Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

3806 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260

Tel.: +1-412-877-8763

jmurtaz@pitt.edu

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2009 - Present Assistant Professor

Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh

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2009 Ph.D., Political Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison - Subfields: Comparative Politics, Research Methodology

- Ph.d. Minor in Law, University of Wisconsin–Madison Law School Dissertation: The Microfoundations of State Building: Informal Institutions and Local Public Goods in Rural Afghanistan

2006 M.A., Agricultural and Applied Economics University of Wisconsin–Madison

2003 M.A., Political Science

University of Wisconsin–Madison 1997 B.S.F.S, International Politics

Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University - Certificate in Eurasian, Russian, and Eastern European Studies 1995 Moscow Institute for Social and Political Studies

Coursework in Russian Politics and History (in Russian) Moscow, Russia

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The Political Economy of Customary Governance: Informal Order and State Building in Rural Afghanistan, in progress

Property Rights and Political Violence: The Political Economy of Land and State in Afghanistan (with Ilia Murtazashvili), in progress

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“Colored by Revolution: The Political Economy of Autocratic Stability in Uzbekistan.” 2012. Democratization 19 (1): 78–97.

“Armed with Practice: Learning to Engage with the Military.” 2010. The Forum. Volume 8, Number 3.

“Rangeland Administration in (Post) Conflict Conditions: The Case of Afghanistan,” in Innovations in Land Rights Recognition, Administration, and Governance, ed. Klaus Deininger et al.

(Washington D.C.: The World Bank, 2010), 225-241. With J. David Stanfield, Muhammad Yasin Safar, and Akram Salam.

“Land Tenure Reform in Afghanistan,” with J. David Stanfield, M. Y. Safar, and Akram Salam in Strengthening Post-Conflict Peacebuilding through Natural Resource Management, Volume 2, Environmental Law Initiative, forthcoming.

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“Soviet Union in Central Asia,” in Volume 4: Cultural Sociology of West, Central, and South Asia; Part 3, 1900 to Present: Soviet Union in Central Asia, forthcoming.

“Osama bin Laden,”in Volume 4: Cultural Sociology of West, Central, and South Asia; Part 3, 1900 to Present: Soviet Union in Central Asia, forthcoming

Co-editor and Contributor, Tribalism, Governance, and Development, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, 2010.

Book Review, “Changing Poverty, Changing Policy,” Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger, eds, Comparative Policy Analysis, 2010.

“Community Governance and State Building in Rural Afghanistan,” 2009. Central Eurasian Studies Review, 7 (2): 12-16.

“An Investigation into the Sustainability of Community Development Councils,” April 2008. Final Report, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, Kabul, Afghanistan.

“Report from Samarkand: Uzbekistan through the Eyes of Its Youth,” 1999. Central Asia Monitor, No. 3: 20–24.

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Research Projects

 Subnational Governance in Afghanistan (Summer 2012): Interviews and focus group

society groups, customary governance representatives, diplomats, and international donor community.

 Electoral Reform in Afghanistan (2011-2012): Designed nationally-representative survey, population based-survey experiment, semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions for a research project that explored the impact of national and local electoral reform on representation and state building in Afghanistan (with USAID/Democracy International).

 Village Governance and Public Goods Provision in Rural Afghanistan (2006-8): Qualitative field work in 32 villages across six provinces of rural Afghanistan, supported by the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit.

Field Experience: Afghanistan (three years), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia (one year), Tajikistan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan (five years)

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Senior Research Officer, Political Economy and Governance, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, Kabul, Afghanistan, 2007–08

Democracy Specialist, United States Agency for International Development, Central Asia Regional Mission, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 1999–2002.

Secondary School Instructor, United States Peace Corps, Samarqand, Uzbekistan, 1997-99 Project Assistant, U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (CRDF), Arlington, VA, 1996-7

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2012 U.S. Army, Human Terrain System, Ft. Leavenworth, KS

Patterson School of Diplomacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 2011 Workshop on Policy Analysis and Political Theory, Indiana University,

Bloomington, IN

2010 Australian National University, Graduate School of International Affairs, Canberra, Australia

United Nations Development Program, Conference on Traditional Justice and Development, Bangkok, Thailand

Conference on Violent Armed Groups, Ridgway Center for Security Studies, University of Pittsburgh

Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, Department of Defense, Washington, DC

National Defense Science Board, Counterinsurgency Task Force, Washington, DC National Intelligence Council, Washington, DC

2009 St. Norbert College, Green Bay WI

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American Institute for Afghanistan Studies, Top Prize, Annual Student Paper Competition, 2008. University of Wisconsin–Madison, Department of Political Science, Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2005.

United States Agency for International Development, Superior Unit Citation for “Designing and implementing post-September 11 conflict mitigation programs vital to the stability of Central Asia and critical to the achievement of U.S. foreign policy objectives,” 2002.

