Timothy Pachirat
I joined The New School in the fall of 2007 with a joint appointment in the Department of Politics at The New School for Social Research and the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School for General Studies. My formal training is in political science, but I try to be omnivorous in my reading and teaching. One of the exciting things about being a part of the GPIA is the opportunity to have colleagues in anthropology, sociology, economics, and comparative literature.
My research and teaching interests include comparative politics, the politics of
Recently, I've taught various iterations of the core GPIA MA Global Flows seminar and an intensive summer course on Power that included MA and PhD students from NSSR and GPIA. I have also taught or am teaching graduate level courses on Resistance, on Political Ethnography, as well as the core NSSR Department of Politics MA Seminar. In January 2009, I led a three week Eugene Lang College Study Abroad Course in Siem Reap, Cambodia which combined intensive service learning at an orphanage and primary school with an academically rigorous examination of Cambodia's politics and history from the French Protectorate through the present. Before coming to the New School, I taught an interdisciplinary undegraduate seminar at
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