Jan Michael Kotowski
| Title | Lecturer |
| Division | Social Sciences Division |
| Department | Politics Department |
| Phone | 831-459-1062 |
| Web Site | C.V. |
| Office | Crown 231 |
| Office Hours | Tu/Th, 10:30am-11:30am (Spring 2013) |
| Campus Mail Stop | Crown Faculty Services |
| 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064 |

Research Interests
Nationalism studiesGerman and American national identity
Immigration
Discourse analysis
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D. (Politics), University of California, Santa Cruz (2011)M.A. (Political Science), University of Göttingen (2004)
Selected Publications
“U.S. Nationalism: The Academic Discourse,” The Americanist: Warsaw Journal for the Study of the United States, Vol. 25 (2010): 61-78.Kotowski, Jan Michael, “Narratives of Immigration and National Identity: Findings from a Discourse Analysis of German and US Social Studies Textbooks,” Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (Special Issue on Nationalism and Education) (forthcoming).
Teaching Interests
Introduction to PoliticsComparative Politics
International Relations
Security Politics
Immigration to Europe and the US