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Curriculum Vitae

LOUISA L. ROBERTS

Ohio State University Department of Sociology

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. Candidate, Ohio State University, Sociology Department

General Examination: Pass, Fall 2011

M.A., University of Chicago, Master of Arts in the Social Science Program, Summer 2008

Master s Thesis: The Impact of Secularization on Britain s Conservative Party: 1964-

2005

B.A., Wesleyan University, Departments of History and Biology, Spring 2002

Majors: History and Biology

Honors in History

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Socio-cultural change, political sociology, historical sociology, globalization

ARTICLES IN PROGRESS

Roberts, Louisa. Normative Disconnect in the World Polity? Investigating the

Relationship

between Globalized Laws and Local Values.

Roberts, Louisa. The Influence of Declining Religiosity on Left/Right Voting: The Case

of

Britain.

BOOK IN PROGRESS

Brustein, William and Louisa Roberts. Socialism of Fools? Leftist Origins of Modern Anti-

Semitism. University of Cambridge Press.

CONFERENCE PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS

Roberts, Louisa. 2012. Leftist Anti-Semitism and the Influence of Nationalistic Thought

in

France, Germany, and Britain from the French Revolution to World War II. Conference

on Changing Patterns of Nationalism, Ethnocentrism, and Immigrant Accommodation in

st

the 21 Century. (Miami, FL) March.

Roberts, Louisa. 2012. Normative Disconnect in the World Polity? Investigating the

Disconnect

between Globalized Laws and Local Values. Political Economy Working Group

(Columbus, Ohio) February.

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Roberts, Louisa. 2011. Moral Dissonance in the World Polity: The Disconnect between What

People around the World Believe and the Laws by which They Are Governed. Annual

Meeting of the American Sociological Association (Las Vegas, NV) August.

Roberts, Louisa and William Brustein. 2011. The Socialism of Fools? Leftist Origins of

Modern

Anti-Semitism. Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives: An International Scholars

Conference (Bloomington, IN) April.

Roberts, Louisa. 2010. The Impact of Secularization on Electoral Support for Britain s

Conservative Party. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Political

Culture Regular Session (Atlanta, GA) August.

Roberts, Louisa. 2010. The Decline of Support for Britain s Conservative Party between

1964

and 2005: Was Decreasing Religiosity a Contributing Factor? Joint Annual Meeting of

The Midwest Sociological Society and the North Central Sociological Association

(Chicago, IL) March.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant for William Brustein, Ohio State University.

September 2010-Present

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Delegate for the Department of Sociology, OSU Council of Graduate Students

2012

Committee Member, OSU Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility

2012

Committee Member, Graduate Student Committee of the Global and Transnational Sociology

Section of the American Sociological Association

2010-11

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Meridian Institute, Washington, DC

Research Associate and News Editor, November 2004September 2007

Research Assistant, June 2003November 2004

Wrote two successful grant proposals for a total of $500,000 from USAID and Canada s

International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The grants funded Food Security and Ag-

Biotech News, an e-news service for the international development community. Wrote Food

Security and Ag-Biotech News daily. Wrote and periodically updated a report for the IDRC

on

the donors and NGOs involved in biosafety capacity-building in sub-Saharan Africa.

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