ALFRED COOPER DRURY

317 Lowry Hall University of Missouri

Columbia, Missouri 65211

 

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND HIGHLIGHTS

  • 8+ years of administrative experience at the department, college, and university system level.
  • Led and managed diverse academic units, developed college, campus, and university system-level policies.

 

Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Science

  • Serve as chief academic and administrative officer.
  • Manage:
    • 450 faculty and 450 staff
    • $83m budget
    • 25 departments spanning the arts, humanities, natural and mathematical sciences, and the social and behavioral sciences
    • multiple independent degree programs and research centers, two museums, and a literary magazine
  • Serve more than 7,000 Arts and Science degree seeking students.
  • Engage with college alumni and supporters to advance the mission of the college and campus.
  • Manage and leverage all college endowments.
  • Create programs supporting faculty research and creative work. Collaborate with other colleges and UM campuses to create research centers and degree programs.
  • Promote diversity and inclusion through programs and hiring.

Senior Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Science

  • Part of a three-person team with the dean and college CFO who managed the $80m budget. Helped develop process for and implemented budget cuts for four successive years, while protecting critical research and teaching missions.
  • Managed all academic recruitment that led to increased diversity within departments by more than 40%.
  • Designed and implemented a training and mentoring program for new department chairs that prepares them for all aspects of their job and develops a support and coaching network for future success.
  • Managed more than 900,000 square feet in more than 50 buildings.
  • Developed and helped implement policy for social-distancing in all campus classrooms during pandemic, and implemented college response to pandemic.
  • Oversaw and helped create the Cognitive Neuroscience and MizzoµX core facilities and the MU Chess Team.
  • Co-Chaired a task force that conducted a top-to-bottom review of all academic programs. Co-authored report providing campus-wide strategic investment and closure recommendations. Worked with the chancellor on final decisions and implementation.
  • Led online teaching initiatives to collaborate across UM System campuses.

Chair of the Department of Political Science

  • Restructured department budget to enhance faculty and graduate student productivity.
  • Successfully recruited and tenured eight faculty.
  • Created Political Science alumni board and developed network of regional alums.

Professor in the Truman School of Government and Public Affairs

  • Published more than 30 articles and book chapters and three books.
  • Advised 25 doctoral students.

 

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., Arizona State University, Political Science, 1997
  • M.A., Michigan State University, International Relations, 1992
  • B.A., Michigan State University, Political Science, 1990

 

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS

Interim Dean, 2021-, College of Arts and Science, University of Missouri

Responsibilities

Serve as chief academic and administrative officer for the college. Lead strategic planning, research and creative work initiatives, student success efforts, budgetary planning, and advancement. Specific responsibilities include:

  • Research and creative work: Rebuilt and focused team of associate deans and faculty fellows on supporting faculty initiatives across all sectors of the college to increase and highlight research and creative work. Strategically allocate college faculty hires and aggressively pursue Mizzou Forward hires.
  • Student success: Work with college leaders to revise and design new programs for students. Collaborate across campus and system on innovative joint degree programs. Focus efforts on improving student retention and graduation.
  • Budget: Manage $83m budget. Strategically leverage reserves and gift funds to advance initiatives and increase revenue.
  • College: Manage 25 departments, spanning the arts, humanities, natural and mathematical sciences, and the social and behavioral sciences, two museums, one literary magazine, multiple research centers, and multiple independent degree programs.
  • Development: Work with Executive Director of Advancement to set college priorities and align college and campus goals.

Outcomes

  • Developed and launched course-release program focused on arts, humanities, and social/behavioral sciences to increase research and provide research and creative work support for mid-career faculty.
  • Launched collaborative materials science research group with College of Engineering aimed at developing core group of faculty and attaining large center grants in materials science.
  • Co-developed and initiated program with Honors College to hire new faculty and support faculty teaching in Honors sequence. More ranked faculty will now teach Honors courses and A&S departments will have support to expand their teaching.
  • Developing a joint online psychology degree with UMSL (UM System’s first inter-campus joint degree. Developing a joint data science degree with the College of Engineering. Both will launch in Fall 2022.

