R. Jeffrey Lustig     

Professor Emeritus of Government
E-mail:  n.a.
Phone number:  278-7090

Institution where doctorate degree was earned:
University of California, Berkeley

Brief Biography:
Jeff Lustig served as Director, Center for California Studies at CSUS, 1989-94, was Founding Chair of the California Studies Association, 1990-98, a Trustee of the California Historical Society, 1989-92; Secretary of the statewide  California Faculty Association (the CSU faculty union), 1999-2001, and President of the CSUS chapter of CFA, 1997-2003. He's served on the National Executive Committee of the AAUP (Association of American University Professors) Collective Bargaining Congress, 2001-2005. He is author of Corporate Liberalism: The Origins of Modern American Political Theory, 1890-1920 (U.C. Press), and numerous articles on American politics and political thought, California politics, class and race, and the corporatization of American higher education. He has published in Politics and Society, Thought and Action, and The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies among other places. He’s also taught at U.C. Berkeley, Humboldt State and Deep Springs College.

Areas of research and interests:
American Political Thought, Classical Political Theory, California Politics, Political Economy, Labor Studies

Undergraduate courses:
American Political Thought, Modern Political Thought, The Politics of the Underrepresented, Labor Studies, Socialism and Marxism, Politics & the Novel.

Graduate courses:
Special Topics in Political Theory (“Dissenters in American Political Thought,” “Tyranny and Liberty”); State and Local Politics (Calif.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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