Contemporary Authors

PERSONAL

Born January 5, 1976, in Louisville, Kentucky.

EDUCATION:

Centre College (Danville, KY), B.A., 1998; Duke University, M.A., 2002, Ph.D., 2006.

ADDRESS

• Office - 100E Eggers Hall, Maxwell School of Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1020.

CAREER

Duke University, graduate instructor, 2005-06; University of Chicago, lecturer and postdoctoral fellow, 2006-08; Syracuse University, Department of Political Science at the Maxwell School, assistant professor, 2008-15, associate professor, 2015, director of graduate studies.

Has given invited lectures and conducted workshops at numerous institutions and presented papers at conferences. Has served as referee for political journals and on search, tenure, promotion, and admissions committees for the University of Chicago and Duke University.

MEMBER:

American Political Science Association, European Union Studies Association, Midwest Political Science Association.

AWARDS:

Abdul Rifai Award, Kentucky Political Science Association, 1998, for best conference paper by an undergraduate at the Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Political Science Association; National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2001–04; James B. Christoph Prize, British Politics Group of the American Political Science Association, 2004, for best conference paper on British politics by a graduate student; Duke University International Research Travel Award, 2005; Party Politics Prize, European Consortium for Political Research, for the best paper at the 2004 Ph.D. Summer School on European Parties and Party Systems, 2005; Katherine Stern Dissertation Year Fellowship, Duke University, 2004-05; European Union Studies Association Prize for Best Dissertation in EU Studies from the European Union Studies Association, 2007; Maxwell School Appleby-Mosher Research Grant, Syracuse University, 2009–14, 2015–16. 

WRITINGS

• The European Union and the Rise of Regionalist Parties, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 2015

Has contributed chapters to European Integration and Political Conflict, edited by Gary Marks and Marco R. Steenbergen, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 2004; Public Opinion and Polling Around the World, Volume 2, edited by J.G. Geer, ABC-CLIO (Denver, CO), 2004; International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, Volume 1, edited by William A. Darity, Jr., Macmillan Reference (Detroit, MI), 2008; and Europe’s Contending Identities: Supranationalism, Ethnoregionalism, Religion, and New Nationalism, edited by Andrew C. Gould and Anthony M. Messina, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 2014.

Has contributed articles to Party Politics, Research and Politics, Journal of Politics, Social Science Journal, European Union Politics, John C. Young Scholars Journal, and APSA-CP.

Maintains a Web log.

SIDELIGHTS

Seth K. Jolly was born January 5, 1976, in Louisville, Kentucky. He attended Centre College (Danville, Kentucky), where he earned a B.A. in government and economics in 1998. He then entered Duke University, from which he received an M.A. in political science in 2002 and a Ph.D., also in political science, in 2006. He worked at Duke University as a graduate instructor from 2005 to 2006 and then at the University of Chicago as lecturer and postdoctoral fellow from 2006 to 2008. In 2008 Jolly accepted a position as assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, moving up to associate professor in 2015. He is also director of graduate studies. Jolly’s research focuses on European politics and the European Union, comparative political parties, and nationalism, and he teaches courses in those fields as well as in ethnic conflict and globalization.

Jolly has contributed chapters to several books, including European Integration and Political Conflict, Public Opinion and Polling Around the World, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, and Europe’s Contending Identities: Supranationalism, Ethnoregionalism, Religion, and New Nationalism. He has also written articles for numerous political journals and has given workshops and conducted workshops at a variety of institutions and presented papers at conferences. Jolly has served as referee for political journals and on search, tenure, promotion, and admissions committees for the University of Chicago and Duke University.

In 2015 he published his first book, The European Union and the Rise of Regionalist Parties, in which he examines national elections held in fourteen European countries between 1950 and 2010. Jolly looks at how regionalist parties gain a foothold in politics in a climate of regional integration. Writing in Choice, B.A. Yesilada called attention to Jolly’s argument that “European integration is not an active driver of regionalist modernizations but creates permissive conditions.” He termed the book “essential” for undergraduate and graduate students. Anwen Elias, contributor to EUSA Review of Books, pointed out that Western European calls for “self-government” have “posed a challenge not just to the territorial integrity of states, but also to the existing European political order.” He further remarked that “territorial empowerment and European integration have often been perceived as interlinked and mutually reinforcing processes” that can alter balances of power and authority. Elias contended that Jolly’s book is not the “definitive work on the linkage between regionalist party mobilization and European integration.” Even so, it is a “significant and important contribution to the extant literature, and essential reading for scholars of party and territorial politics alike.” 

BIOCRIT

PERIODICALS

• Choice, April, 2016, B.A. Yesilada, review of The European Union and the Rise of Regionalist Parties, p. 1232.

ONLINE

• EUSA Review of Books, https://www.eustudies.org/eusa/ (March 21, 2017), Anwen Elias, review of The European Union and the Rise of Regionalist Parties.

• Seth K. Jolly, http://sethkjolly.com (April 25, 2017), author home page.

• Syracuse University, Maxwell School Web site, https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/ (March 21, 2017), faculty profile.