Benjamin L. Read
Associate Professor
Politics Department
Merrill Faculty Services
1156 High Street
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
office: 831-459-4469
fax: 831-459-3125
email: bread (at) ucsc (dot) edu
http://benread.net/
Benjamin L. Read
Associate Professor
Politics Department
Merrill Faculty Services
1156 High Street
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
office: 831-459-4469
fax: 831-459-3125
email: bread (at) ucsc (dot) edu
http://benread.net/
General
Office hours: Tue & Thu 2:30p to 4:00p, 157 Merrill Faculty Annex, and by appointment.
About me: Bio, curriculum vitae, UCSC profile, and new daughter Hazel
Institutional links: UC Santa Cruz, Politics Department, UCSC Quick Links
Maps: Area, city, campus, college, aeronautical
Former students: Please drop me a line. Apart from email, use this form to check in and keep in touch.
Research
Full overview of my work on local organizations in China and Taiwan, and on field research methods; articles and book chapters listed by topic with links to full text [link]
Books:
Field Research in Political Science, with Diana Kapiszewski and Lauren M. MacLean, forthcoming, Cambridge UP
[abstract] [project site]
Roots of the State: Neighborhood Organization and Social Networks in Beijing and Taipei, Stanford UP 2012
[abstract] [publisher's page] [Google books] [Amazon page]
Local Organizations and Urban Governance in East and Southeast Asia, edited with Robert Pekkanen, Routledge 2009
[abstract] [publisher's page] [Amazon page]
Commentary
Interviews, essays, book reviews, and other projects [link]
Recent reads [link]
Courses
eCommons course sites | how to read in college | what to call me? | absence form
guidelines for presentations | guidelines for reading responses | citation requirements | checklist for all written work
Current schedule:
Poli 141 Politics of China, Spring 2013 [syllabus]
Poli 200b Social Forces and Political Change, graduate seminar, Spring 2013 [syllabus]
Previously taught:
Poli 60 Comparative Politics of the Developing World, Winter 2013 [syllabus]
Poli 190t Governance and Conflict in East Asia, Spring 2012 [syllabus]
Poli 143 Foreign Relations of China, Fall 2009 [syllabus]
Miscellaneous
Java tools for learning and maintaining Chinese: self-quizzes on traditional vs. simplified characters | Chinese surnames
VBA macros for Word: general | annotation
Notes on software that I use
Aviation weather report: