Rate My Professor David Clark

David H. Clark is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he also serves as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in Harpur College of Arts and Sciences and Chair of the department, a position he has held in multiple terms since 2006, including the current term from 2016 to present. He joined the Binghamton faculty in fall 2000 as Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004, and to Professor in 2016. Prior roles include Director of Graduate Studies from 2004 to 2006, Visiting Scholar at Cornell University Department of Government from 2009 to 2010, and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa from 1999 to 2000. Clark earned his B.A. in Political Science from the University of the South in 1990, M.S. in Political Science in 1996, and Ph.D. in Political Science in 1999 from Florida State University, with specializations in international relations, foreign policy, and methodology.

Clark's research examines sources of political instability, including political protests, citizen mobilization against the state, and government reactions, as part of the Political Instability Task Force-supported Mass Mobilization Project covering global data from 1990 to 2014. He also investigates strategic sources of foreign policy choice, interstate bargaining, and experimental evaluations of bargaining models with conflict as the outside option. His scholarship has attracted substantial funding, such as National Science Foundation grant BCS #0904946 for $487,779 (2009–2012) on experimental analysis of conflict bargaining, NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research grant SES #0921149 for $10,524 (2009–2010), and multiple Political Instability Task Force awards totaling over $500,000 for projects like the Mass Mobilization Project ($183,000, 2014–2016) and Institutions and Elections Project. Key publications include "Substitution is in the Variance: Resources and Foreign Policy Choice" with Nordstrom and Reed (American Journal of Political Science, 2008), "Preying on the Misfortune of Others: When Do States Exploit Their Opponents’ Domestic Troubles?" with Fordham and Nordstrom (Journal of Politics, 2011), "An Experimental Analysis of Asymmetric Power in Conflict Bargaining" with Sieberg, Holt, Nordstrom, and Reed (Games, 2013), and co-edited special issue "Emerging Methodology in the Quantitative Study of Conflict" (Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2003). Clark has contributed datasets including the Institutions and Elections Project and received Dean’s Workshop Grants and Research Semester Award.