Politics

27 Merrill College
(831) 459-2451
politics@ucsc.edu
http://politics.ucsc.edu

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Michael K. Brown, Chair
Inequality, race and African American politics, political economy, political development of welfare states, theories and methods of historical social science

J. Peter Euben, Emeritus

Isebill V. Gruhn, Emerita

Bruce D. Larkin, Emeritus

Ronnie D. Lipschutz
International relations; international political economy; foreign policy; resource/environmental politics; global political networks; global civil society; film, fiction, and politics; technology and society; states of terror

Robert L. Meister
Political and moral philosophy, law and social theory, Marxian theory, institutional analysis, antidiscrimination law

John H. Schaar, Emeritus

David J. Thomas, Emeritus

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

George E. Von der Muhll, Emeritus

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

Associate Professor

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

Paul Frymer
American politics and institutional development; law, race, and civil rights; parties, elections, and representation; organizations, collective action, and social movements; labor and employment; political history

Assistant 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

Annette Clear
Comparative democratization, transnationalism, global politics, global organization, Southeast Asia

Dean Mathiowetz
Political theory, philosophy of language, political economy

Eleonora Pasotti
European politics, comparative politics, democratization, public policy, political economy, methodology

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

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

Megan Thomas
Political theory, culture and identity, comparative colonialism, nationalist thought, 19th-century thought, Orientalism, Southeast Asia

Affiliated Graduate Faculty

Professor

Edmund Burke III (History)

Barbara Epstein (History of Consciousness)

Jonathan A. Fox (Latin American and Latino Studies)

Walter L. Goldfrank (Sociology)

David Goodman (Environmental Studies)

David C. Hoy (Philosophy)

Paul M. Lubeck (Sociology)

Daniel M. Press (Environmental Studies)

Craig Reinarman (Sociology)

Alan R. Richards (Environmental Studies)

David T. Wellman (Community Studies)

Donald A. Wittman (Economics)

Associate Professor

Andrew Szasz (Sociology)

Lecturer

Suzanne Jonas (Latin American and Latino Studies)