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Megan Thomas Home  Directory Megan Thomas
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Megan Thomas
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Assistant Professor of Politics |
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mcthomas (at) ucsc (dot) edu |
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(831) 459-2026 Office
(831) 459-3125 Fax |
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163 Merrill Faculty Annex |
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Fall 09: Wednesdays, 2-4pm
**A sign-up sheet for office hours is posted on my office door; you're welcome to drop in without an appointment, but I'll see those with appointments first, and others as time permits.** |
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Professor Thomas studies the emergence of nationalist thought in colonial societies. She is particularly interested in the relationship between Orientalism and nationalism. Her own research focuses on the emergence of nationalist thought in the late nineteenth-century Spanish colonial Philippines, and she argues that those Filipino intellectuals used Orientalist genres, methods, and societies for anti-colonial scholarly and political ends. This project has lead her to more general comparative interests in nineteenth-century political and social-scientific thought, political identity in the Spanish colonial world, and modernity and cosmopolitanism in late colonial societies. She teaches courses in 19th and 20th century political theory, Orientalism, and nationalism. |
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"K is for De-Kolonization: Anti-Colonial Nationalism and Orthographic Reform" in Comparative Studies in Society and History, v49 n4 (October, 2007)
"Isabelo de los Reyes and the Philippine Contemporaries of La Solidaridad" in Philippine Studies, v54 n6 (December, 2006) |
| Courses Taught | |
POLI 190D-01 - Early Anarchist & Socialist Thought
POLI-105C-01 - Modern Political Thought
POLI-109-01 - Orientalism
POLI-265-01 - Nationalism
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B.A., English Literature, Oberlin College, 1992
M.Sc., Government, London School of Economics, 1994
Ph.D., Government, Cornell University, 2002 |
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