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Matthew R. Auer

Matthew R. Auer

Professor and Dean, Hutton Honors College


Education
Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1996
M.S., Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1994
MALD, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Medford, MA, 1990
A.B., (Magna Cum Laude), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1988

Awards, Honors & Certifications

  • Fellow, Academic Leadership Program, Committee on Institutional Cooperation (Big Ten Universities), 2007-2008
  • Appointee, IU LeaD, 2006
  • President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Indiana University, 2005
  • Trustee Teaching Award, Indiana University, 2001, 2002, 2005
  • Outstanding Instructor, Undergraduate Program, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, 1998, 2001, 2004
  • Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching Award, 2002
  • Myres McDougal Prize, Society for the Policy Sciences, 2001. For exemplary policy sciences research published in 2000 (awarded for "Who Participates in Global Environmental Governance? Partial Answers from International Relations Theory," Policy Sciences 33(2): 155-180)
  • Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Indiana University, 2000
  • Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, for exemplary contributions to the teaching mission of SPEA and Indiana University, 1997, 1998, 1999

Professional Interest
Intersection of foreign aid and sustainable development; international forest politics; energy efficiency; environmental education

Selected Publications
Full Vita

  • “Better Science and Worse Diplomacy: Negotiating the Cleanup of the Swedish and Finnish Pulp and Paper Industry,” International Environmental Agreements; Politics, Law and Economics (2009, in press).
  • “Sense of Place and the Physical Senses in Outdoor Environmental Learning,” in Reynolds, Heather L., Brondizio, Eduardo S., and Robinson, Jennifer M. (Eds.), Teaching Environmental Literacy: Across Campus and Across the Curriculum (2009, in press). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
  • “Presidential Environmental Appointees in Comparative Perspective,” Public Administration Review, (2008). 68(1): 68-80.
  • “Sensory Perception, Rationalism, and Outdoor Environmental Education,” International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, (2008). 17(1): 6-12.
  • “More Aid, Better Institutions, or Both?” Sustainability Science, (2007). 2(2): 189-197.
  • “Policy Sciences in Critical Perspective,” in Jack Rabin, Gerald J. Miller, and W. Bartley Hildreth (eds.), Handbook of Public Administration, (2007). London: Taylor & Francis: 545-566.
  • “Forest Law Enforcement and Governance: Resolve Needed from All Sides” The Georgetown Public Policy Review, (2006). 11(1): 57-67. (With Catherine Karr-Colque, Jan McAlpine, and Brian Doench).
  • “Contexts, Multiple Methods, and Values in the Study of Common-Pool Resources,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, (2006). 25(1): 215-227.
  • “The Five Senses Approach to Outdoor Experiential Learning,” International Journal of Learning, (2006). 13(5): 163-166.
  • “Incentives for Contractors in Aid-Supported Activities,” in Clark C. Gibson, Elinor Ostrom, Sujai Shivakumar, and Krister Andersson (Eds.), The Samaritan’s Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid, (2005). Oxford: Oxford University Press: 160-170. (With Krister Andersson).
  • “Foreign Aid and Foreign Direct Investment: Key Players in the Environmental Restoration of Central and Eastern Europe,” in John Maxwell and Rafael Reuveny (Eds.), Trade and Environment: Theory and Policy in the Context of EU Enlargement and Transition Economies, (2005). London: Edward Elgar: 182-206. (With Rafael Reuveny).
  • “Foreign Aid to Promote Energy Efficiency in Mexico: An Institutional Analysis,” Journal of Energy and Development, (2005). 31(1): 85-100.
  • “Prospects for Improved Air Quality at the Regional Level in Poland,” European Urban and Regional Studies, (2005). 12(2): 133-148.
  • “Taking Stock of the International Arrangement on Forests,” Journal of Forestry, (2005). 103(3): 126-133. (With Catherine Karr-Colque, and Safiya Samman).
  • Restoring Cursed Earth: Appraising Environmental Policy Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. (2004). Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield.
  • “The Study of Global Environmental Politics in the Information Age,” in Michael Maniates (Ed.), Encountering Global Environmental Politics: Teaching, Learning, and Empowering Knowledge, (2003). Oxford, UK: Rowman and Littlefield pp. 181-195.
  • “Reflections on the Craft of Advising: Expert Advice and U.S. Foreign Aid Policy-Making,” International Studies Perspectives, (2003). 4(2): 211-227.
  • “Policy Sciences and the Maverick Career.” Policy Sciences, (2003). 36(1): 37-45.
  • “Nontimber Forest Values: The ‘Understory’ of the International Tropical Timber Organization,” Journal of Forestry, (2003). 101(5): 42-45. (With Christopher Farley).