Professor Ruth O'Brien

Professor Ruth O’Brien Office 5200.01 Hours: Tues. 5:30-6:30 PM robrien@gc.cuny.edu Course Description: This course focuses on individual forms of socially constructed identity (e.g., gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and humanness or bodies), intersectional forms of identity (e.g., gender and bodies), and collective forms of identity (e.g., citizen, worker or labor, and anarchist collectives or horizontal […]

American Political Development revised Jan 19 2017 (and subject to change) Inauguration Protest, 2017 Course Description: This course will help prepare American politics students for the first examination. This 8000-level political-science seminar prepares students for the major or minor in both the National Institutions track and the Electoral Process track in American Politics.  This course is […]

American Political Development (APD) Bibliography*   Michael Paul Rogin, Fathers & Children, Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian (any edition), chp. introduction. Stephen Skowronek & Karen Orren, The Search for American Political Development (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004), chps 1-5. Adam D. Sheingate, “Political Entrepreneurship, Institutional Change, and American Political Development,” […]

Writing Politics Specialization (PSC 79003 — 3 credits, 30864 CRN) (revised Feb 12, 2016)* Professor O’Brien robrien@gc.cuny.edu; SEMINAR DESCRIPTION: This is an online course, though during the latter part of the semester, the instructor will meet with students on a tutorial basis to help them design ways to amplify their voice as a public intellectual […]