Senior Associate Dean, 2018-2021/Associate Dean, 2016-2018, College of Arts and Science, University of Missouri

Responsibilities

Served as executive deputy to the dean in all areas of the college. Managed day-to-day activities of 28 administrative units and oversaw policies and processes relevant to faculty and academic staff. Specific responsibilities included:

  • Faculty and academic staff recruiting: Strategically allocated tenure/tenure-track and non-tenure-track positions in the college. Oversaw entire hiring process, including design of inclusion and diversity efforts, contracts, and start-up packages.
  • New Chair mentoring/training: Designed a program for mentoring and training new department chairs focused on financial management, human resources processes and problems, program assessment and strategic planning, and managing an administrative- research-teaching-life balance.
  • Budget: With the dean and CFO, developed and implemented a process to make vertical cuts across 28 departments. Cut 12% and 7% in successive years while maintaining research productivity and serving student curricular needs.
  • Development: Assisted development officers with proposals. Represented college at outreach and donor events. Met with donors to develop ties to the college.
  • Graduate studies/programs: Administered the process for approving new graduate programs and modifying existing programs. Represented college to the graduate school. Oversaw all aspects of graduate education in the college.
  • Strategic Planning: Coordinated strategic planning process for the dean by organizing appropriate stake-holders, guiding discussions, coordinating associate deans, and drafting reports.

Outcomes

  • Streamlined hiring process in college that led to 90% success rate on initial offers.
  • Dramatically increased the diversity of new hires by orchestrating more than 40 new faculty who increase their department’s ability to serve our diverse student population.
  • Trained and mentored 22 new department chairs during budget cuts and layoffs.
  • Relocated two museums and a cast collection, in successful effort to keep museums open.

Chair, 2013-2016, Department of Political Science, University of Missouri

Responsibilities

  • Managed department budget, curriculum, development, alumni relations, and program assessment.
  • Represented department to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Evaluated faculty, administered tenure and promotion process, recruited new faculty, mentored junior faculty.
  • Managed and evaluated teaching and research assistants.
  • Managed, evaluated, and recruited advising, financial, and support staff.

Outcomes

  • Initiated Political Science Alumni Advisory Board. Composed of prominent political science graduates, the board provided input on department development efforts and outreach activities.
  • Renegotiated contract for department’s introductory course readers, leading to a doubling in department’s royalty income annually.
  • Improved faculty evaluation process and created more incentives and accountability for faculty. The process and incentives helped move several faculty back on the path to promotion.
  • Reformed graduate program. Secured and allocated greater funding to graduate student recruitment, which led to an increase in the quality of incoming students. Devoted more funding for current graduate students for professionalization and research opportunities, resulting in an increase in conference participation and subsequent student publications.

Program Co-Chair, 2016, International Studies Association

Responsibilities

  • Built the program for the 2016 International Studies Association annual conference.
  • Oversaw all ISA section’s and region’s panel creation and selection.

Outcomes

  • Successful conference of more than 5,000 attendees.
  • Published special issue in International Studies Review on Exploring Peace.

Editor-in-Chief, 2010-2015, Foreign Policy Analysis

Responsibilities

  • Managed all aspects of submission, review, revision, and publication for journal.
  • Oversaw five associate editors and an editorial assistant.

Outcomes

  • Doubled number of submissions.
  • Oversaw successful application to ISI.

 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

  • Professor. 2021-present. Truman School of Government and Public Affairs.
  • Professor. 2013-2021. Department of Political Science and Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
  • Associate Professor. 2010-2013. Department of Political Science and Truman School of Public Affairs. University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
  • Associate Professor. 2007-2010. Department of Political Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
  • Assistant Professor. 2002-2007. Department of Political Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
  • Assistant Professor. 2000-2002. Department of Political Science, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL.
  • Tower Fellow. 1998-2000. The John G. Tower Center for Political Studies, Department of Political Science, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • MU Alumni Association Faculty Alumni Award, 2021.
  • SEC Academic Leadership Development Program Fellow, 2018-2019
  • Foreign Policy Analysis Distinguished Scholar Award, 2018, International Studies Association.
  • Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award, 2016, International Studies Association- Midwest.
  • Ladd Hollist Service Award, 2015, International Studies Association.
  • Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar Award, 2013, International Studies Association- Midwest.
  • Frank Klingberg Best Faculty Paper Award, 2009, International Studies Association- Midwest.
  • Frank Klingberg Best Faculty Paper Award, 2006, International Studies Association- Midwest.
  • Gold Chalk Award, 2006, for graduate student mentorship, Graduate Professional Council, University of Missouri.
  • Frank Klingberg Best Faculty Paper Award, 2004, International Studies Association- Midwest.

