Rate My Professor David Cingranelli

David L. Cingranelli is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he has been a faculty member in the Political Science Department since 1978, advancing from assistant professor (1978-1986) to associate professor (1986-1997) and full professor (1997-present). He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977 and a B.A. from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 1971. As Co-Director of the Human Rights Institute at Binghamton University, Cingranelli developed some of the earliest quantitative measures of national human rights practices alongside his students. He co-directed the Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project until 2012, the largest and most widely used human rights dataset, which received the American Political Science Association's Best New Dataset in Comparative Politics award in 2006. He now co-directs the CI-RIGHTS data project, successor to CIRI covering 1981-2015, and contributed to the WorkR dataset providing scores for eight worker rights from 1994-2010.

Cingranelli's research specializes in human rights theory and measurement, government respect for physical integrity rights, economic and social rights, and the human rights impacts of IMF and World Bank structural adjustment lending in developing countries. His major publications include the book Human Rights and Structural Adjustment: The Impact of the IMF and World Bank (2007, Cambridge University Press, with M. Rodwan Abouharb), which demonstrated negative effects on human rights; Ethics, American Foreign Policy, and the Third World (1993, St. Martin's Press); edited volumes Human Rights and Developing Countries (1997, JAI Press) and Human Rights: Theory and Measurement (1996, Macmillan); and influential articles such as 'The Cingranelli and Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project' (2010, Human Rights Quarterly), 'Principals, Agents and Human Rights' (2014, British Journal of Political Science), and 'The Human Rights Effects of World Bank Structural Adjustment, 1981-2000' (2006, International Studies Quarterly). He chaired the Political Science Department (1986-1987, 1993-1996), served as former president of the APSA Human Rights Section, and received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service (2008), Outstanding Teaching Award from the African Studies Association (2005), and from the Educational Opportunity Program (2001).