Timothy Nordstrom is Professor of Political Science in the College of Liberal Arts. His research focuses on the dynamics of international conflict and cooperation. His past work explored the relationship between domestic institutions and states’ propensities to use military force, while his current research examines how political leaders’ preferences shape long-term patterns of conflict and cooperation between states.
At the undergraduate level he teaches courses on the politics of nuclear proliferation and disarmament, the United Nations and international institutions, and the first-year seminar sequence in the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College. At the graduate level, he has taught courses on international conflict, alliances and security institutions, and currently teaches the graduate seminar on international cooperation and institutions.
He serves as a board member on the Correlates of War (CoW), a national data collection project, and also serves as co-lead on the CoW International Organizations data set. His research has been funded by both the University of Mississippi and the National Science Foundation. He served on the editorial board of the Journal of Politics from 2008-2015 and will be Associate Editor of International Interactions in Fall 2023. In 2004 he won the Cora Lee Graham Award for Outstanding Teaching of Freshmen in the College of Liberal Arts, and in 2019 he was selected by the Ole Miss chapter of Mortar Board to give the university’s “Last Lecture.”
