Benjamin L. Read

Assistant 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: blread (at) ucsc (dot) edu
http://benread.net/

General

Office hours: Starting 9/23, Tuesday & Thursday 10a to 11:30a in 157 Merrill Faculty Annex, and by appointment

About me: Bio, curriculum vitae, UCSC profile

Institutional links: UC Santa Cruz, Politics Department

Maps: Area, city, campus, college, aviation

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 D. Kapiszewski and L.M.M. MacLean, under advance contract, Cambridge UP

Roots of the State: Neighborhood Organization and Social Networks in Beijing and Taipei, under contract, Stanford UP

Local Organizations and Urban Governance in East and Southeast Asia, edited with R. Pekkanen, Routledge 2009 [link]

Commentary

Book reviews, interviews and essays [link]

Recent reads [link]

Courses

Current:

eCommons course sites | How to read in college | What to call me? | absence form

Guidelines for presentations | guidelines for reading responses | checklist for all written work

Poli 60 Comparative Politics / Introduction to the Politics of the Developing World, Spring 2010 [syllabus]

Poli 190t Governance and Conflict in East Asia, Spring 2010 [syllabus]

Previously Taught:

Poli 141 Politics of China, Winter 2010 [syllabus]

Poli 143 Foreign Relations of China, Fall 2009 [syllabus]

Poli 200b Social Forces and Political Change, graduate seminar, Fall 2008 [syllabus]

030:179 Human Rights and Asian Values, Fall 2007 (U. of Iowa) [syllabus]

030:347 Associations, Networks, and Trust in the Realm of Politics, graduate seminar, Fall 2006 (U. of Iowa) [syllabus]

030:173 Voluntary Organizations and Politics in Comparative Perspective, Fall 2005 (Georgetown U.) [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