https://dylanwgroves.com/ Recent content in About on Dylan W. Groves Hugo en-us Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:35:16 -0400 https://dylanwgroves.com/blog/home-at-last-mseleku/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:35:16 -0400 https://dylanwgroves.com/blog/home-at-last-mseleku/ https://dylanwgroves.com/blog/was-jane-jacobs-the-first-nimby/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:08:38 -0400 https://dylanwgroves.com/blog/was-jane-jacobs-the-first-nimby/ <p>Podcast: Jerusalem Demsas and Matt Yglesias&rsquo; critical take on &ldquo;Life and Death of Great American Cities&rdquo;.</p> https://dylanwgroves.com/blog/the-drunken-silenus/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:46:10 -0400 https://dylanwgroves.com/blog/the-drunken-silenus/ <p>The first of Morgan Meis&rsquo; Three Paintings Trilogy. Based on <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/the-painters-shadow-world-morgan-meis/">this recommendation</a>.</p> https://dylanwgroves.com/blog/from-rolling-mill-to-drone-factory-the-sight-of-work/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:33:27 -0400 https://dylanwgroves.com/blog/from-rolling-mill-to-drone-factory-the-sight-of-work/ <p>T.J. Clark on representations of labor under capitalism.</p> https://dylanwgroves.com/contact/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://dylanwgroves.com/contact/ <p><a href="mailto:dylanwgroves@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:dylanwgroves@gmail.com">dylanwgroves@gmail.com</a></a></p> <p><a href="https://calendar.app.google/hr7tu6WPYMDvBd3m9" target="_blank">schedule a meeting</a></p> <p><a href="https://dylanwgroves.com/blog/">running list of links</a></p> https://dylanwgroves.com/cv/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://dylanwgroves.com/cv/ <div class="cv-download"> <a href="https://dylanwgroves.com/groves_cv.pdf" target="_blank">download cv (pdf) &darr;</a> </div> <iframe class="cv-embed" src="https://dylanwgroves.com/groves_cv.pdf" width="100%" height="800"></iframe> https://dylanwgroves.com/research/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://dylanwgroves.com/research/ <h2 id="working-papers">Working Papers</h2> <div class="paper"> <div class="title">The persuasive power of Africa's High Courts: evidence from Tanzania</div> <div class="authors">Salma Emmanuel, Dylan W. Groves, Beatrice Montano, Constantine Manda, Donald P. Green, Bardia Rahmani</div> <div class="venue">Revise and Resubmit, World Development</div> <details><summary>abstract</summary> <p>Do constitutional court rulings shape social attitudes and perceived social norms? Rigorous evidence from outside of industrialized democracies is scarce. This paper evaluates the influence of a recent ruling by Tanzania's supreme court which held that laws permitting marriage for girls under the age of 18 are unconstitutional. We randomly assigned 1,950 respondents in rural Tanzania to hear a radio report about the ruling or to a control condition. Respondents who heard the report were 8 percentage points more likely to reject all forms of early marriage and 5.4 percentage points more likely to say they would report early marriage to authorities. However, hearing the report did not influence perceptions of community norms or willingness to speak out against early marriage, and the persuasive effect of the report was attenuated when presented alongside a countervailing signal from Tanzania's Attorney General.</p> https://dylanwgroves.com/teaching/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://dylanwgroves.com/teaching/ <h2 id="lafayette-college">Lafayette College</h2> <div class="course"> <div class="course-name">African Politics</div> <div class="semesters">Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026</div> </div> <div class="course"> <div class="course-name">Introduction to Comparative Politics</div> <div class="semesters">Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024</div> </div> <div class="course"> <div class="course-name">Media and Politics in a Comparative Perspective</div> <div class="semesters">Spring 2026</div> </div> <div class="course"> <div class="course-name">Political Analysis</div> <div class="semesters">Spring 2025</div> </div>