 

DOCTORAL STUDENTS

Student, Year Graduated, Position

Yasemin Akbaba, 2006, Gettysburg College

Ozgur Ozdamar, 2006, Bilkent University

Zeynep Taydas, 2006, Clemson University

Enyu Zhang, 2006, Seattle University

Balkan Devlen, 2007, Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Dursun Peksen, 2008, University of Memphis

Jerome Venteicher, 2009, Defense Intelligence Agency

Imran Demir, 2009, Georgia Southern College

Tim Peterson, 2010, University of South Carolina

Xiaohong “Sarah” Xu, 2011, Foreign Affairs College

Matt Moore, 2011, University of Central Oklahoma

Agnes Simon, 2012, Masaryk University Brno

Michael Rudy, 2012, Truman State University

Jeremy Bowling, 2015, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Travis Ernst, 2016, US Department of State

Chris Patane, 2016, Sam Houston State University

Chika Yamamoto, 2016, Texas A&M Kingsville

Jeff King, 2017, American University of Sharjah

Colton Heffington, 2017, Sandia National Laboratories

Thomas Guarrieri, 2017, University of Maryland

Jessica Anderson, 2017, University of Louisiana-Monroe

Bimal Adhikari, 2018, Nazarbayev University

Jinmun Jeong, 2018, University of Seoul

Adriana Boersner, 2019, University of South Carolina, Aiken

Kate Perry, 2019, Georgia Southern University

 

RESEARCH

Google Scholar Citation Count: 2911 Google Scholar H-Index: 20

Google Scholar i10-Index: 23

 

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Economic Sanctions and Presidential Decisions: Models of Political Rationality. 2005. New York: Palgrave (Advances in Foreign Policy Analysis series).

Sanctions as Economic Statecraft: Theory and Practice. (Co-edited with Steve Chan). 2000. London: Macmillan/St. Martin’s (International Political Economy series).

 

Textbooks

IR: Seeking Security, Prosperity, and Quality of Life in a Changing World. Fourth Edition. (with James Scott and Ralph Carter). 2020. Washington, DC: CQ Press.

 

IR: Introduction to International Relations. Third Edition. (with James Scott and Ralph Carter). 2017. Washington, DC: CQ Press.

 

IR: Introduction to International Relations. Second Edition. (with James Scott and Ralph Carter). 2015. Boston: Cengage.

 

IR: Introduction to International Relations. (with James Scott and Ralph Carter). 2013. Boston: Cengage.

 

Journal Special Issue

Presidential Issue: Exploring Peace. (With Thomas Guarrieri and Amanda Murdie). 2017.

International Studies Review.

 

Articles

“Leverage, Diplomacy, and Sexual Minority Rights in Africa: The cases of Malawi and Zambia compared” (With Michael Wahman). Forthcoming. Journal of Human Rights.

 

“Introduction: Exploring Peace.” (With Thomas Guarrieri and Amanda Murdie). 2017.

International Studies Review. 19: 1-5.

 

“Neo-Kantianism and Coercive Diplomacy: The Complex Case of Economic Sanctions.” (With Patrick James and Dursun Peksen). 2014. International Interactions.

 

“Media-driven Humanitarianism? News Media Coverage of Human Rights Abuses and the Use of Economic Sanctions.” (With Dursun Peksen and Tim Peterson). 2014.

International Studies Quarterly.

 

“How Democracy Facilitates South Korean Interest in Free Trade Agreements.” (With Jonathan Krieckhaus and Chika Yamamoto). 2014. Korea Observer. 45: 39-60.

 

“Women and Economic Statecraft: The Negative Impact International Economic Sanctions Visit on Women.” (With Dursun Peksen). 2012. European Journal of International Relations.

 

“National Missile Defense and (Dis)Satisfaction.” (With Stephen Quackenbush). 2011.

Journal of Peace Research. 48: 469-480.

 

“Sanctioning Violence: The Effect of Third-Party Economic Coercion on Militarized Conflict.” (With Tim Peterson). 2011. Journal of Conflict Resolution. 55: 580-605.

 

“Political Duplicity: A Reply to Professor Jonathan Sullivan” (With Yitan Li and Pat James). 2011. Journal of East Asian Studies. 11: 137-152.

 

“Coercive or Corrosive: The Negative Impact of Economic Sanctions on Democracy.” (With Dursun Peksen). 2011. International Interactions. 36: 240-264.

