Curriculum Vitae (pdf) - Department of Political Science

AMY BRIDGESDepartment of Political Science13378 Heston PlaceUniversity of California, San Diego San Diego, CA 92130La Jolla, California 92093-0521 (619) 481-2580(619) 534-7706 abridges@ucsd.eduEMPLOYMENT1996- Professor of Political Science, Adjunct Professor of History, University ofCalifornia, San Diego1989-2000 Director of Urban Studies and Planning, University of California, San Diego1988-96 Associate Professor of Political Science. Adjunct Associate Professor ofHistory, University of California, San Diego1987-88 Visiting Professor of Political Science, Stanford University1984-87 Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University1979-83 Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University1974 Internal Evaluator, Youth Community Studies Program, Staten IslandCommunity College, City University of New York1972-74 Adjunct Lecturer, City University of New York1972 Staff Member to the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status ofWomen, City University of New YorkEDUCATIONPh.D. Political Science, University of Chicago, 1980M.Sc. Politics (Political Sociology), London School of Economics and PoliticalScience, 1971B.A. Urban Affairs, University of Chicago, 1970HONORS AND AWARDS2000 to write The Progressive Era in the Western States, American Council ofLearned Societies, Fellowship, and National Endowment for the Humanities,Fellowship for Univeristy Professsors for 2001-2.1999 for Morning Glories, Municipal Reform in the Southwest, Best BookPublished in 1997 in North American Urban History, Urban HistoryAssociation1998 for Morning Glories, Municipal Reform in the Southwest, Best BookPublished in 1997 on Urban Politics, American Political Science Association,Urban Political Research Section1987 National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Study1978 American Association of University Women, Dissertation Fellowship

Amy Bridges Page 2PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES2001 Program Chair, Western Political Science Association2000 Section Chair, Politics and History, Western Political ScienceAssociation Meetings1999 Great Britain panelist, Fulbright Fellowships1998 Political Science panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities1998 with David Vogel, Program Chair, Politics and History Section, AnnualMeetings of the American Political Science Association1996- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Policy History1993-5 Member, Executive Committee, Western Political Science Association1991-3 Member, Editorial Board, Western Political Quarterly1991-3 Member, Editorial Board, Urban Affairs Quarterly1991 Member, Executive Committee, Urban Politics Section, American PoliticalScience Association1990 Section Chair, History and Political Science, Annual Meeting of the AmericanPolitical Science Association1990 Section Chair, Urban and Local Government, Annual Meeting of the WesternPolitical Science Association1989 Founded, with David Brady, American Political Science Association OrganizedSection, Politics and History1988 Political Science Panelist, NEH Fellowships1988 Section Chair, History and Political Science, Annual Meeting of the AmericanPolitical Science Association1985 Member, Ralph Bunche Award Committee, American Political ScienceAssociation1980-81 Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law1973-80 Member, Editorial Board, Politics and Society1972-75 Member, Editorial Board, Review of Radical Political EconomicsBOOKS, RESEARCH ARTICLESand Katherine Underwood, "Life After Districts" Minorities at the Millenium , Glenwood,1999and Richard Kronick, "Writing the Rules to Win the Game, The Middle Class Regimes ofMunicipal Reformers" Urban Affairs Review, May 1999"Textbook Municipal Reform" Urban Affairs Review, September 1997Morning Glories, Municipal Reform in the Southwest, Princeton University Press, 1997"Creating Cultures of Reform," Studies in American Political Development, Spring 1994"Winning the West to Municipal Reform," Urban Affairs Quarterly, June 1992"Politics and Growth in Sunbelt Cities," in Ray Mohl, editor, Searching for the Sunbelt,University of Tennessee Press, 1990

