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About Susan Weissman

Positions

2003 - Present Professor, Saint Mary's College of California
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Present Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ Politics
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Present Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ School of Liberal Arts
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1992 - 2003 Associate Professor, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ Politics
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1999 - 1999 Research Fellow, Praxis International, Center for Russian Research
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1986 - 1992 Liberal Studies and Modern History Departments, Otis College of Art and Design
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1985 - 1986 Teacher, American History and World History, Concord International High School
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Fellow, Trotsky Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Moscow State University
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Disciplines

Research Interests

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Professional Service and Affiliations

1981 - Present Producer and host of weekly public radio shows, KPFK, Los Angeles
2017 Co-Producer, Historical and Political Consultant, The Most Dangerous Man in the World (film)
2007 Consultant, Trotsky y México (documentary film)
2002 Academic Advisor, The Fiddler and The Spy: Stalin’s Secret Policeman and the Myth of Our Fathers (documentary film)
1996 Consultant, Asaltar Los Cielos (documentary film)
1991 - 1992 Editorial Associate, Contention (magazine)
1989 - 1990 Consultant, Victor (documentary film)
1984 - 1985 Education and Fundraising Coordinator, Committee of Concern
1983 - 1984 Associate Editor, The Rebel (magazine)
1981 - 1984 Public Affairs Producer, KPFK, Pacifica Radio
1977 - 1979 Managing Editor, Critique (scholarly journal)
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Honors and Awards

  • Faculty Development Awards - 1992-2001
  • 1999 Movers and Shakers Award for Journalism - Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research

Courses

  • 19th & 20th Century Thought (Collegiate Seminar 123)
  • Comparative Revolutions (Politics 141)
  • American Foreign Policy (Politics 123)
  • Chilean Transitions (Jan term)
  • Contemporary East European Politics (Politics 148)
  • Greek Thought (Collegiate Seminar 120)
  • Introduction to American Politics (Politics 2)
  • Introduction to Comparative Politics
  • Introduction to Politics (Politics 1)
  • Introduction to the Political Process
  • Labor's Back! The Politics of Labor at the Threshold of the 21st Century
  • Life and Hope in America's Minority Neighborhoods (Travel Course, Jan-Feb, 2002)
  • Multicultural Thought (Seminar 144)
  • New World Disorder (Jan term 083)
  • Politics of Labor (Politics of 106)
  • Renaissance, 17th & 18th Century Thought (Collegiate Seminar 122)
  • Roman, Christian & Medieval Thought (Collegiate Seminar 121)
  • Russia in the 20th Century (Politics 147, History 110)
  • Russia's Rocky Transition (Travel Course, Jan-Feb 2001)
  • The End of Stalinism (Jan term)
  • Theory and Practice of Social Justice Organizing, Politics 109

Education

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1991 Ph.D. Soviet Studies, Institute of Soviet and East European Studies, University of Glasgow
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1976 M.Phil Soviet Studies, Institute of Soviet and East European Studies, University of Glasgow
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1972 A.B. English Literature, Stanford University
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Contact Information

Office: Garaventa 217
Phone: 4246
Fax: 631-4490
Mail: P.O. Box 4730

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