Katrina Z. S. Schwartz
Assistant Professor
223 Anderson Hall
(352) 273-2371
kzss@ufl.edu
Office hours
fall 2010 TBA
About Me
Katrina
Schwartz is Assistant Professor of Political Science
at the University of Florida. Her primary research interests are in
environmental politics and political ecology, as well as the
comparative politics of the former Soviet Union. She is currently
researching the politics of large-scale ecosystem restoration in the
Florida Everglades. Her book,
Nature and National Identity after Communism: Globalizing the Ethnoscape,
published by the University of Pittsburgh Press (2006), explores the
interweaving of discourses of nature and nation through case studies of
nature management and rural development policy conflicts in Latvia. She
has published articles in Environmental Politics,
Political Geography, Cultural Geographies, East European
Politics & Societies, and Comparative European Politics. Her research has been supported by
grants from the
American Council of Learned Societies, Fulbright-Hays, IREX, the
MacArthur Global Studies Consortium, and the University of Florida.
Professor Schwartz teaches graduate
seminars and undergraduate courses
in environmental politics and comparative politics.
Education
Ph.D. in Political Science (2001) University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
M.A. in Political Science (1994) University of Wisconsin-Madison.
B.A. in English & American Literatures (1987) Harvard University.
Academic experience
Assistant Professor. Department of Political Science,
University of Florida (2006-present).
Visiting Assistant Professor. Department of Political Science,
University of Florida (2003-2006).
Postdoctoral fellow. The
Harriman Institute, Columbia University (2002-2003).
Lecturer. Department of Political Science, Penn State
University (2001-2002).
