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Lora Anne Viola is Professor of politics at the Freie Universität Berlin. She received a PhD in Political Science and a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Economics from Columbia University, New York. She has been a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute and a Senior Researcher at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). She is co-editor of the volume Historical Institutionalism and International Relations: Explaining Institutional Development in World Politics (Oxford University Press, 2016). Her article “Putting Path Dependence in Its Place” (Journal of Theoretical Politics, with Thomas Rixen) was awarded the American Political Science Association’s 2016 Alexander L. George Award. In addition, she has published articles investigating sources of institutional change, legitimacy dynamics in international organizations, global financial governance, institutional inequality, and US foreign policy. Currently she is working on a new DFG-funded project titled Trust and Transparency in an Age of Surveillance. Her monograph, Inequality in International Institutions, is forthcoming 2019 with Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in International Relations Series.
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