Jan Michael Kotowski

TitleLecturer
DivisionSocial Sciences Division
DepartmentPolitics Department
Phone831-459-1062
Email
Web Site C.V.
OfficeCrown 231
Office HoursTu/Th, 10:30am-11:30am (Spring 2013)
Campus Mail StopCrown Faculty Services
Mail1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA
95064
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Research Interests

Nationalism studies
German 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 Politics
Comparative Politics
International Relations
Security Politics
Immigration to Europe and the US