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Professor Melanie Springer

Melanie J. Springer is very excited to join the Politics department at UC Santa Cruz next year (beginning July 2013). She is originally from Southern California, she received her Ph.D. in political science at Columbia University in 2006, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Washington University in Saint Louis. Continue»

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Research in the Politics Department at UCSC is widely known for its distinctive emphasis on four critical areas of political inquiry, each of which cuts across the traditional subfield divisions of political science...[More]



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