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Cyrus Ernesto (“Ernie”) Zirakzadeh received his baccalaureate degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, his masters from Stanford University, and his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught at the University of Connecticut for more than two decades, where he has served as Director of the University's Honors Programs for five of those years, and twice was elected Chair of the Executive Committee of the University Senate. He currently holds the positions of Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Zirakzadeh has been active in the Perestroika movement within political science, which seeks to encourage a substantively rich, methodologically pluralist discipline, and has served for three years on the Graduate Education and Professional Development Committee of the American Political Science Association. He was honored with the title “University of Connecticut Teaching Fellow” in 2005. His other academic and scholarly awards include a Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1980-84) and membership in Phi Beta Kappa and the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. For the past quarter century, Zirakzadeh has examined the origins, activities, and evolution of social movements in Western and Central Europe, and in Latin and North America. Over the past decade, he has published essays and presented conference papers on the representation of political problems in American literature and film. Zirakzadeh has authored and co-authored four books. In addition, he has penned numerous essays for edited books and professional journals, including Polity, Social Movement Studies, Journal of Theoretical Politics, The Review of Politics, and Comparative Studies in Society and History . He is currently co-editing (with Simon Stow ) his first anthology, a collection of essays by historians and social scientists on the political experiences and visions of novelist John Steinbeck. The first edition of Zirakzadeh's Social Movements in Politics: A Comparative Study received a 1998 Choice Outstanding Academic Book award. A preliminary version of Zirakzadeh's article, “Theorizing about Workplace Democracy: Robert Dahl and the Cooperatives of Mondragon,” was awarded the John C. Donovan Prize for best paper delivered at the 1988 New England Political Science Association Meeting.
Curriculum Vitae
Notable Writings on American Political Thought “Theorizing about Workplace Democracy: Robert Dahl and the Cooperatives of Mondargon,” in Journal of Theoretical Politics, 1990, 2(1): 109-26 “John Steinbeck on the Political Capacities of Everyday Folk: Moms, Reds, and Ma Joad’s Revolt,” in Polity, 2004, 36(4): 595-618 “Political Prophecy in Contemporary American Literature: The Left-Conservative Vision of Norman Mailer,” in The Review of Politics, 2007, 69(4): 625-49
Notable Writings on Comparative Social Movements and Social-Movement Theory “Economic Changes and Surges in Micro-Nationalist Voting in Scotland and the Basque Region of Spain,” in Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1989, 31(2): 318-39 A Rebellious People: Basques, Protests, and Politics (University of Nevada Press, 1991) Social Movements in Politics: A Comparative Study (Addison Wesley Longman, 1997) (with Dr. Marek Payerhin) “On Movement Frames and Negotiated Identities: Poland’s First Solidarity Congress,” in Social Movement Studies, 2006, 5(2): 91-115 “When Nationalists Are Not Separatists: Discarding and Recovering Academic Theories While Doing Fieldwork in the Basque Region of Spain” in Edward Schatz, ed., Political Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming)
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