The Economies and Identities Lab Director Professor Roselyn Hsueh actively engages in advising, mentoring, and graduate and undergraduate teaching. The Women of Color in Comparative Politics Network, which Professor Hsueh cofounded and co-organizes with a diverse team of professional and academic political scientists, is supported by the Centennial Center of the American Political Science Association.
Doctoral Seminars in Political Science
POLS 8213. Political Economy of Development
This graduate course exposes students to the major debates in the political economy of development on the origins and transformations of three key institutional fields: the state, market institutions, and the international economy. We read classic works in political economy on the philosophical underpinnings of the role of the state in development; and more recent works on the relationship between the state and market creation, evolution, and reform in the context of global integration. We also survey selected works on the political and economic development of the newly industrialized countries of East and Southeast Asia and Latin America; developing countries in South Asia and Africa; and post-Communism in China and Russia.
POLS 8214. Political Economy of Identity in the Global Era
This graduate course explores the conceptual and theoretical tools that have been brought to bear to investigate the role of identity and relationship between economics and identity in the context of globalization, particularly post-cold war developments. It exposes students to some of the major debates on conceptualizing and operationalizing the multidimensionality of identity; the context-specific issues that make identity an important factor to explore as both a cause and an effect in a globalizing economy; and existing research on what shapes identity and the impact of identity. We ask the following questions: Why study identity? How to study identity? What causes identity? How does identity matter? We encounter these questions via existing literature across subfields of political science, sociology, and history; different methodological lens; and substantive knowledge of empirical reality.