Amy Bridges Page 3"Boss Tweed and V.O. Key in Texas," in Heywood Sanders and Frank Miller, editors,Urban Texas: Politics, Race, and Development, Texas A&M Press, 1990"Rethinking the Origins of Machine Politics," in John Mollenkopf, et. al., Power, Culture,and Place, Russell Sage, 1988"Becoming American, The Working Classes of the United States Before the Civil War," inAristide Zolberg and Ira Katznelson, editors, Working Class Formation: Patterns inNineteenth Century United States and Europe, Princeton University Press, 1986A City in the Republic: Antebellum New York and the Origins of Machine Politics,Cambridge University Press, 1984. Paperback, Cornell University Press, 1987"Another Look at Plutocracy and Politics in Antebellum New York City," Political ScienceQuarterly, Vol. 97, No. 1 (Spring 1982)"Paradigms, Politics, and Policies: Notes on Social Science and the Cities" (co-authoredwith Kenneth Finegold), in Clement Cottingham, editor, Race, Poverty, and the UrbanUnderclass, D.C. Heath, 1982"Comparative Policy Analysis and Health Planning Processes Internationally" (co-authoredwith T.R. Marmor), Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Fall1980), pp. 419-30"Urban Locality and Externally Induced Voluntary Associations" (co-authored with R.Taub, S. Lindholm, P. Otti, and G. Surgeon), American Journal of Sociology, May1977"Comparative Politics and Health Policies: Notes on Benefits, Costs, and Limits" (coauthoredwith T.R. Marmor and W. Hoffman), in D. Ashford, editor, ComparingPublic Policies, New Concepts and Methods, Sage Yearbooks in Politics and PublicPolicy, Vol. 4, 1977."The Other Side of the Paycheck: Monopoly Capital and the Structure of Consumption"(co-authored with B. Weinbaum), Monthly Review, July-August 1976."Pedagogy by the Oppressed" (co-authored with H. Hartman), Review of Radical PoliticalEconomics, Vol. 6, No. 4, 1975."Nicos Poulantzas and the Marxist Theory of the State," Politics and Society, Vol 4, No. 2,1974COMMENTARY, BOOK REVIEWSPath Dependence, Sequence, History, Theory” Studies in American PoliticalDevelopment Vol.14 #1, 2000Review of Evan Cornog, The Birth of Empire: DeWitt Clinton and the AmericanExperience, 1769-1828. Journal of American History 72 #2 (September 2000)On a Decade of Politics and History, Clio Vol.11 #2 (Spring/Summer 2000)

Amy Bridges Page 4Review of James J. Connolly, The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban PoliticalCulture in Boston 1900-1925. Journal of Interdisciplinary History XXXI:1 (Summer2000), pp. 135-7.Review of Melvin G. Holli, The American Mayor: the Best and Worst Big-City Leaders.American Historical Review, Vol. 105 #3, (June 2000) p. 948Review of Kevin Mattson, Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for ParticipatoryDemocracy during the Progressive Era. Journal of Politics 61 #1 (February 1999) pp.232-3Review of Daniel Feller, The Jacksonian Promise: America 1815-1840. Jounal of SouthernHistory, Vol. 63, #2 (May 1997)Review of Kevin Boyle, The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, PoliticalScience Quarterly, Spring, 1997"Is it Past time to End the Mean Season?" review of William Julius Wilson, When WorkDisappears: the World of the New Urban Poor, San Diego Union Tribune,November 15, 1996"Rethinking the Commercial Republic," comments on Charles Sellers, The MarketRevolution in Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Winter 1992)Review of Richard B. Stott, Workers in the Metropolis in Journal of Economic History,September 1992Review of Jerome Mushkat, Fernando Wood: A Political Biography in The PennsylvaniaMagazine of History and Biography, Spring 1992Review of Robert B. Fairbanks and Kathleen Underwood, editors, Essays on Sunbelt Citiesand Recent Urban America in Journal of San Diego History, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Winter1991)Review of Richard L. McCormick, The Party Period and Public Policy: American Politicsfrom the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era in Political Science Quarterly, Vol.102, No. 4, 1987-8Review of Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic, New York City and the Rise of the AmericanWorking Class 1788-1850 in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 101, No. 1, 1986Review of Melvin G. Holli and Paul M. Green, editors, The Making of the Mayor, Chicago,1984 in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 100, No. 1 (Spring 1985).Review of Wayne J. Urban, Why Teachers Organized in Political Science Quarterly, Vol.99, No. 2 (Summer 1984)Review of Thomas M. Guterbock, Machine Politics in Transition in Political ScienceQuarterly, Vol. 96, No. 2 (Summer 1981)Review of Jack Newfield and Paul DuBrul, The Abuse of Power: The PermanentGovernment and the Fall of New York in Working Papers for a New Society, Vol. VI,No. 4 (July/August 1978)

Amy Bridges Page 5"An Annotated Bibliography on Race and Public Policy in the United States" (co-authoredwith Ira Katznelson), in D. Ashford, T.J. Pempel and P. Katzenstein, A ComparativeBibliography in Public Policy, Sage Publications, 1977Review of Thomas T. Archdeacon, New York City, 1664-1710, Conquest and Change inAmerican Journal of Sociology, May 1977Review of R.N. Hunt, The Political Ideas of Marx and Engels, Vol. I, Marxism andTotalitarian Democracy, 1818-1850 in Science and Society, Vol. XL, No. 2 (Summer1976)