Mark Nieman
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Trinity College
Mark Nieman is an assistant professor cross-appointed to the Department of Political Science and Trinity College. He is also affiliated with the Data Sciences Institute. His academic interests are in international relations and political methodology. His research focuses on interactions between major powers and protégé states and the foreign policy implications of these interactions, specifically as they pertain to: competition and cooperation between major powers; conflict processes among protégé states; state development; and political economy. His research in political methodology develops techniques and best practices for working with censored and non-random missing data, as well as modeling temporal dynamics.
Nieman’s research has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, and has been published in The Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Journal of Peace Research, and Statistica Sinica, among others. His first book (co-authored with Cameron Thies), Rising Powers and Foreign Policy Revisionism: Understanding BRICS Identity and Behavior through Time, is available from University of Michigan Press.
Nieman teaches courses on international political order, international political economy, contemporary challenges in international relations, theory development and research design. These courses focus on understanding the theoretical mechanisms driving domestic and international actors' behavior and evaluating these using empirical evidence.
He earned his PhD from the University of Iowa, as well as BA and MA degrees from Iowa State University. He previously held positions at Iowa State University, the University of Alabama, the University of Missouri, and was a James A. Socknat Fellow at the World Bank.