 

“‘Pretty Prudent’ or Rhetorically Responsive? The American Public’s Support for Military Action.” (With Adrian Ang, Yitan Li, and Marvin Overby). 2010. Political Research Quarterly. 63: 83-96.

 

“Diversionary Dragons or “Talking Tough In Taipei”: Sino-Taiwanese Relations in the New Millennium.” (With Pat James and Yitan Li). 2009. Journal of East Asian Studies. 9: 369–398.

 

“Economic Sanctions and Political Repression: Assessing the Impact of Coercive Diplomacy on Political Freedoms.” (With Dursun Peksen). 2009. Human Rights Review. 10(3): 393-411.

 

“Democratic Sanctions: The Connection Between the Democratic Peace and Economic Sanctions.” (With Dan Cox). 2006. Journal of Peace Research. 43(6): 709-722.

 

“U.S. Economic Sanction Threats against China: Failing to Leverage Better Human Rights.” (With Yitan Li). 2006. Foreign Policy Analysis. 2(4): 307–324.

 

“Corruption, Democracy, and Economic Growth.” (With Jonathan Krieckhaus and Michael Lusztig). 2006. International Political Science Review. 27(2): 121–136.

 

“The Politics of Humanitarian Assistance: U.S. Foreign Disaster Aid, 1964-1995.” (With Richard S. Olson and Douglas A. Van Belle). 2005. Journal of Politics. 67(5): 454-473.

 

“Threatening Sanctions When Engagement Would Be More Effective: Attaining Better Human Rights in China.” (With Yitan Li). 2004. International Studies Perspectives. 5: 378– 394.

 

“Consistent or Ad Hoc: The U.S. Foreign Policy on China-Taiwan Relations.” 2001. Pacific Focus. 16: 87-98.

 

“Sanctions as Coercive Diplomacy: The U.S. President’s Decision to Initiate Economic Sanctions.” 2001. Political Research Quarterly. 54: 485-508.

 

“Patterns of Internal Migration During the Russian Transition.” (With Steve Wegren). 2001. Journal of Communist Studies and Transitional Politics. 17: 15-42.

 

“U.S. Presidents and the Use of Economic Sanctions.” 2000. Presidential Studies Quarterly. 30: 623-642.

 

“Revisiting Economic Sanctions Reconsidered.” 1998. Journal of Peace Research. 35: 497-509. [Reprinted in The Economics of Conflict, Todd Sandler and Keith Hartley, editors. 2003. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.]

 

“Disasters and Political Unrest: A Quantitative Investigation.” (With Richard S. Olson). 1998. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. 6: 153-161.

 

“Un-Therapeutic Communities: A Cross-National Analysis of Post-Disaster Political Unrest.” (With Richard S. Olson). 1997. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters. 15: 221-238.

 

“American Health Care: Myths and Realities.” (With Vladimir Shlapentokh and Eric Dammann). 1994. Journal of Health and Social Policy. 6: 19-34.

 

Chapters

“Russia Plays the (Triangular) Sanctions Game" (with Chris Patane). 2018. Triangular Diplomacy among The United States, The European Union, and the Russian Federation. Bircheld, Vicki L. and Alasdair Young, editors. Palgrave Macmillan.

 

“Economic Sanctions and Women’s Status in Target Countries.” 2016. Handbook of Gender in World Politics, Steans, Jill and Daniela Tepe-Belfrage, editors. Oxford: Edward Elgar.

 

“Economic Sanctions and International Democracy Promotion.” (With Dursun Peksen). 2012. Liberal Interventionism and Democracy Promotion, Dursun Peksen, editor.

Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield.

 

“Sanctioning for Democracy.” (With Dursun Peksen). 2010. Democratic Peace in Theory and Practice, Steven W. Hook, editor. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press.

 

“Economic Sanctions and Operational Code Analysis: The Influence of Beliefs on Less Acute Forms of Coercion.” 2006. Chapter in Beliefs and Leadership in World Politics,

 

GRANTS

Stephen G. Walker and Mark Schafer, editors. New York: Palgrave (Advances in Foreign Policy Analysis series).

 

“Ambiguity and U.S. Foreign Policy on China-Taiwan Relations.” 2003. Chapter in Conflict in Asia: Korea, China-Taiwan, and India-Pakistan, Uk Heo and Shale Horowitz, editors. New York: Praeger.

