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/
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: For Spring 2012, Wednesdays 9:30-10:55 or by appointment in 157 Merrill Faculty Annex
About me: Bio, curriculum vitae, UCSC profile, and new daughter Hazel
Institutional links: UC Santa Cruz, Politics Department, Politics Courses, 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, under contract, 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] [series] [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
Future schedule: (see below for most recent syllabi)
Fall 2012: International policy seminar (UCDC, in Washington D.C.)
Winter 2013: Poli 60
Spring 2013: Poli 141 and Poli 200b
Current schedule:
Poli 60 Comparative Politics / Introduction to the Politics of the Developing World, Spring 2012 [syllabus]
Poli 190t Governance and Conflict in East Asia, Spring 2012 [syllabus]
Previously taught:
Poli 141 Politics of China, Fall 2010 [syllabus]
Poli 200b Social Forces and Political Change, graduate seminar, Fall 2010 [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