Christine Kearney Gustafson
Assistant Professor

Christine Kearney Gustafson received her Ph.D. in Political Science from BrownUniversity in 2001, her M.A. in Political Science from BrownUniversity in 1994, her M.A. in International Relations from the University of Southern California in 1992, and her B.A. in History and French from CreightonUniversityin 1989. From 2000 to 2004 she taught in the Political Science department at the University of Oregon, and from 2004 to 2007 she was an adjunct researcher at BrownUniversity’s Watson Institute for International Studies. She joined the Politics Department at Saint Anselm College in 2004. 

Professor Gustafson is the author of “Brazil’s 1964-67 Economic Stabilization Plan as Institutional Syncretism,” in Reconfiguring Institutions Across Time and Space, eds. Rudra Sil and Dennis C. Galvan (London: Palgrave, 2007); “The Brazilian Church: Reintegrating Ontology and Epistemology,” in The Catholic Church and the Nation-State: Comparative Perspectives, eds. Paul Christopher Manuel, Lawrence C. Reardon and Clyde Wilcox (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006); and “The Creditor Clubs: Paris and London,” in Dealing With Debt: International Financial Negotiations and Adjustment Bargaining, ed. Thomas J. Biersteker (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993). 

Professor Gustafson’s areas of research interest include the international political economy of development, Brazilian political economy, the politics of emerging powers, and theories of culture and institutional change.

Gustafson is a member of the American Political Science Association, Latin American Studies Association, and the International Studies Association.