 

“How and Whom the U.S. President Sanctions: A Time-Series—Cross-Section Analysis of

U.S. Sanction Decisions and Characteristics.” 2000. Chapter in Sanctions as Economic Statecraft: Theory and Practice, Steve Chan and Cooper Drury, editors.

 

“Sanctions as Statecraft: An Overview.” 2000. (With Steve Chan). Chapter in Sanctions as Economic Statecraft: Theory and Practice, Steve Chan and Cooper Drury, editors.

  • “Sanctions and African LGBT Rights: Analyzing Third-party Effects, University of Missouri Research Council Grant,” 2016, (total award: $9,969)
  • Academy of Korean Studies Grant, 2012-2017, (laboratory team member; total award: $1,325,000; University of Missouri portion: $95,000) [award declined].

 

  • “Winning Coalitions, Parliaments, and War,” University of Missouri Research Council Grant, 2013, (total award: $2,410).

 

  • University of Missouri Research Council Leave, 2009.

 

  • “Beneficial Engagement and Costly Coercion: The Impacts of U.S. Democracy Assistance and Economic Sanctions on Democratization,” University of Missouri Research Council Grant, 2009, (total award: $4,845).

 

  • “The Gendered Consequences of Economic Sanctions,” University of Missouri Research Council Grant, 2007, (total award: $4,155).

 

  • “U.S. Economic Sanction Threats Against China: MFN and Human Rights,” University of Missouri Research Council Grant, 2004, (total award: $5,171).

 

  • Southern Illinois University Summer Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship, 2001 (total award: $9,711) [award declined].

 

  • Southern Illinois University College of Liberal Arts Dean’s Appreciation Award, 2000 (total award: $500).

 

  • The John G. Tower Fellowship, 1998-2000, Tower Center for Political Studies, Southern Methodist University (total award: $90,000).

 

SERVICE

  • Task Force on Academic Program Analysis, Enhancement and Opportunities, 2017-2018 (Co-Chair).
  • International Studies Association, Publications Committee, 2017-2020.
  • State of Missouri Common Curriculum Advisory Committee (2016-2020)
  • University of Missouri Intercampus Faculty Council, 2015-2016.
  • Ad Hoc Faculty Committee on Title IX, 2015-2016 (Chair).
  • Chair’s Council, 2015-2016 (Chair).
  • International Studies Association, Executive Committee, 2012-2013; 2015-2016.
  • University of Missouri, Faculty Council 2012-2016.
  • University of Missouri Writing Board, 2011-2012, 2012-2013 (Chair).
  • College of Arts and Science Undergraduate Scholarship Committee, 2008-2009.
  • University of Missouri Committee for Undergraduate Education, 2007-2009.
  • Department of Political Science Executive Committee, 2003-2005, 2005-2006, 2007- 2009, 2009-2011.
  • Department of Political Science Hiring Committee, 2003-2004 (co-chair), 2005-2006, 2007-2008, 2010-2011.
  • Department of Political Science Graduate Studies Committee, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2008-2009.
  • Department of Political Science Lectures Committee, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005 (Chair), 2005-2006 (Chair), 2008-2009.
  • Department of Political Science Computing Committee, 2004, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010.
  • Faculty Advisor, Political Science Graduate Student Association, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010.
  • Editorial Board Member. Foreign Policy Analysis, 2004-2009.
  • President. Foreign Policy Analysis Section, American Political Science Association, 2007- 2008.
  • Editorial Board Member. International Studies Perspectives, 2002-2004, 2005-2008.
  • Program Chair. Foreign Policy Analysis Section, American Political Science Association, 2006-2007.
  • Member, International Studies Association Professional Development Committee, 2005- 2007.
  • College of Arts and Science Faculty Responsibility Committee, 2003-2004, 2004-2005.
  • Editorial Board Member. International Studies Review, 2003-2005.
  • President. International Studies Association-Midwest, 2003-2004.
  • Program Chair. International Studies Association-Midwest, 2002-2003.
  • President. Foreign Policy Analysis Section, International Studies Association, 2002-2003.
  • Program Chair. Foreign Policy Analysis Section, International Studies Association, 2001- 2002.
  • At-Large Officer/Frank Klingberg Paper Competition Chair. International Studies Association-Midwest, 2000-2002.
  • At-Large Officer/Alexander George Paper Competition Chair. Foreign Policy Analysis Section, International Studies Association, 1999-2001.Editor. Foreign Policy Analysis Notes. Foreign Policy Analysis Section, International Studies Association, 1996-1999.