Joe Wright teaches in the Department of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University and currently serves as the co-Director of the Global and International Studies (GLIS) program. He previously held the Jeffrey L. and Sharon D. Hyde Early Career Professorship. Joe completed his Ph.D. at UCLA . Prior to arriving at Penn State, he was a post-doctoral research associate at Princeton University and a visiting faculty fellow at the University of Notre Dame. In 2016 Joe was on leave in Cape Town as a visiting scholar at Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA).