Phillip Ayoub (PhD, Cornell) is Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow in political and social sciences at the European University Institute and Assistant Professor of political science at Drexel University. His research bridges insights from international relations and comparative politics, engaging literature on transnational politics, gender and politics, norm diffusion, and the study of social movements. Phillip’s publications have appeared or are forthcoming in Mobilization, the European Political Science Review, the Journal of Human Rights, Perspectives on Europe, and Trans-Atlantic Perspectives.