Rosemary Powers
Biographic Data
| ID | 272287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosemary Powers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosemary |
| FAMILY NAME | Powers |
| SIGNATURE | POWERS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1664-3695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 476 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
A West Highland ‘Sheela-na-gig’ and Its Previous Expressions
This article considers two medieval carvings in the Scottish Highland village of Taynuilt, which were moved to the exterior south wall of a church built in 1829, alongside the older, now ruined, building. One figure is a carved head, and was possibly viewed as depicting the original saint of the area. The other is commonly regarded as a sheela-na-gig, but in fact appears to have originally depicted the popular saint of travellers, Saint Christoph…
International Relations Scholars, the Media, and the Dilemma of Consensus
Over the last 15 years, scholars, universities, and foundations have promoted numerous efforts to link the scholarly and policy communities of international relations. Increasing evidence suggests that scholars are succeeding in getting their ideas and findings in the press, and their success bodes well for their ability to influence public and elite opinion. Despite these strides, we know little about when journalists may pick up on academic ide…
Can rising powers reassure? Shifting power, foreign economic policy and perceptions of revisionist intent
How do observers abroad assess the intentions of rising powers? Influential research in international relations suggests that rising powers can reassure others by using both behavior and rhetoric, but there is scarce rigorous evidence on the relative effectiveness of these strategies. In this article, we study whether and to what extent variation in behavioral and rhetorical foreign economic policies of a rising power moderate threat perceptions …
Those truthful in all else have said: Tales of the supernatural in an Icelandic valley
This paper is the final paper in a series of four concerning the beliefs and practice primarily within a family whose memories covered the period from the 1890s onwards. It concerns rural life in northern Iceland as observed in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with some work also undertaken subsequently. The paper narrates folk belief and tales concerning ghosts, both those that are traditional and those more European in aspect, as well as the ‘hi…
Judicialization and Public Support for Compliance with International Commitments
What effect does judicializing international commitments have on incentives to comply with international law? We study this question using experiments embedded in a survey of the American public. We find that non-compliance signals from an international court work precisely as theories of non-compliance anticipate, raising perceptions of legal obligation and support for returning to compliance relative to non-compliance signals from foreign state…
Over the cold and barren sands: Folk singing and folk memories in a northern Icelandic valley
This paper continues from the two previously published in Folk Life, that concern daily and seasonal life, women's work and food production and preservation in the northern Icelandic valley of Vatnsdalur, in the later 1970s and after. It addresses the tunes and words of 'folk-style singing' in spontaneous contexts, in the home, farm work environment and at social events, noting that the practice later diminished, though it ceased only in about 20…
Can Increasing Awareness of Gender Gaps in International Relations Help Close Them? Evidence from a Scholar Ranking Experiment
We report the results of a survey of international relations (IR) scholars on the use of an increasingly common policy designed to close recognition gaps in IR: gender balance in citation (GBC) statements. GBC statements remind and encourage authors submitting work to peer-reviewed outlets to consider the gender balance among the works they cite. We find that these policies enjoyed wide support among IR scholars in our sample countries soon after…
Great Expectations: The Democratic Advantage in Trade Attitudes
Why is trade with some countries more popular than with others? Linking the literature on regime type and trade cooperation with the literature on trade attitudes, the authors argue that the domestic political institutions and cooperative reputations of foreign states condition the willingness of the public and policy elites to deepen trade cooperation. Using survey experiments fielded on the American public and a unique sample of US foreign econ…
Trade politics at the checkout lane: Ethnocentrism and Consumer Preferences
As international trade flourishes, Americans can choose from an increasing number of foreign products even at their local grocery stores, allowing consumers to directly experience the consequences of globalized trade in a simple and intuitive way that does not require much political expertise. Yet, most prior scholarship on political consumerism assumes that consumers are aware of the political and economic implications of their choices at the ch…
The Cult of the Relevant: International Relations Scholars and Policy Engagement Beyond the Ivory Tower
