2011-12 General Catalog

25 Merrill College
(831) 459-2855
politics@ucsc.edu
http://politics.ucsc.edu

Program Description | Course Descriptions

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Michael K. Brown, Emeritus

J. Peter Euben, Emeritus

Kent Eaton, chair
Comparative politics, international relations, political economy, public policy, territorial conflict, federalism, decentralization, party and electoral systems, Latin America, the Philippines

Isebill V. Gruhn, Emerita

Bruce D. Larkin, Emeritus

Ronnie D. Lipschutz
International relations; global political economy; globalization; foreign policy; resource/environmental politics; global political networks; global civil society and social movements; popular culture and politics; technology and society; risk society, state transformation and global governmentality

John A. Marcum, Emeritus

John H. Schaar, Emeritus

Michael E. Urban
Russian politics, postcommunist transitions, U.S.-Russian relations, political language and ideology, revolution

Daniel J. Wirls  
American politics, including national political institutions (Congress) and the President; public policy (military and foreign policy) and political history

Associate Professor

Eva C. Bertram
American politics, including the welfare state and social policy; political economy and the politics of labor markets; civil society and non-governmental organizations; public policy, including drug-control policy

Dean Mathiowetz
Political theory, philosophy of language, classical political economy

Eleonora Pasotti
Comparative urban politics, democratization, public policy, sub-national political economy and party politics

Vanita Seth
Early modern and modern political theory, feminist theory, cultural history, race politics, postcolonial theory

David J. Thomas, Emeritus

Megan Thomas
Political theory, especially of the 19th century; nationalist thought; Orientalism; comparative colonialism; Southeast Asia

George E. Von der Muhll, Emeritus

Assistant Professor

Mark Fathi Massoud
Law and society; politics of human rights; international law and development, with a special interest in Sudan; field research, with an emphasis on qualitative and ethnographic methods

Eleonora Pasotti
Comparative urban politics, democratization, public policy, sub-national political economy and party politics

Benjamin Read
Comparative politics with special interest in the politics of China ; theories of associations and social networks; communist and post-communist states; political participation and collective action

Roger Schoenman
Post-socialism, political economy, comparative capitalism, politics of pipelines, politics of memory, political networks, politics and money, Balkan and East European politics, Central Asian transitions

Professor

Edmund Burke III (History)
Barbara Epstein (History of Consciousness)
Jonathan A. Fox (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Walter L. Goldfrank, Emeritus (Sociology)
David E. Goodman, Emeritus (Environmental Studies)
Paul M. Lubeck (Sociology)
Robert L. Meister (Professor, Professor of Political and Social Thought and History of Consciousness)
Hector Perla (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Daniel M. Press (Environmental Studies)
Craig Reinarman (Sociology)
Alan Richards, Emeritus (Environmental Studies)
Andrew Szasz (Sociology)
David Wellman, Emeritus (Community Studies)
Donald A. Wittman (Economics)

Revised: 8/13/12