Paul Schuler

Paul Schuler is an associate professor of political science at the University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy (SGPP). With more than 20 years’ experience Southeast Asia, he is an expert on Southeast Asian politics (particularly Vietnam), democratic backsliding, and the inner workings of authoritarian regimes. Since 2015, he has served as a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme in Vietnam on an annual governance survey and in 2024 was elected to the Executive Council of the Southeast Asia Research Group (SEAREG). He was also selected as a Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford University Faculty Fellow (2018), a visiting associate professor at Waseda University in Tokyo (2022-2023), and a Senior Faculty Fellow at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Social Science (2024).  He has published more than 20 journal articles and a book with Stanford University Press. 

 

Since becoming associate director of SGPP 2024, Paul Schuler has increased engagement between SGPP’s 30+ faculty experts and the Tucson community. A centerpiece of these efforts includes creating the SGPP Arizona Policy Lab Roundtable Series, where SGPP faculty and outside speakers address topics in their areas of expertise such as public policy, elections, democracy, and foreign affairs. He is excited to deepen coordination between SGPP and the TCFR community to bolster the foreign affairs expertise and knowledge in the Tucson and Southern Arizona community. 

 

Paul Schuler has a Ph.D in political science from the University of California – San Diego (2014), a masters in International Affairs from the University of California – San Diego School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (now the School of Global Policy and Strategy), and a B.A. in journalism and political science from the University of Maryland.