Over the past fifteen years, a narrative has developed that IR scholars have become a “cult of the irrelevant,” with declining influence on and engagement with policy debates. Despite these assertions, the evidence for limited policy engagement has been anecdotal. We investigate the extent of policy engagement—the ways in which IR scholars participate in policy-making processes and/or attempt to shape those processes—by surveying IR scholars dire…
International Status Concerns and Domestic Support for Political Leaders
We study how international status concerns among the public affect support for political leaders, arguing that because status competition is pervasive in social life and because international status competition entails high‐profile displays of scientific or martial savvy, the public is likely to be attuned to the status implications of foreign policy crises. We test this argument in seven survey experiments across four issue areas. The results sh…
Recollections of an Icelandic valley: The Farming and Social Cycle
This paper is the second on life in a northern Icelandic valley in the later 1970s, early 1980s, and subsequently. While the first concerned women’s work, food and clothing, this paper focuses on the farming cycle, the men’s work on farms and on the central uplands; and on the social life and seasonal customs that reflected the farming year. Further papers will concern folk beliefs
The Myth of the Eclectic IR Scholar
What does the decline in paradigmatic self-identification mean for how international relations (IR) scholars think about the world? We answer this question with a 2020 survey among nearly two thousand IR scholars. We uncover a two-dimensional latent theoretical belief space based on scholarly agreement with conjectures about the state, ideas, international institutions, domestic politics, globalization, and racism. The first dimension separates s…
Does Social Science Inform Foreign Policy? Evidence from a Survey of US National Security, Trade, and Development Officials
Scholars continue to debate the relationship of academic international relations to policy. One of the most straightforward ways to discern whether policymakers find IR scholarship relevant to their work is to ask them. We analyzed an elite survey of US policy practitioners to better understand the conditions under which practitioners use academic knowledge in their work. We surveyed officials across three different policy areas: international de…
Feeding the ravens: Clothing, food, women’s work and the recollection of change in northern Iceland, 1976-82
This paper concerns rural life in northern Iceland as observed through participation in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with some work undertaken subsequently. The paper considers farm life, beliefs and communal music in a monoglot (Icelandic only) society where the memories of people stretched back to the 1890s. The three main characters encountered are Lárus, his wife Pétúrina (Figure 1) and their daughter Didda. Thus it documents and reviews w…
Epistemic Communities and Public Support for the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
We study how informing the public about the views of international policy experts shapes public support for international cooperation. Using survey experiments, we test whether variation in levels of support among experts with differing types of domain-specific knowledge can shape public support for a recent and politically salient international treaty: the UNFCCC COP21 Paris Climate Agreement. Our results show that the public is, under certain c…
Is International Relations a Global Discipline? Hegemony, Insularity, and Diversity in the Field
Using data from the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) project, we address several questions posed by students of the international relations (IR) discipline, specifically, whether and to what extent: US scholars, institutions, and journals dominate the field; national communities of IR scholars are insular or inward-looking; and/or the discipline is theoretically, methodologically, and epistemologically diverse. We draw from two…
A Reply to “Reducing Political Bias in Political Science Estimates”
Zigerell (this issue) cites the findings of his recent reanalysis (Zigerell 2015) of the data in our 2013 study of the gender citation gap in the international relations literature to support his claim that our study showed a “preference for statistically-significant results.” We thank Zigerell for so closely engaging with our work. However, we note that he is focused on how his changes to our sample affect a single model in our original paper, h…
Film Review: Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands
The Gender Citation Gap in International Relations
This article investigates the extent to which citation and publication patterns differ between men and women in the international relations (IR) literature. Using data from the Teaching, Research, and International Policy project on peer-reviewed publications between 1980 and 2006, we show that women are systematically cited less than men after controlling for a large number of variables including year of publication, venue of publication, substa…
