems and working on articles about environmental aspects of U.S. trade policy. As both faculty fellow for four years and postdoctoral fellow (1997-98) in the Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government's program in Global Environmental Assessment and Public Policy, Connolly has conducted extensive research on the role of scientific assessment in international environmental policymaking. In 2003-4 she worked as a Council on Foreign Relations Fellow on trade and environment issues at the Office of the United States Trade Representative. She also has extensive teaching experience in the areas of international relations, international institutions, international environmental politics, and sustainable development.