Dr. Richard Harris holds a joint appointment as Professor of Global Studies and World Languages and Cultures. He has a Ph.D. in Political Science and a Masters of Public Administration from the University of California, Los Angeles, and he has taught, carried out research, and directed programs at various universities in the United States and overseas, including the University of California, Harvard University, California State University, Golden Gate University, the University of the Americas, the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City, the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, the Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero in Argentina, the University of Zambia and the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.

Professor Harris is the editor of the international Journal of Developing Societies and has been one of the coordinating editors of the well-known journal Latin American Perspectives since 1977. He has published books, monographs and journal articles on globalization, Latin American politics, African politics, democracy, revolutionary change, socialism, comparative public administration and organizational development. Included among his more recent publications are: Globalization and Health (Boston, Köln and Leiden: Brill, 2004); Critical Perspectives on Globalization and Neoliberalism in the Developing Countries (Boston, Köln and Leiden: Brill, 2000); Death of a Revolutionary: Che Guevara’s Last Mission (New York: W.W. Norton, 2000); Capital, Power and Inequality in Latin America (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1995); and Marxism, Socialism and Democracy in Latin America (Boulder: Westview, 1992).

Dr. Harris has been continuously involved in outcomes-based and multicultural curriculum development since CSUMB opened its doors in 1995 and he was involved in selecting the founding faculty of this campus. During the early years of the campus’ development, he helped develop the curriculum of the new undergraduate degree programs in International Management, Global Studies and Integrated Studies. From 1997 through 2002, he founded and directed the Integrated Studies Program. He is currently a member of the Academic Senate (which he helped establish and led during its first two years) and the Senate Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. Since 2003, he has been involved in developing Latin American Studies within the new School of World Languages and Cultures. He teaches courses on the History and Politics of Latin America, the History and Politics of Mexico, US Foreign Policy in the Pacific Rim and the Third World and Global Politics and Genealogy of Globalization.

Recent Publications:

Capital, Power and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
February 2008
ISBN: 0-7425-5523-2 / 978-0-7425-5523-5
Cover: Cloth and Paperback
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 368

Death of a Revolutionary: Che Guevara's Last Mission, Updated with a New Epilogue
Inprint, October 2007
ISBN: 039333094X
Cover: Paperback
W W Norton & Co
Pages: 288

Globalization and Development in Latin America
In print, 2005
ISBN: 1-897160-02-X
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 355

Globalization and Health
In print, 2004
ISBN 90 04 14145 6
Paperback (xii, 276 pp.)

Globalization and Globalism in Latin America: Contending Perspectives
In print, 2002
Latin America Perspectives
November 1 2002, Volume 29, No. 6

Globalization and Post-Apartheid South Africa
In print, 2005
ISBN: 1-897160-01-1
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 184

Media, identity and the Public Sphere in Post-Apartheid South Africa
In print, 2003
ISBN 90 04 12633 3
Paperback (vi, 194 pp.)

Journal of Developing Societies website:
http://jds.sagepub.com/