Gary Winslett
I joined the Middlebury faculty in 2018. I was a postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute in Florence from 2016-2017. I completed my doctoral dissertation on regulation and trade in the automotive, meat, and pharmaceuticals industries and received my Ph.D. from Boston College in 2016. My current research examines the relationship between large technology companies and the U.S. government. I teach courses in political science and the IP&E program on topics such as international political economy, international law, global trade, money and finance, international politics, and climate change. I enjoy skiing and hiking.
My research focuses on the politics around trade, global business, and the technology sector with a particular emphasis on using case studies methodology, My first book, Competitiveness and Death: Trade and Politics in Cars, Beef, and Drugs, was published with the University of Michigan Press in 2021. I have written scholarly articles and chapters for edited volumes on WTO plurilateral negotiations such as the Information Technology Agreement, how digitalization is facilitating the burgeoning international trade in services, intellectual property and the trading relationship between the United States and China, a comparative analysis of pathways toward regulatory cooperation that could satisfy business and activists, the role of public opinion in shaping trade politics, technology and the changing geography of trade, and the political development of regulation as the centerpiece of international trade negotiations.