Lisa Martin
Lisa L. Martin is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her work examines the role of international institutions in world politics, with a particular interest in how their design influences state behavior in areas such as foreign aid, economic sanctions, cooperation in treaties, and trade in services.
Her notable publications include Coercive Cooperation: Explaining Multilateral Economic Sanctions (1992) and Democratic Commitments: Legislatures and International Cooperation (2000). She also edited The Oxford Handbook of the Political Economy of International Trade (2015) and served as Editor-in-Chief of International Organization (2001–2006). She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship served as president of the American Political Science Association for the 2022–2023 term.
Martin earned a B.S. in Biology from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 1989. She began her academic career at UC San Diego, then moved to Harvard before joining the faculty at UW–Madison in 2008.