{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-04T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:00:14","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/codwyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Interest\/Research<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"size-full alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/codwyer\/files\/profile_picture_square.png\" alt=\"Conor O\u2019Dwyer\" class=\"wp-image-192\" style=\"width:290px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/codwyer\/files\/profile_picture_square.png 290w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/codwyer\/files\/profile_picture_square-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I teach classes in comparative and European politics, with an emphasis on postcommunist Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>My first research project centered on state-building and state reform in the new democracies of postcommunist Europe, linking patterns of political patronage to the character of party competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>My current research explores how and when European\u00a0 integration influences domestic politics in Eastern Europe.\u00a0 In particular, I am examining the interaction between EU norms and postcommunist legacies in the field of gay rights.\u00a0 How has EU membership shaped gay-rights activism and backlashes against it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I earned my doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley in 2003.\u00a0 Since then, I have held appointments at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and at the University of Florida.\u00a0 I have also spent time as a a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard and at the Center for Baltic and East European Studies at S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University in Stockholm. My abridged CV is available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/codwyer\/content-removed\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-195\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:codwyer@ufl.edu\">codwyer@ufl.edu<\/a><br>\nPhone:\t(352) 273-2355<br>\nFax:\t(352) 392-8127<br>\nOffice:\tAnderson 332<br>\nMailing Address:<br>\nPO Box 117325<br>\nGainesville, FL 32611-7325<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/codwyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/codwyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/codwyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/codwyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/codwyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/codwyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/codwyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/codwyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}