Please join us for our first meeting of the 2014-2015 academic year! Robert Woodberry is associate professor of political science at the National University of Singapore and current visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. He will be presenting a paper entitled “Aid that Works: Missionaries, Economic Development and the ‘Reversal of Fortunes.'” Yeonju Lee will serve as discussant. Please come prepared for lively discussion and light refreshments.

The paper is no longer available on this blog. If you would like to regularly receive the workshop papers, please contact the workshop coordinator, Mark Deming, in order to be added to the workshop email list. Mark can be reached at jmdeming@uchicago.edu.

The workshop meets on Wednesdays from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. All workshop meetings are in the seminar room of the Wilder House (5811 South Kenwood Avenue). Please contact Mark Deming (jmdeming@uchicago.edu) if you have any questions or require assistance.

The CPW calendar for Fall 2014 is now available. To download a PDF version of the calendar, either click here or see the link “Fall 2014 Workshop Calendar” on the right-hand side of your screen.

We will kick off the new academic year on Wednesday, October 8th, with a paper presented by Robert Woodberry. Professor Woodberry is Associate Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore and a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institution of International Studies. His work examines the impact of Protestant and Catholic missionary activity on the long-term economic and political development of former colonies.

If you are interested in attending the workshop, please email Mark Deming (jmdeming@uchicago.edu), the CPW coordinator, in order to be added to the CPW list serve. This year (2014-15), we will be meeting on weeks 2 though 8 of each quarter. The workshop runs from 5:00 to 7:00pm at the Wilder House (5811 S. Kenwood Ave.). Papers are distributed roughly one week in advance.

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop!