Brief Bio

 
Autumn Lockwood Payton is a Jean Monnet postdoctoral fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She obtained her PhD in political science from The Ohio State University in 2009. As a student of International Relations, her research explores the strategies of small states in achieving favorable bargaining outcomes in international negotiations. Her dissertation, "Tying Down Gulliver: How Weak States Control the Design of International Institutions," evaluates this question using empirical evidence from the negotiations over the establishment of the International Criminal Court. Currently, her research expands this analysis to look at a number of contentious areas of international politics including the law of the sea and trade-related issues.

Other research interests: institutional design, political methodology, international law and human rights, and political economy.