Norse-Gaelic Contacts: Genres and Transmission
This article identifies three distinct areas of contact between the Norse and the Gaelic worlds in the Viking and High Middle Ages. Considerations are made of the nature of the material and the purposes for which it was written, the ways in which it has been transmitted or preserved, and the period at which transmission occurred. A particular incident that occurred in 1202 and is recorded in various sagas is examined in order to illustrate the di…
More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData
Using Critical Autobiography to Teach the Sociology of Education
L'A. montre que l'autobiographie critique peut constituer un outil pedagogique de premier plan dans le domaine de la sociologie de l'education. Elle presente une experience menee dans une universite americaine. Dans ce cadre, les etudiants furent invites a presenter et a analyser leur experience scolaire. Les etudiants etaient amenes, d'une part, a etudier l'autobiographie de certaines personnalites americaines et, d'autre part, a resituer leur e…
Cultures' structures: Making meaning in the public sphere
A Barrow-Cemetery of the Second Millennium B.C. in Wiltshire, England
The fine round barrow described below was the second of two excavated on behalf of the Ministry of Public Building and Works during the summer of 1961. The site, which is on Upper Chalk with Flint, is the eastern outlier of a linear barrow cemetery on Earl's Farm Down, and lies at 400 feet on the western slope of Beacon Hill (fig. 1) south of the main Amesbury-Andover road (O.S. National Grid: SU/184419, Sheet 167)
The Gender Citation Gap in International Relations
This article investigates the extent to which citation and publication patterns differ between men and women in the international relations (IR) literature. Using data from the Teaching, Research, and International Policy project on peer-reviewed publications between 1980 and 2006, we show that women are systematically cited less than men after controlling for a large number of variables including year of publication, venue of publication, substa…
More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData
International Status Concerns and Domestic Support for Political Leaders
We study how international status concerns among the public affect support for political leaders, arguing that because status competition is pervasive in social life and because international status competition entails high‐profile displays of scientific or martial savvy, the public is likely to be attuned to the status implications of foreign policy crises. We test this argument in seven survey experiments across four issue areas. The results sh…
Rhodesian Man: Notes on a New Femur Fragment
The femur fragment described here was found in the deep cave in No. i Kopje, Broken Hill, on June i8 I92I. In I938 the late Captain A. W. Whittington of Bulawayo informed me that the femur had been found by his wife' the day after Mr T. Zwigelaar had found the nearly complete skull of Homo rhodesiensis. On the afternoon following this now famous discovery it seems that Mrs Whittington was lowered on a rope into the cavity opened up at the lower e…
Great Expectations: The Democratic Advantage in Trade Attitudes
Why is trade with some countries more popular than with others? Linking the literature on regime type and trade cooperation with the literature on trade attitudes, the authors argue that the domestic political institutions and cooperative reputations of foreign states condition the willingness of the public and policy elites to deepen trade cooperation. Using survey experiments fielded on the American public and a unique sample of US foreign econ…
Cultures' structures: Making meaning in the public sphere
Does Social Science Inform Foreign Policy? Evidence from a Survey of US National Security, Trade, and Development Officials
Scholars continue to debate the relationship of academic international relations to policy. One of the most straightforward ways to discern whether policymakers find IR scholarship relevant to their work is to ask them. We analyzed an elite survey of US policy practitioners to better understand the conditions under which practitioners use academic knowledge in their work. We surveyed officials across three different policy areas: international de…
Using Critical Autobiography to Teach the Sociology of Education
L'A. montre que l'autobiographie critique peut constituer un outil pedagogique de premier plan dans le domaine de la sociologie de l'education. Elle presente une experience menee dans une universite americaine. Dans ce cadre, les etudiants furent invites a presenter et a analyser leur experience scolaire. Les etudiants etaient amenes, d'une part, a etudier l'autobiographie de certaines personnalites americaines et, d'autre part, a resituer leur e…
The Cult of the Relevant: International Relations Scholars and Policy Engagement Beyond the Ivory Tower
Over the past fifteen years, a narrative has developed that IR scholars have become a “cult of the irrelevant,” with declining influence on and engagement with policy debates. Despite these assertions, the evidence for limited policy engagement has been anecdotal. We investigate the extent of policy engagement—the ways in which IR scholars participate in policy-making processes and/or attempt to shape those processes—by surveying IR scholars dire…
