CV: /cv/dyuravlivker.pdf
BA:McGill
University (2002, Joint Honors, First Class, History and Political Science)
MSC: London
School of Economics (2003, History of International Relations)
PGCE: Institute
of Education, University of London (2004, Post-Graduate Certificate in Education,
Social Sciences with Humanities)
Expected Graduation: 2013
First field: American
Politics
Second field: Public
Policy
Biography: Originally
from Chicago, I'm a first-generation American who grew up here in Maryland from
the age of four. I attended McGill University in Montreal and then headed to
London, England for graduate school at the LSE. I loved London so much that I
stayed there to earn a teaching certificate and then taught Government/Politics
and History for four years on the city outskirts at Chigwell School - a school
so old that William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, was a student there over
350 years ago. (Reportedly, Penn had his Quaker epiphany in what is now the careers
center, but despite sending many students there, none of them had any similar
epiphanies.)
While I love teaching, I wanted to pursue further research, so I returned
to the Washington, DC area in August 2008. After a year at Georgetown's School
of Public Policy, I transferred to the Ph.D. program here at College Park. I
love being back in the States, and it's fun living just a few miles from where
I grew up and introducing my British wife, Anita, to everything that the DC area
has to offer.
Research interests: U.S.
Congress, U.S. presidency, U.S. foreign policy, voting behavior, electoral reform,
comparative politics
Other interests: History,
film, theatre, classical music, photography, running, travel, The West Wing,
Calvin & Hobbes
Words of wisdom: "The
problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible
and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather
than off the public." —Robert F. Kennedy
"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were;
and I say, 'Why not?'" —George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
Email: dror at
gvpt•umd•edu
