Timothy Weaver

Timothy Weaver

Associate Professor, Director of Semester in Washington, Interim Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Political Science
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy
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Contact

Milne Hall 201
Education

MA, PhD, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
BA (Hons.), Philosophy and Politics, University Of Durham (U.K)

Tim Weaver
About

Specialization: Urban Policy and Politics

Timothy Weaver is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science. He previously held the post of assistant professor of urban politics at the University of Louisville. Dr. Weaver holds a BA (Hons.) in Philosophy and Politics from the University Of Durham (U.K.) and an MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Blazing the Neoliberal Trail: Urban Political Development in the United States and the United Kingdom (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) and coeditor (with Richardson Dilworth) of How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). His research interests include urban policy and politics, urban political economy, American political development, the role of ideas, political institutions, British politics, race and class. At Rockefeller College, he teaches classes in American Political Development, Comparative Urban Politics, and Race, Class, and Culture in American Politics, State and Local Politics, and Urban Politics and Policy. He serves on the editorial board of the Urban Affairs Review.