Epistemic Communities and Public Support for the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
We study how informing the public about the views of international policy experts shapes public support for international cooperation. Using survey experiments, we test whether variation in levels of support among experts with differing types of domain-specific knowledge can shape public support for a recent and politically salient international treaty: the UNFCCC COP21 Paris Climate Agreement. Our results show that the public is, under certain c…
Is International Relations a Global Discipline? Hegemony, Insularity, and Diversity in the Field
Using data from the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) project, we address several questions posed by students of the international relations (IR) discipline, specifically, whether and to what extent: US scholars, institutions, and journals dominate the field; national communities of IR scholars are insular or inward-looking; and/or the discipline is theoretically, methodologically, and epistemologically diverse. We draw from two…
A Barrow-Cemetery of the Second Millennium B.C. in Wiltshire, England
The fine round barrow described below was the second of two excavated on behalf of the Ministry of Public Building and Works during the summer of 1961. The site, which is on Upper Chalk with Flint, is the eastern outlier of a linear barrow cemetery on Earl's Farm Down, and lies at 400 feet on the western slope of Beacon Hill (fig. 1) south of the main Amesbury-Andover road (O.S. National Grid: SU/184419, Sheet 167)
Trade politics at the checkout lane: Ethnocentrism and Consumer Preferences
As international trade flourishes, Americans can choose from an increasing number of foreign products even at their local grocery stores, allowing consumers to directly experience the consequences of globalized trade in a simple and intuitive way that does not require much political expertise. Yet, most prior scholarship on political consumerism assumes that consumers are aware of the political and economic implications of their choices at the ch…
The Disparity Between Known Age and Age as Estimated by Cranial Suture Closure
Judicialization and Public Support for Compliance with International Commitments
What effect does judicializing international commitments have on incentives to comply with international law? We study this question using experiments embedded in a survey of the American public. We find that non-compliance signals from an international court work precisely as theories of non-compliance anticipate, raising perceptions of legal obligation and support for returning to compliance relative to non-compliance signals from foreign state…
Can Increasing Awareness of Gender Gaps in International Relations Help Close Them? Evidence from a Scholar Ranking Experiment
We report the results of a survey of international relations (IR) scholars on the use of an increasingly common policy designed to close recognition gaps in IR: gender balance in citation (GBC) statements. GBC statements remind and encourage authors submitting work to peer-reviewed outlets to consider the gender balance among the works they cite. We find that these policies enjoyed wide support among IR scholars in our sample countries soon after…
Can rising powers reassure? Shifting power, foreign economic policy and perceptions of revisionist intent
How do observers abroad assess the intentions of rising powers? Influential research in international relations suggests that rising powers can reassure others by using both behavior and rhetoric, but there is scarce rigorous evidence on the relative effectiveness of these strategies. In this article, we study whether and to what extent variation in behavioral and rhetorical foreign economic policies of a rising power moderate threat perceptions …
The Myth of the Eclectic IR Scholar
What does the decline in paradigmatic self-identification mean for how international relations (IR) scholars think about the world? We answer this question with a 2020 survey among nearly two thousand IR scholars. We uncover a two-dimensional latent theoretical belief space based on scholarly agreement with conjectures about the state, ideas, international institutions, domestic politics, globalization, and racism. The first dimension separates s…
A Reply to “Reducing Political Bias in Political Science Estimates”
Zigerell (this issue) cites the findings of his recent reanalysis (Zigerell 2015) of the data in our 2013 study of the gender citation gap in the international relations literature to support his claim that our study showed a “preference for statistically-significant results.” We thank Zigerell for so closely engaging with our work. However, we note that he is focused on how his changes to our sample affect a single model in our original paper, h…
The Disparity Between Known Age and Age as Estimated by Cranial Suture Closure
A massive cist with multiple burials of Iron Age date at Lochend, Dunbar: Part II: The Iron Age people of Dunbar
A Barrow-Cemetery of the Second Millennium B.C. in Wiltshire, England
