El Reparto de Tierras, 1924
by Diego Rivera
John P.
Tuman (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A. University of
Chicago; B.A., University of California, Berkeley).
Chair
and Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Chair,
Latin American Studies Program Committee
Director,
Institute
for Latin American Studies
Professor
Tuman teaches courses on comparative politics, international relations, and
political economy, with a focus on Latin America and other developing
areas. His recent research has
examined the political economy of health and social policy in Latin America,
the effects of economic reform on workers and unions, and the determinants of
foreign direct investment and official development assistance. Professor Tuman is the author of Reshaping
the North American Automobile Industry: Restructuring, Corporatism and Union
Democracy in Mexico (Routledge/Continuum, 2003), The North American Auto
Industry Beyond NAFTA: Productivity and Industrial Relations (Center for
Strategic & International Studies, 2000), and Latin American Migrants in
the Las Vegas Valley: Civic Engagement and Political Participation (Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, 2009).
He is also co-editor of Voices and Visions: 2008 Proceedings of the
Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies (Pacific Coast
Council in Latin American Studies, 2010) and Transforming the Latin American
Automobile Industry: Unions, Workers, and the Politics of Restructuring (M.E. Sharpe,
1998), and junior co-author of Comparative Politics: Nations and Theories in
a Changing World (Prentice Hall, 2000). His articles have been published in Political
Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Foreign Policy Analysis, Latin
American Research Review, Studies in Comparative International Development,
International Interactions, Public Performance and Management Review,
International Relations of the Asia Pacific, State and Local Government Review,
Industrial Relations Journal, Journal of East Asian Studies, and Global
Health Governance. He is the past
president of the Pacific Coast Council of Latin American Studies and the
International Studies Association-West.
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