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Eric Selbin
Professor of Political Science
Expertise
Comparative Politics (Comparative Revolutions; Contentious Politics; Latin American and Caribbean Politics; Ideologies); International Politics (Peace and Conflict; IR Theory); Political Sociology.
Eric Selbin is Professor of Political Science and Holder of the Lucy King Brown Chair. His research interests are in the areas of resistance, rebellion, and revolution, theories of revolution, and socio-political change. Selbin is the author of Revolution, Resistance, and Rebellion: The Power of Story (2010), which has been translated into Arabic, German, Spanish, and Turkish, Modern Latin American Revolutions (1999/1993) and a variety of articles and book chapters primarily on matters revolutionary. He has co-authored with Meghana Nayak, Decentering International Relations (2010) [http://www.southwestern.edu/live/news/4934-rethinking-global-politics]. Selbin is co-editor of the New Millennium Books in International Studies series, Associate Editor of International Studies Perspectives, and was the founding editor of Southwestern University’s Brown Working Papers in the Arts and Sciences. In 2007 he was selected as one of Southwestern University’s All-time “Fav Five” Faculty by the SU Alumni Association and received the Exemplary Teaching Award from the Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church for 2001-2002.
Selbin received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1991, his MA from Louisiana State University in 1984, and his BA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1980.
Honors & Awards
- Holder of the Lucy King Brown Chair (2014- )
- University Scholar (2006-2015)
- Mr. Homecoming 2012 Association of Southwestern University Alumni
- Association of Southwestern University Alumni Inaugural Faculty Fav Five (2007)
- Cullen Faculty Development Program (2003-6)
- Brown Distinguished Research Professor (1999-2003)
- Southwestern University Exemplary Teacher, General Board of Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church (2001-2002)
- NEH Summer Research Seminar: “New Perspectives in the Comparative Study of Revolutions,” ( 1996)
- Mundy Faculty Fellowships (1995-96, 1998-99)
- Brown Faculty Fellow (1994-95)
- Cullen Faculty Development Program (1993-9).
- Cullen Research Grant (1994)
- Sam Taylor Research Fellowship (1994)
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