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= Justin Remes = Justin Remes is an associate professor in film studies at Iowa State University. He earned his B.A. in English from Oakland University and an M.A. in English and a Ph.D. in Film Studies from Wayne State University. Some of his areas of interest include experimental film, the Avant-garde, and aesthetics. Remes' research additionally encompasses found footage films and cinematic "re-mixes", which involves films that are created by manipulating, editing, and recontextualizing preexisting films.

He is the author of Absence in Cinema: The Art of Showing Nothing (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020) and Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015). Justin has also published articles on directors such as Luis Bunuel, Abbas Kiarostami, and Derek Jarman.

= Published Works =


 * Absence in Cinema: The Art of Showing Nothing (2020)
 * Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis (2015)

= Sven Steinmo = Sven H. Steinmo is a professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received his BA from the University of California Santa Cruz and his MA, MPH, and PhD from the University of California Berkeley. His primary teaching and research interests are in the areas of Institutional Theory, comparative public policy, and comparative historical analysis. Steinmo has also researched political and economic institutions of various developed democracies through the lens of Evolutionary Theory. He is perhaps best known for his work in institutional theory, having been one of the founders of the subfield of Historical Institutionalism. His book with Kathleen Thelen, Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism and Comparative Analysis (1992), is widely considered to be one of the defining statements in this area of research. His most recent project, Leap of Faith (2018), explores the relationship between citizens and their government regarding general trust and tax compliance. Steinmo recently held a position as “Research Professor” at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, before returning to a professorship at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2017.

= Published Works =


 * Leap of Faith (2018)
 * The Evolution of Modern States: Sweden, Japan, and the United States (2010)
 * Growing Apart? America and Europe in the 21st Century (2007)
 * Restructuring the Welfare State: Political Institutions and Policy Change (2002, co-edited with Bo Rothstein)
 * Taxation and Democracy: Swedish, British and American Approaches to Financing the Modern State (1996)
 * Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis (1992)

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