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I joined the Department
of Government and Politics at Humboldt
State University in the fall of 2004. I am also
affiliated with the Master of Arts in Social Science: Environment
and Community Program, the Interdisciplinary Program
in International
Studies, and the Interdisciplinary Program in
Postcolonial African Studies.
My research and teaching interests consider the
social, political and economic context of technological
development and innovation. Empirically, I focus on issues
surrounding the adoption of agricultural biotechnology in Southern
Africa. This includes both the technology itself as well as
the international, regional and local context of adoption.
My empirical research informs more theoretical questions regarding
privatization and enclosure, the nature of value, theories of
property, property rights and ownership, social conceptions of
risk, the the role of the state, the nature of regulation and
public policy, and the role of social movements and local
resistance.
Teaching:
current and past courses taught as well as my statement of
teaching philosophy.
See this
note on letters
of recommendation.
Research:
statement of research interests and links to current and past
research projects.
Curriculum
Vitae
Last update 3 January 2008 by Noah
Zerbe
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