The fine round barrow described below was the second of two excavated on behalf of the Ministry of Public Building and Works during the summer of 1961. The site, which is on Upper Chalk with Flint, is the eastern outlier of a linear barrow cemetery on Earl's Farm Down, and lies at 400 feet on the western slope of Beacon Hill (fig. 1) south of the main Amesbury-Andover road (O.S. National Grid: SU/184419, Sheet 167)
Rhodesian Man: Notes on a New Femur Fragment
The femur fragment described here was found in the deep cave in No. i Kopje, Broken Hill, on June i8 I92I. In I938 the late Captain A. W. Whittington of Bulawayo informed me that the femur had been found by his wife' the day after Mr T. Zwigelaar had found the nearly complete skull of Homo rhodesiensis. On the afternoon following this now famous discovery it seems that Mrs Whittington was lowered on a rope into the cavity opened up at the lower e…
Cultures' structures: Making meaning in the public sphere
Using Critical Autobiography to Teach the Sociology of Education
L'A. montre que l'autobiographie critique peut constituer un outil pedagogique de premier plan dans le domaine de la sociologie de l'education. Elle presente une experience menee dans une universite americaine. Dans ce cadre, les etudiants furent invites a presenter et a analyser leur experience scolaire. Les etudiants etaient amenes, d'une part, a etudier l'autobiographie de certaines personnalites americaines et, d'autre part, a resituer leur e…
More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData
The Gender Citation Gap in International Relations
This article investigates the extent to which citation and publication patterns differ between men and women in the international relations (IR) literature. Using data from the Teaching, Research, and International Policy project on peer-reviewed publications between 1980 and 2006, we show that women are systematically cited less than men after controlling for a large number of variables including year of publication, venue of publication, substa…
Norse-Gaelic Contacts: Genres and Transmission
This article identifies three distinct areas of contact between the Norse and the Gaelic worlds in the Viking and High Middle Ages. Considerations are made of the nature of the material and the purposes for which it was written, the ways in which it has been transmitted or preserved, and the period at which transmission occurred. A particular incident that occurred in 1202 and is recorded in various sagas is examined in order to illustrate the di…
Film Review: Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands
A Reply to “Reducing Political Bias in Political Science Estimates”
Zigerell (this issue) cites the findings of his recent reanalysis (Zigerell 2015) of the data in our 2013 study of the gender citation gap in the international relations literature to support his claim that our study showed a “preference for statistically-significant results.” We thank Zigerell for so closely engaging with our work. However, we note that he is focused on how his changes to our sample affect a single model in our original paper, h…
Is International Relations a Global Discipline? Hegemony, Insularity, and Diversity in the Field
Using data from the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) project, we address several questions posed by students of the international relations (IR) discipline, specifically, whether and to what extent: US scholars, institutions, and journals dominate the field; national communities of IR scholars are insular or inward-looking; and/or the discipline is theoretically, methodologically, and epistemologically diverse. We draw from two…
Epistemic Communities and Public Support for the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
We study how informing the public about the views of international policy experts shapes public support for international cooperation. Using survey experiments, we test whether variation in levels of support among experts with differing types of domain-specific knowledge can shape public support for a recent and politically salient international treaty: the UNFCCC COP21 Paris Climate Agreement. Our results show that the public is, under certain c…
The Myth of the Eclectic IR Scholar
What does the decline in paradigmatic self-identification mean for how international relations (IR) scholars think about the world? We answer this question with a 2020 survey among nearly two thousand IR scholars. We uncover a two-dimensional latent theoretical belief space based on scholarly agreement with conjectures about the state, ideas, international institutions, domestic politics, globalization, and racism. The first dimension separates s…
Does Social Science Inform Foreign Policy? Evidence from a Survey of US National Security, Trade, and Development Officials
Scholars continue to debate the relationship of academic international relations to policy. One of the most straightforward ways to discern whether policymakers find IR scholarship relevant to their work is to ask them. We analyzed an elite survey of US policy practitioners to better understand the conditions under which practitioners use academic knowledge in their work. We surveyed officials across three different policy areas: international de…
Feeding the ravens: Clothing, food, women’s work and the recollection of change in northern Iceland, 1976-82
