Christian
Martin
Visiting Assistant Professor
2-575 Kresge Hall
1880 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-2203
847-467-7067
christian-martin@northwestern.edu
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Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences • Northwestern University
Christian Martin is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of German and the Department of Political Science. He received his doctorate in the Social Sciences in the year 2000 from the University of Konstanz, Germany. Since then, he has held positions at the University of Konstanz, the Max Planck Institute of Economics (Jena, Germany), the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand), and, before joining Northwestern faculty, at the University of Hamburg (Germany).
Christian Martin’s research interests include international political economy, processes of policy diffusion, and agent based modeling of social phenomena. He is the author of the book “Die doppelte Transformation” (“Double Transformation”) that explains developing countries’ foreign economic policy choices as the effect of domestic institutional configurations and exogenous influences. He has published in, among other journals, Electoral Studies, and Public Choice.
In the Fall quarter, Christian Martin will teach German 224-0 Contemporary Germany: Major German Cities after 1945: Berlin, Hamburg, Munich. The course will discuss the similarities and differences between these cities.
Christian Martin is also the local representative of the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD).
