Department of Political Science
Encina Hall West, Rm. 310
Stanford, CA 94305-6044

tomz@stanford.edu
(650) 725-4031 (voice)

Research Interests
International relations; political economy; public opinion; methodology

Michael Tomz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University and Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Center for International Development, as well as an affiliate of the Social Science History Institute and the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences. He became an affiliated faculty nember of CISAC in February 2012. His research interests include the fields of international relations, public opinion and quantitative methods. He also writes on political economy and develops statistical software. His computer program, CLARIFY, won the Okidata Award in 1999 for the best research software in political science.

Prior to coming to Stanford in 2001, he held the MacArthur Fellowship in transnational security. He received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2003 and was awarded the Allan V. Cox Medal for Faculty Excellence Fostering Undergraduate Research in 2005.

Tomz is the author of Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt across Three Centuries (Princeton University Press, 2007), and Modern Political Economy and Latin America: Theory and Policy, edited with Jeffry Frieden and Manuel Pastor (Westview Press, 2000). He has also published numerous articles in journals such as International Organization, American Journal of Political Science, and American Political Science Review.

Tomz earned a B.S. in International Relations from Georgetown University in 1992, a M.Phil. in Politics as a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 2001.

Other affiliations
Stanford Center for International Development