STEPHEN P. AMBERG
Professor Emeritus of Political Science.
Department of Political Science and Geography
The University of Texas at San Antonio
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, Texas 78249-0648
stephen.amberg@utsa.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987.
Committee: Walter Dean Burnham, Charles F. Sabel, Nelson Lichtenstein
B. A. Tufts University, 1977.
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
University of Texas at San Antonio, 1987 – 2024.
Fulbright Distinguished Professor of American Studies. Copenhagen Business School, 2009 – 2010.
Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science. The New School for Social Research, 2005 – 2006.
Instructor in the Government Department. Simmons College, 1985 – 1986.
PROFESSIONAL HONORS and PUBLIC SERVICE
Member of the Executive Council of the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association. 2021 – 2023. Chair of the Committee for the Walter Dean Burnham Award for Best Dissertation in Politics and History. 2022.
Member of the Board of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, 2012 – 2023.
Chair of the Division on American Political Development of the Southern Political Science Association. 2021 – 2022.
Member of Mayor’s Task Force on Affordable Housing Working Group on Removing the Barriers to the Supply of Affordable Housing. San Antonio, Texas. 2018.
Member of the American Political Science Association Gladys M. Kammerer Award Committee for the Best Political Science Publication in U.S. National Policy. 2017.
Chair of the Division on the Comparative Politics of Advanced Industrial Societies of the American Political Science Association. 2012 – 2013.
Writing Fellow at the Klitgaarden Refugium. Klitgaarden Fonden. Denmark. 2010.
Fulbright Distinguished Professor of American Studies. Center for the Study of the Americas. Copenhagen Business School. 2009 – 2010.
Member of the Executive Council of the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association. 2004 – 2006.
Member of the Executive Committee of the Texas Faculty Association – TSTA – NEA. 1996 – 2000.
Member of the Editorial Board for the Lowell Industrial History Papers for the U.S. Department of the Interior. 1995 – 1996.
TEACHING
Copenhagen Business School. Department of International Culture and Communications Studies, 2009 – 2010.
- Politics and Society in North America and South America (graduate course).
- Experiments in Participative Governance (graduate course).
- Markets in the Western Hemisphere (graduate course, team-taught).
The New School for Social Research, Department of Political Science and the Eugene Lang College, 2005 – 06.
- The State and Political Change in the United States (graduate course)
- New Directions of the Advanced Political Economies (graduate course)
- Experiments in Democratic Renewal
- American Politics
The University of Texas at San Antonio.
- The Creativity of Political Action: Race and American Political Development (graduate course)
- American Political Development (graduate course)
- Masters’ Thesis Seminar (graduate course)
- The Work of Democracy (graduate course)
- American Government and Politics (graduate course)
- Comparative Political Economy of the Advanced Countries (graduate course)
- Black Lives Matter (team taught interdisciplinary course)
- Democratic Crisis and Renewal (senior seminar)
- Labor in American Politics (senior seminar)
- American Political Development (senior seminar)
- Reform Crises in American Politics (senior seminar)
- The U.S. Welfare State in Comparative Perspective
- Political Parties and Interest Groups
- International Political Economy
- Comparative Political Economy
- Political Movements
- Comparative Politics
- Legislative Process
- Public Policy Formulation
- Introduction to American Politics (Honors)
- Introduction to American Politics
Simmons College. 1985 – 86. Instructor.
- American Government.
- The Legislative Process.
Harvard University. 1983 – 87. Teaching Assistant.
TA for James Q. Wilson, Sidney Verba, and Morris Fiorina for American Government; Stephen Holmes for Democratic Theory; Samuel Huntington for Transitions to Democracy; and David Landes for the Origins of the Inequality of Nations.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1980. Teaching Assistant for Thomas Ferguson for American Politics.