Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future

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Strom Thacker

Research Fellow
Associate Professor, International Relations, Boston Univeristy
sthacker@bu.edu
617 353 7160

Expertise

Latin America, governance and democracy, political economy, human development.

Strom ThackerBiography

Prof. Thacker has published articles in the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, Business and Politics, International Organization, the Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, and World Politics. He also has an ongoing interest in the politics of foreign aid and lending, and the International Monetary Fund. He is a Faculty Affiliate of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and a Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University.

Prof. Thacker has been a Visiting Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University, a Susan Louise Dyer Peace Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and a Fulbright Scholar. He has also received research grants funded by BU's SPRInG program, BU's Pardee Center , the Mellon Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, and the University of North Carolina . He taught at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) before his appointment to Boston University.