Todd Eisenstadt

Department Chair, Government
Department of Government

• Professor Eisenstadt is chair of the Government Department, 2011-2012. Co-editor of Latin America's Multicultural Movements and the Struggle Between Communitarianism, Autonomy, and Human Rights (Oxford University Press forthcoming), he authored Politics, Identity, and Mexico's Indigenous Rights Movements (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Courting Democracy in Mexico: Party Strategies and Electoral Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and authored or co-authored well over a dozen journal articles and book chapters. From 2007-2009 he was 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.” 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 who has consulted for USAID, the Organization of American States, and several non-profit and for profit companies.

• Degrees

  Ph.D. University of California, San Diego
  M.A. The Johns Hopkins University
  B.A. Brown University

• Favorite Spot on Campus:

  Davenport Lounge
  
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