This paper concerns rural life in northern Iceland as observed through participation in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with some work undertaken subsequently. The paper considers farm life, beliefs and communal music in a monoglot (Icelandic only) society where the memories of people stretched back to the 1890s. The three main characters encountered are Lárus, his wife Pétúrina (Figure 1) and their daughter Didda. Thus it documents and reviews w…
Can Increasing Awareness of Gender Gaps in International Relations Help Close Them? Evidence from a Scholar Ranking Experiment
We report the results of a survey of international relations (IR) scholars on the use of an increasingly common policy designed to close recognition gaps in IR: gender balance in citation (GBC) statements. GBC statements remind and encourage authors submitting work to peer-reviewed outlets to consider the gender balance among the works they cite. We find that these policies enjoyed wide support among IR scholars in our sample countries soon after…
Great Expectations: The Democratic Advantage in Trade Attitudes
Why is trade with some countries more popular than with others? Linking the literature on regime type and trade cooperation with the literature on trade attitudes, the authors argue that the domestic political institutions and cooperative reputations of foreign states condition the willingness of the public and policy elites to deepen trade cooperation. Using survey experiments fielded on the American public and a unique sample of US foreign econ…
Trade politics at the checkout lane: Ethnocentrism and Consumer Preferences
As international trade flourishes, Americans can choose from an increasing number of foreign products even at their local grocery stores, allowing consumers to directly experience the consequences of globalized trade in a simple and intuitive way that does not require much political expertise. Yet, most prior scholarship on political consumerism assumes that consumers are aware of the political and economic implications of their choices at the ch…
The Cult of the Relevant: International Relations Scholars and Policy Engagement Beyond the Ivory Tower
Over the past fifteen years, a narrative has developed that IR scholars have become a “cult of the irrelevant,” with declining influence on and engagement with policy debates. Despite these assertions, the evidence for limited policy engagement has been anecdotal. We investigate the extent of policy engagement—the ways in which IR scholars participate in policy-making processes and/or attempt to shape those processes—by surveying IR scholars dire…
International Status Concerns and Domestic Support for Political Leaders
We study how international status concerns among the public affect support for political leaders, arguing that because status competition is pervasive in social life and because international status competition entails high‐profile displays of scientific or martial savvy, the public is likely to be attuned to the status implications of foreign policy crises. We test this argument in seven survey experiments across four issue areas. The results sh…
Recollections of an Icelandic valley: The Farming and Social Cycle
This paper is the second on life in a northern Icelandic valley in the later 1970s, early 1980s, and subsequently. While the first concerned women’s work, food and clothing, this paper focuses on the farming cycle, the men’s work on farms and on the central uplands; and on the social life and seasonal customs that reflected the farming year. Further papers will concern folk beliefs
Judicialization and Public Support for Compliance with International Commitments
What effect does judicializing international commitments have on incentives to comply with international law? We study this question using experiments embedded in a survey of the American public. We find that non-compliance signals from an international court work precisely as theories of non-compliance anticipate, raising perceptions of legal obligation and support for returning to compliance relative to non-compliance signals from foreign state…
Over the cold and barren sands: Folk singing and folk memories in a northern Icelandic valley
This paper continues from the two previously published in Folk Life, that concern daily and seasonal life, women's work and food production and preservation in the northern Icelandic valley of Vatnsdalur, in the later 1970s and after. It addresses the tunes and words of 'folk-style singing' in spontaneous contexts, in the home, farm work environment and at social events, noting that the practice later diminished, though it ceased only in about 20…
International Relations Scholars, the Media, and the Dilemma of Consensus
Over the last 15 years, scholars, universities, and foundations have promoted numerous efforts to link the scholarly and policy communities of international relations. Increasing evidence suggests that scholars are succeeding in getting their ideas and findings in the press, and their success bodes well for their ability to influence public and elite opinion. Despite these strides, we know little about when journalists may pick up on academic ide…
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