Kimberly A. Twist
210 Barrows Hall • Berkeley, CA 94720
kim.twist@berkeley.edu • 610.368.5314 • www.kimtwist.com
Education
Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley, Political Science
Dissertation: The Cost of Exclusion: The Mainstream Right and Far Right in Western
Europe
Fields: Comparative Politics, Methodology & Formal Theory, Western Europe
Committee: Jonah Levy (Chair), Jason Wittenberg, Jack Citrin, and Katerina Linos
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Political Science (May 2009)
M.A., New York University, European Politics and Policy (May 2006)
Supervisor: Willem Maas
B.A., New York University, with departmental honors (May 2005)
Majors: International Relations and Journalism & Mass Communication
Supervisors: Alastair Smith and Fiona McGillivray (Politics Department)
Work in progress
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Elite messages and opinion change: A Comparison of Observational and
Experimental Methods (with Katerina Linos, Boalt School of Law)
o Received Honorable Mention Award, 2012 Conference on Empirical Legal
Studies (CELS)
The foundations of individuals' party perceptions
Messages vs. actions: Western European parties and immigration
Pre-electoral coalition statements: Party behavior and voters' responses
Mainstream and extreme parties in majoritarian systems
Research grants
2013-2014
2012-2013
Summer 2012
2012-2013
Spring 2012
2011-2012
Spring 2011
Simpson Research Fellowship in International and Comparative
Studies, UC Berkeley ($12,000)
Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National
Science Foundation ($12,000)
Graduate Division Summer Grant, UC Berkeley ($3,500)
BORDERS Young Researcher Award, National Center for Border
Security and Immigration ($12,000)
Daimler Dissertation Award, Institute for European Studies, UC
Berkeley ($10,000)
Austrian Marshall Plan Fellowship ($5,000)
Short-stay research grant, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
(Eur €5,000)
Summer 2010
Pre-dissertation research grant, European Union Center of
Excellence, UC Berkeley (Eur €3,500)
Other fellowships and awards
Spring 2014
Fall 2013
Summer 2013
Summer 2012
Fall 2010
Summer 2010
Summer 2009
August 2008
May 2005
May 2005
Harrell Rodgers Graduate Student Travel Grant, Midwest Political
Science Association
American Political Science Association (APSA) travel grant
Conference travel grant, Graduate Assembly, UC Berkeley
Graduate Division Travel Grant, UC Berkeley
Conference travel grant, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Conference travel grant, Graduate Assembly, UC Berkeley
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (French)
UC Berkeley Graduate Fellowship
Dean’s Award for International Relations, Department of
International Relations, NYU (awarded to the top student in the
major)
David James Burrell Prize for Media Criticism, Department of
Journalism, NYU (awarded to the top student in the major)
Teaching awards
2010-11
Fall 2010
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) Award, UC
Berkeley (awarded to the top ten percent of GSIs, campus-wide)
Commendation for Excellence in Teaching, Travers Department of
Political Science, UC Berkeley
Teaching experience
As Graduate Student Instructor (GSI), UC Berkeley
Spring 2012
Spring 2011
Fall 2010
Spring 2010
Fall 2009
PS161: Public Opinion, Voting Behavior, and Elections (Head GSI)
PS164a: Psychology of Politics
PS2: Introduction to Comparative Politics
PS3: Introduction to Empirical Methods and Quantitative Analysis
PS122a: Politics of European Integration
Pedagogical experience
Fall 2012
Fall 2010
Social science cluster workshop leader, Teaching Conference for
First-Time GSIs, UC Berkeley
Panelist for first-time GSI pedagogy course, UC Berkeley
Other experience
2012–2013
Spring 2010
Fall 2009
Mentor for undergraduates writing honors theses in political
science
Guest lecturer for PS3, “The Comparative Method in Political
Science”
Guest lecturer for PS122a, “The Far Right in Eastern Europe”
Spring 2007
Guest lecturer for EuroSim, “Politics and History of the European
Union,” New York University
Research assistantships
2010–2012
2009–2011
2009–2011
2006–2008
Project on policy diffusion in Europe, Katerina Linos (UC
Berkeley)
Project editor, Political Methodology Program (UC Berkeley)
Projects on interwar Europe and ethnic conflict, Jason Wittenberg
(UC Berkeley)
Project on French national identity, Elise Langan (New York
University)
Training
Summer 2010
Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, Syracuse, NY
Conference presentations
American Political Science Association: 2013, 2012 (cancelled), 2010, 2008
NYU Center for Experimental Social Science: 2013
Midwest Political Science Association: 2014, 2013
Western U.S. Graduate Student Research Workshop on the EU: 2013
Western Political Science Association: 2009
Northeastern Political Science Association: 2007
European Union Studies Association Graduate Student Conference: 2006
Research interests
Political parties in Western Europe (particularly right-wing parties); elections and
voting behavior; immigration and public opinion; experimental methodology.
Service
2012–13
2009–13
2010–11
2008–14
2008–14
2008-09
UC Berkeley Comparative Politics search committee
President, Political Science Graduate Student Association
(PSGSA), UC Berkeley
Co-Organizer, Women in Political Science, UC Berkeley
Chair, Political Science Mentorship and Orientation Committee
Graduate student coordinator, UC Berkeley Political Science
Admitted Student Weekend
Secretary/Treasurer, PSGSA