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 Democracy International/United States Agency for International Development, 2011-2 ($20,000)

 Faculty Development Grant, Center for Global Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2011 ($2,500)

 Faculty Research Grant, Center for Global Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2011 ($4,000)

 Domestic Travel Grant, Center for Global Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2011

 Bradley Foundation, Dissertation Fellowship, Spring 2008, Fall 2008 (full tuition funding and stipend)

 University of Wisconsin School of Law - Institute for Legal Studies Graduate Fellow, 2005–2007

 Vilas Travel Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006–2007, 2008-9

 International Research and Exchange Program, International Advanced Research Opportunity Grant, 2006–2007 (declined)

 National Security Education Program, Boren Graduate Fellowship, 2006–2007 (declined)

 Bradley Foundation Summer Research Fellowship, Summer 2005

 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship - Persian Language Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2003–2004 (declined 2004–2005)

 American Institute of Iranian Studies Summer Language Studies, Dekhoda Institute - Tehran, Iran, 2003 (declined, visa denied)

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“Electoral System Choice, Representation, and Accountablity: Experimental Evidence from Afgha nistan,” Workshop on Ethnic Politics and Electoral Democracy, University of Zurich, Zurich,

Switzerland, June 2012 (with Torsten Jochem). (invited workshop)

“The Formal-Informal Nexus in Rural Afghanistan,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, April 2011

“Tribes, Governance, and Development in Afghanistan,” United States Institute for Peace/United States Agency for International Development, Research Workshop on Tribes, States, and

Development, Washington, DC, 2010 (invited workshop)

“Ungovernable Afghanistan? The Role of Customary Authority and International Assistance in Generating State Support,” Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Denver, CO, May 2009.

“The Politics of Property Rights in Afghanistan” with Ilia Murtazashvili, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2009.

“Demand Driven State Building in Fragile States: Inter-communal Cooperation for the Provision of Public Goods in Rural Afghanistan,” Political Economy section, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA , September 2011.

“The Formal-Informal Nexus in Rural Afghanistan,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, April 2011.

“Informal Ties that Bind: Interest Aggregation and Representation in the Absence of the State,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2009.

“Customary Organizations and Community Development in Rural Afghanistan,” Conference on Afghan Development, Center for Global Studies and Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska, Omaha, October 2008.

“Customary Organizations and the Foundations of State Building in Afghanistan: The Role of Maliks, Mullahs, and Jirgas in Local Governance,” Sponsored by the Political Economy

Colloquium and the Centers for Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies, South Asian Studies, and Global Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison, September 2008.

“Local Governance as an Instrument of State Building,” Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, September 2008.

”The Political Economy of Customary Organizations in Rural Afghanistan,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, August 2008.

“The Political Foundations of State Building and Limited Government in Afghanistan,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2008.

“The Sustainability of Community Development Councils in Afghanistan,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kabul, Afghanistan, January 2008. (workshop organizer)

“Investigating the Sustainability of Community Development Councils in Afghanistan: Research Methodology,” Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit Workshop, Kabul, Afghanistan, March 2007. (workshop organizer)

“Governance in the Shadow of the Law? The Political Economy of Informal Institutions and Local Government in Central Asia,” Social Science Research Council, Dissertation Development

Workshop, April 2006. (invited workshop)

“The 2005 Parliamentary Elections in Afghanistan: From the Campaign to the First Session – A Preliminary Assessment,” Center for Middle East Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison, February 2006.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Formal and Informal Political Institutions, Political Economy of Development, Decentralization and Local Governance, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Qualitative and Quantitative Research Design, Islam and Politics, Central and South Asian Politics, Former Soviet Politics

TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Pittsburgh:

Ph.D. Level Coursework

 Politics of Central Asia (Ph.D. Seminar)

 State-Building (Ph.D. Seminar)

 Institutions and Development (Ph.D. Seminar)

 Qualitative Research Methods (Ph.D. Seminar)

M.A. Level Coursework

 Global Governance (Graduate)

 Post-Conflict Reconstruction (Graduate)

 Administration of Public Affairs (Graduate) University of Wisconsin–Madison:

 Political Islam (Undergraduate)

SHORT TERM CONSULTANCIES

Democracy International/USAID, Afghanistan Governance Assessment, 2012 Internews, Kabul, Afghanistan, 2005-6

United Nations Development Program, Support to the Establishment of the Afghan Legislature (UNDP/SEAL), Kabul, Afghanistan, 2006

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Leadership Development and Education for Sustained Peace, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, Faculty Advisor, 2011-Present

Independent expert witness (written affidavits and expert witness testimony), in support of applicants seeking political asylum in the United States, 2005—present.

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Election Observer, Presidential Elections, Kazakhstan, 2005.

University of Pittsburgh Service

Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

Vice President, Faculty Assembly (2011-12) elected

Member, Faculty Advisory Committee (2010-11), (2011-12) elected Member, Curriculum Review and Evaluation Committee (2011-present) Professional Development Fund Committee (2009-10, F2010)

Search Committee Member, Security Studies (2009-10)

Other University Service Appointments

Co-convener, University of Pittsburgh Governance Group (2011-present)

Faculty Advisory Board, Center for Russian and East European Studies (2010-present) FLAS Selection Committee, Center for Russian and East European Studies (2010-11) FLAS Selection Committee, Member, Center for Global Studies (2010-11)

Provost’s Committee on Information Technology (2010-Present)

Ridgway Center for Security Studies, Faculty Steering Committee (2011-Present)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Political Science Association Central Eurasian Studies Society Association for Asian Studies

American Institute for Afghanistan Studies

University of Pittsburgh Affiliations

Center for Russian and East European Studies Center for Asian Studies

Global Studies Center

University of Pittsburgh Governance Group Ridgway Center for Security Studies

Ford Institute for Human Security World History Center

Research Languages