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Areas of expertise: Human Rights, Activism, Border Studies, Community-based Research, Violence and Violence Prevention, Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Sociology, International and Global Affairs


Biography, Education and Training

Faculty of the Department of Latin American and Latino/a Studies at UC Santa Cruz.   Affiliated faculty of Sociology.   Founder and director of UC Santa Cruz's Human Rights Investigations Lab for the Americas and co-founder of the University of California Digital Investigations Network.

Ronnie D Lipschutz

Ronnie D Lipschutz

Emeritus Professor of Politics, President & Co-director, Sustainable Systems Research Foundation

Politics Department

Areas of expertise: Energy, Environmental Policy, Foreign Policy, Globalization, International and Global Affairs, Politics, Science and Technology


Biography, Education and Training

Ronnie D. Lipschutz received his Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from UC-Berkeley in 1987 and an SM in Physics from MIT in 1978. He was a faculty member in the Politics Department from 1990-2020. He is now President and Co-director of the Sustainable Systems Research Foundation in Santa Cruz. From 2012-18, Lipschutz was Provost of Rachel Carson College at the University of California, Santa Cruz. During Fall term 2011, he was a Velux Visiting Professor in the Department of Business and Polit... more »

Mark Fathi Massoud

Mark Fathi Massoud

Professor and Chair of Politics, Director of Legal Studies

Politics Department

Areas of expertise: Law and Policy, International and Global Affairs


Biography, Education and Training

Mark Fathi Massoud is professor and chair of politics and director of legal studies at UC Santa Cruz. Visit people.ucsc.edu/mmassoud for bio, CV, and publications. 

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kcfung@ucsc.edu


Areas of expertise: China, Economics, International and Global Affairs, Asian Studies, International Finance, Business Management, Foreign Policy, Pacific Rim, Development Economics, Latin American and Latino Studies


Biography, Education and Training

K.C. Fung is a Full Professor of Economics (with tenure) at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  He is active in research in international trade, international finance, economic development, China, Japan and Asian economies. According to his latest official University of California merit review, based on research, teaching and service, his performance was evaluated to be "highly meritorious".  His latest book is on Sino-Latin American Economic Relationships. In the Fall of 2017... more »

Hiroshi Fukurai

Hiroshi Fukurai

Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies, President, Asian Law and Society Association (2018-19)

Sociology Department

Areas of expertise: Sociology, Legal Studies, International and Global Affairs, Race, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Law and Policy, Discrimination and Inequality, Statistics


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Riverside M.A., Sociology, University of California, Riverside B.A., Sociology, California State University Fullerton Metallurgical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Miyagi, Japan Hiroshi Fukurai is professor of Sociology and Legal Studies and the President of the Asian Law and Society Association (ALSA, 2018-2019).  He won the Chancellor's Achievement Award for Diversity in 2014 and the UCSC Service Recognition Awa... more »


Areas of expertise: International and Global Affairs, Environmental Policy, Urban studies, Climate Change, Comparative Politics


Biography, Education and Training

PhD University of Toronto, Political Science (2016)                                                                           ... more »

Sikina A Jinnah

Sikina A Jinnah

Professor of Environmental Studies and Associate Director, Center for Reimagining Leadership, Affiliated Graduate Faculty of Politics

Environmental Studies Department

Areas of expertise: Climate Change, International and Global Affairs, Environmental Justice, Endangered Species


Biography, Education and Training

Dr. Sikina Jinnah is a Professor of Environmental Studies and Associate Director of the Center for Reimagining Leadership at UC Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on global environmental governance in the areas of climate change, climate engineering, and the nexus between international trade and environmental politics. She is the author or editor of 6 books and over 50 articles and chapters. Her first book Post-treaty Politics (MIT Press) received the 2016 Harold and Margaret S... more »

Matthew B Sparke

Matthew B Sparke

Distinguished Professor of Politics, Co-Director of Global and Community Health

Politics Department, Global & Community Health

Press Contact

Allison Soergel

asoergel@ucsc.edu


Areas of expertise: Capitalism, Globalization, Border Studies, Critical Theory, Health and Wellness, Disease and Immunity, Death/Mortality Studies, Discrimination and Inequality, International and Global Affairs, Political Economy of Development


Biography, Education and Training

Matt Sparke is a Professor of Politics at UCSC. He was was born in Tonbridge, England in 1967. He was educated at a state comprehensive school in Tunbridge Wells, then at the University of Oxford (where David Harvey was his main mentor), and then at the University of British Columbia (where Derek Gregory was his PhD advisor). He joined the faculty in International Studies and Geography at the University of Washington in 1995.  After 22 years in Seattle, he move... more »

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