Leon
Zamosc,
Associate Professor
Ph.D. -
University of Manchester-England, 1983
Areas of Specialization: Latin American Societies, Political Economy, Development, Social Movements, Research Methods, Ethnicity, Rural Sociology
Email Address: lzamosc@ucsd.edu
Phone number: 858-534-0487
Office location: 487
Social Science Building
Biography:
Leon Zamosc received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Haifa (Israel), and his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester (England). Before joining UCSD, he was an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Kansas. He has written in Spanish and English on Latin American social history and peasant political participation. His book, The Agrarian Question and the Peasant Movement in Colombia (Cambridge University Press), won the 1986 Hubert Herring Award for best book of the year on Latin America. He teaches social change, development issues, social movement and Latin American societies.
Classes to be taught in 2007/08:
Winter 2008
LATI 50 - Introduction to Latin America
SOCG 258 - Institutional Change in the Contemporary World
Spring 2008
SOCD 185 - Globalization and Social Development
SOCD 182 - Ethnicity and Indigenous People in Latin America
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Books:
*Zamosc , Leon , Manuel Chiriboga and Estela Martinez (eds.): Estructuras Agrarias
y Movimientos Campesinos en America Latina, 1950-1990;
Madrid: Centro De Publicaciones, Ministerio De Agricultura, Serie Estudios,
1997. Translated title: Agrarian Structures and Peasant Movements
in Latin
America ,1950-1990.
*Leal, Francisco and Leon Zamosc (eds.): Al Filo del Caos: Crisis
Politica en la Colombia de los Anos Ochenta, Bogota
: Tercer Mundo Editores, 1990. Translated title: On the Edge of Chaos:
The Colombian Political Crisis of the 1980s.
*Zamosc , Leon : The Agrarian Question and the Peasant Movement in Colombia,
Cambridge University Press, 1986.
*Zamosc , Leon : Los Usuarios Campesinos y las Luchas por la Tierra
en la Decada del Setenta, Bogota : Editorial CINEP, 1983.
Translated title: The Peasant Movement and the Land Struggles of
the 1970s in Colombia.
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Zamosc , Leon : El Fique y los Empaques en Colombia ,
Bogota , Ed.: Fundacion Mariano Ospina Perez, 1981. Translated title: Sisal
and the Sacking Industry in Colombia.
*Zamosc , Leon and J.G. Giviria: Curiti, Pueblo de Tejedores ,
Bogota , Ed.: Universidad Javeriana, 1980. Translated title: Curiti, a Town
of Weavers.
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