Curriculum Vitae
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Autumn Lockwood Payton is a Research Fellow at the Social Science Reseach Center Berlin (WZB) in the unit Transnational Conflicts and International Institutions. The broad focus of her research is on the political authority of international organizations and more specifically on decisions making processes in IOs.
Prior to coming to Berlin she was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy. She obtained her PhD in political science from The Ohio State University in Summer 2009.
Her dissertation entitled "Tying Down Gulliver: How Weak States Control the Design of International Institutions" asks how small states achieve favorable bargaining outcomes despite their relative lack of material and formal institutional power. She proposes that weak states can achieve favorable outcomes by through coalition formation that allows groups of states to link issues across international organizations. Traditionally, issue-linkage is a strategy that has been relegated to more powerful actors and focuses only on linkage within a single organization. These arguments are empirically evaluated against evidence collected on the negotations over the International Criminal Court.
Dr. Lockwood Payton's research focuses on the intersection between international politics and international law. In an article, co-authored with Irfan Nooruddin, in the Journal of Peace Research, uncovers states' vulnerability to economic sanctions and corrects for the difficulty in assessing the success of sanctions by collecting data on the threat and enactment phases of a sanctioning event.
Another project, with Daniel J. Blake, assesses the selection of voting rules in international organizations, suggesting that states simultaneously seek multiple goals when establishing international organizations. The selection of a particular voting rule reveals important information about the importance of some goals over others.
Additional research areas include the relationship between globalization and human rights, the intersection between event history analysis and spatial econometrics, and principal-agent relationships in international organizations.
Dr. Lockwood Payton has taught courses at Ohio State University including introductory level International Relations and International Law and Human Rights at the upper-division. In addition to teaching at Ohio State, she has served as a teaching assistant for Advanced Regression for Professor Brian Pollins at the University of Michigan's summer statistics program, ICPSR.
She is the recipient of a Max Weber Fellowship (2009-2010), a Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship for Croatian/Serbian (2005) and a Mershon Travel Grant for field research (2006).
Prior to graduate school, Dr. Lockwood Payton worked in the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia, in Washington, D.C. where she worked as a research associate for the political office. She earned her BA from Virginia Tech (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude) in political science. She is originally from Yorktown, Virginia. In her free time she enjoys training for and running marathons, cooking, and traveling.