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Todd Eisenstadt

Department Chair, Government
SPA: Government

  • Professor Eisenstadt is chair of the Government Department for the 2009-2010 academic year. He studies democratization, identity and social movements, public opinion, political parties, and election finance, mainly in Latin America. He is the principal researcher of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Higher Education and Development Program grant: “Uniting Law and Society in Oaxaca, Mexico: A Research and Teaching Program.” He is also the author of Courting Democracy in Mexico and has authored and/or edited four other books. He is currently completing a manuscript Surveying the Silence: Liberal and Communal Identities in Southern Mexico’s Indigenous Rights Movement. Between 2000 and 2005, Eisenstadt directed USAID’s “Mexico Elections Project,” including academic research and the training of hundreds of observers of local elections and other government processes in Mexico. He is a former print journalist and Capitol Hill staffer.
  • Degrees

    Ph.D. University of California, San Diego
    M.A. The Johns Hopkins University
    B.A. Brown University
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  • SPA - Government
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Teaching

  • Fall 2009

    • GOVT-696 Selected Topics:Non-Recurring: Comp Group Politics & Conflcts
    • Description
  • Spring 2010

AU Expert

Area of Expertise: U.S.-Latin American relations, politics in Latin America, immigration, democratization, Mexico, ethnic identity, survey research, indigenous rights movement, ethnic politics

Additional Information: Todd A. Eisenstadt is principal researcher of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Higher Education and Development Program grant: Uniting Law and Society in Oaxaca, Mexico: A Research and Teaching Program. He is finishing a related manuscript, “Indians by Choice: Traditional Societies and the State in Southern Mexico,” and is the author of Courting Democracy in Mexico (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and articles in journals including Latin American Politics and Society, Democratization, Party Politics, and the International Political Science Review. A recipient of Fulbright and National Security Education Program “Boren” fellowships, he has been a visiting scholar at the El Colegio de México in Mexico City, Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Japan Institute for International Affairs in Tokyo, and the University of California San Diego’s Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. Between 2000 and 2005, Eisenstadt directed the USAID’s Mexico Elections Project, which conducted academic research and trained hundreds of observers for local elections and other government processes in Mexico.

Foreign Language Fluency: Spanish 

Media Relations
To request an interview please call AU Media Relations at 202-885-5950 or submit an interview request form.


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