SIMUN XXIII KEYNOTE SPEAKER

ANDREW ROBERTS

Andrew Roberts is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. He grew up in New Jersey and attended the same high school as Jon Stewart. After studying economics at Williams College, he taught junior high math in Kansas City and ESL in the Czech Republic. He then returned to study political science at Princeton where he received his PhD.

His research focuses geographically on the postcommunist region and topically on the functioning and quality of democracy. Some of his recents projects have analyzed the role of billionaires in politics, the causes of women’s representation, and biases in voting for soccer awards. Meanwhile he has taught courses on comparative politics, the politics of Europe, the politics of capitalism, democratic transitions, constitutional design, and fixing US politics.

Besides political science, he is interested in education and popular culture. He has written The Thinking Student’s Guide to College: 75 Tips for Getting a Better Education (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo8954347.html) which was published by the University of Chicago Press. He is also the author From Good King Wenceslas to the Good Soldier Svejk: A Dictionary of Czech Popular Culture. More information about his work can be found at his website (https://sites.google.com/site/robertspolisci/welcome?authuser=0). His latest ideas are posted on his blog “A Political Scientist’s Progress” (https://andrewroberts.substack.com/).