Education Ripsman earned a
bachelor's degree and a master's degree in
Political science from
University of Toronto in 1989 and 1990 and received his PhD in Political Science at the
University of Pennsylvania in 1997.
Academic career From 1998 to 1999, he was a
Postdoctoral Fellow at Mershon Center for International Security,
Ohio State University. From 1999 to 2001, Ripsman worked at Department of Political Science,
Dalhousie University as a visiting assistant professor. From 2000 to 2016, Ripsman worked at Department of Political Science,
Concordia University as an assistant professor (2000–4),
associate professor (2004–10) and professor (2010–16). During this 16-year period, he was a
research fellow of International Security Program at
Harvard Kennedy School of Government (2011) and a
visiting scholar at
University of Melbourne (2006–7) and
Northern Illinois University (2012–13). == Theoretical contribution to neoclassical realism ==