Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili

Teaching

University of Pittsburgh
PhD

State Building and Political Order

PhD

Institutions and Development

PhD

Qualitative Research Design and Methods

PhD

Field Seminar in International Development

MA

The Political Economy of Central Eurasia

Security, foreign policy, and development.

MA

Islam, Politics, and the State

MA

Political Economy Analysis for Global Affairs

MA

Comparative Governance

MA

Post-conflict Reconstruction

MA

Global Governance

Short

Traditional Authority in a Modern World

One-week intensive with field visits to indigenous regions · Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala, 2022.

Advising

She chairs and serves on dissertation committees at GSPIA and across the University of Pittsburgh — in economics, political science, law, and computing — as well as at other universities. Current dissertation chairs include Kamran Hakiman, Hasina Jalal, and Tim Wood (GSPIA).

Prospective students — write to me

Recent supervision

Pengshan Pan · windfalls, environment, and local political economy · 2024
Blaire Modic · property rights, corruption, and courts in Costa Rica · 2021

Committee service

GSPIA · Economics · Political Science · School of Law · School of Computing and Information · external committees at Columbia, Helsinki, and the University of Washington