You can find a full PDF version of my CV here (April 2026)
Employment
Concordia University; Montreal, Canada (2020–)
Associate professor, Department of Political Science, 2025 –
Assistant professor, 2020–2025
Faculty member, Loyola Sustainability Research Centre
University of Oxford; Oxford, United Kingdom (2019/2020)
Postdoctoral researcher in international climate policy
Education
University of Oxford; Oxford, United Kingdom (2013–2019)
DPhil, International Relations, 2019
MPhil, International Relations, 2015
University of British Columbia; Vancouver, Canada (2008–2013)
BA (Honours), Political Science and International Relations, 2013
Full-year undergraduate exchange at Sciences Po Paris (2010/11)
Refereed journal publications
Jean-Frédéric Morin, James Hollway, Yixian Sun, Alice Vadrot, Jennifer Allan, Thomas Bernauer, Michele M. Betsill, Clara Brandi, Cornelia Fast, Rakhyun E. Kim, Noémie Laurens, Emma Lecavalier, Melissa McCracken, Ronald B. Mitchell, Kayla Morton, Amandine Orsini, Marielle Papin, Sam Rowan, and Oscar Widerberg. (2026). "Dataset development in earth system governance: Learnings, stakes, and pathways for impact." Earth System Governance, p. 1--7.
Rowan, Sam S. (2025). "From gridlock to ratchet: Conditional cooperation on climate change." International Organization, vol. 79, no. 2, p. 257–280.
Rowan, Sam S. and Janzwood, Amy (2025). "Capping oil emissions and the mass politics of Canadian sectoral climate policy." Environmental Politics, p. 1–22.
Rowan, Sam S. (2024). "Effective climate clubs require ambition, leverage and insulation: Theorizing issue linkage in climate change and trade." The Review of International Organizations, p. 1–26.
Barrie, Christopher, Fleming, Thomas and Rowan, Sam S. (2024). "Does protest influence political speech? Evidence from UK climate protests, 2017--2019". British Journal of Political Science, vol. 54, no. 2, p. 456–473
Rowan, Sam S. (2023). "Extreme weather and climate policy." Environmental Politics, vol. 32, no. 4, p. 684–707.
Roger, Charles B. and Rowan, Sam S. (2023). "The new terrain of global governance: Mapping membership in informal international organizations." Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 67, no. 6, p. 1248–1269.
Roger, Charles B. and Rowan, Sam S. (2022). "Analyzing international organizations: How the concepts we use affect the answers we get." Review of International Organizations, vol. 13, no. 3, p. 597–625.
Rowan, Sam S. (2021) "Does institutional proliferation undermine cooperation? Theory and evidence from climate change." International Studies Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 2, p. 461–475.
Rowan, Sam S. (2019) "Pitfalls in comparing Paris pledges." Climatic Change, vol. 155, no. 4, p. 455–467.
Teaching
POLI 312: Climate Politics
POLI 486: International Climate Politics
POLI 644: Research Methods
POLI 683/687/812: Global Environmental Politics