Professor, Political Science
            
          Office
                  
        LRC 324
            
          Education
                
        BA--Political Science UC Santa Barbara
            
                  
        MA--Latin American Studies, UCLA
            
                  
        PhD--Political Science UC Santa Barbara
            
          About
                
        Hi.  I am married with two boys and live in Ojai.  I grew up in Germany and did research in Mexico as a graduate student, spending two years in Oaxaca and Chiapas.  At Ventura College, I teach political science courses.
            
          Publications
                
        The Coffee Farmers Revolt in Southern Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s.  Mellon Press, 2001
            
                  
        CH 6; "Politico-Economic Restructuring and Mexico's Small Coffee Farmers,"  in Poverty or Development?: Global Restructuring and Regional Transformation in the U.S. South and the Mexican South.  Richard Tardanico and Mark Rosenberg, ed. Routledge Press, 2000
            
                  
        Duende in Dark Places,  Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2014