Catherine Weaver

Kate Weaver

Associate Professor of Public Affairs

Education:
Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003
Research Areas:
International Development
Gender and Development
Global Economic Governance
Evaluation Methods
Teaching Areas:
Policy Process and Institutions
Development Policy
Research and Empirical Methods

Catherine (Kate) Weaver is Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and Co-Director of Innovations for Peace and Development at The University of Texas at Ausin. She is a distinguished scholar and founder of the Next Generation Scholars Program at the Strauss Center for International Security & Law. She previously served as LBJ's associate dean for students, associate dean for academics, and graduate advisor for the Ph.D. and MGPS programs.

Dr. Weaver researches transparency in international development aid, reforming global economic governance, and the politics of data. She has developed methods to track and dynamically geomap aid and climate adaptation, and is currently completing two book projects on Policy Hype Cycles: Global Development and the Transparency Revolution and Representation in Global Governance

Dr. Weaver co-directs (with Drs. Daniel Nielson) Innovations for Peace and Development, an interdisciplinary research lab devoted to alleviating global poverty and peacebuilding. She currently serves on the Board of Advocates for the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty, and previously served on the Board of Directors of Bread for the World.  In 2022-23, Dr. Weaver was the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Global Economic Governance, University of Waterloo and a Visiting Research Fellow, Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs, Brown University. 

Dr. Weaver is author of the award-winning Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform (Princeton University Press), and numerous articles and book chapters in outlets such as American Political Science Review, International OrganizationReview of International Political EconomyReview of International OrganizationsJournal of Experimental Political Science, Ethics and International AffairsGlobal Governance, Cambridge University Press, and Oxford University Press. She is co-editor of Handbook of Global Economic Governance (with Manuela Moschella, Routledge) and International Political Economy and the Transatlantic Divide (with Nicola Phillips, Routledge).

Courses Taught
Spring 2024 - 59645 - PA 388K - Advanced Topics in Public Policy
Spring 2024 - 59260 - PA 682GB - Policy Research Project on Global Policy Issues
Fall 2024 - 60415 - PA 393C - Foundations in Public Policy
Fall 2024 - 60100 - PA 682GA - Policy Research Project on Global Policy Issues
Fall 2023 - 61265 - PA 393C - Foundations in Public Policy
Fall 2023 - 61015 - PA 682GA - GLOBAL DISINFORMATION
Spring 2021 - 60638 - PA 388K - Advanced Topics in Public Policy
Fall 2021 - 61209 - PA 397C - Advanced Empirical Methods for Policy Analysis
Fall 2021 - 61175 - PA 095 - Public Affairs Colloquium
Spring 2019 - 59930 - PA 682GB - Policy Research Project on Global Policy Issues
Spring 2018 - 60850 - PA 388K – Advanced Topics in Public Policy
Fall 2018 - 60495 - PA 325 - Topics in Policy
Fall 2018 - 60615 - PA 682GA - Policy Research Project on Global Policy Issues
Spring 2017 - 61200 - PA682GB - Policy Research Project on Global Policy Issues
Spring 2017 - 61475 - PA388K - Advanced Topics in Public Policy
Fall 2017 - 60647 - PA 325 – Topics in Public Policy
Fall 2017 - 60917 - PA 388K – Advanced Topics in Public Policy
Fall 2017 - 61100 - PA 397C - Advanced Empirical Methods for Policy Analysis
Fall 2016 - 60570 - PA682GA - Policy Research Project on Global Policy Issues
Fall 2016 - 60960 - PA397C - Advanced Empirical Methods for Policy Analysis
Spring 2015 - 60995 - PA682GB - Policy Research Project on Global Policy Issues
Fall 2015 - 59725 - PA325 - Topics in Policy
Spring 2014 - 63520 - PA388K - Advanced Topics in Public Policy
Fall 2014 - 62445 - PA682GA - Policy Research Project on Global Policy Issues
Fall 2014 - 62610 - PA388K - Advanced Topics in Public Policy
Spring 2013 - 62655 - PA682GB - Policy Research Project on Global Policy Issues
Spring 2013 - 62810 - PA388K - Advanced Topics in Public Policy
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