Stephen P. Amberg

STEPHEN P. AMBERG

Associate Professor of Political Science

Department of Political Science and Geography The University of Texas at San Antonio One UTSA Circle San Antonio, Texas 78249-0648 210 458-5618 210 458-4629 fax [email protected]

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987.

B. A. Tufts University, 1977.

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

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.

Associate Professor of Political Science. U.T.S.A., 1993 - .

Assistant Professor of Political Science. U.T.S.A., 1987 - 1993.

Instructor in the Government Department. Simmons College, 1985 - 1986.

PROFESSIONAL HONORS

Appointed to the Gladys M. Kammerer Award Committee for the Best Political Science Publication in U.S. National Policy, American Political Science Association. 2017.

Chair of the Division on the Comparative Politics of Advanced Industrial Societies, American Political Science Association. 2012 - 2013. 2

Fulbright Specialist, 2011 – 2016. Center for International Exchange of Scholars.

Fellowship at the Klitgaarden Refugium in Skagen, Denmark. Klitgaarden Fonden. May 2010.

Fulbright Distinguished Professor in American Studies at the Center for the Study of the Americas. Copenhagen Business School. 2009 - 2010.

Member of the Council of the Politics and History Section, American Political Science Association. 2004 - 2006.

Member of the Editorial Board, Lowell Industrial History Conference Papers, U.S. Department of the Interior. 1995 - 1996.

PUBLIC SERVICE current

Member of Board of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas.

Vice-president of the Board of the Mahncke Park Neighborhood Association. San Antonio, Texas.

PUBLICATIONS peer reviewed

“A Democracy That Works”. Book in progress.

“From Having It Both Ways to Double Standards: The Political Origins and Development of U.S. International Labor Rights Policy”. Article in progress.

Review of John Ehrenreich, Third Wave Capitalism: How Money, Power, and the Pursuit of Self-Interest Have Imperiled the American Dream, Journal of American History (forthcoming).

“Constructing Industrial Order in the Center of the American Economy: How Electoral Competition and Social Collaboration Evolved in 20th Century New York”, Studies in American Political Development 31/1 (April 2017): 1 – 22.

“Comment on the Election 2016”, CLIO (Winter 2016 – Spring 2017): 6, 22 – 23.

“Social Learning in Active Labor Market Policy in Denmark: The Possibility of Policy Experimentalism and Political Development“, Socio-Economic Review 13/4 (2015): 703 – 721. 3

Review of Andreas Bergh, Sweden and the Future of the Capitalist Welfare State, International Journal of Social Welfare 24/3 (July 2015): 305 – 6.

“Reconfiguring Industry Structure: Obama and the Rescue of the Auto Companies” in Gerald Berk, Victoria Hattam, and Dennis Galvan, editors, Political Creativity: Reconfiguring Institutional Order and Change (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013): 100 – 119, 314 – 21.

“Labor”, in Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History, volume 7: The Clash of Conservatism and Liberalism, 1976 to Present, edited by Richard M. Valelly (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2010): 247 – 51.

Review of Andrew Battista, “The Revival of Labor Liberalism”, Journal of American History (March 2009): 1251 – 2.

“Liberal Market Economy or Composite Regime? Institutional Legacies and Labor Market Policy in the United States”, Polity 40/2 (Spring 2008): 164 – 196.

“Varieties of Capitalist Development: Worker-Manager Relations in the Texas Apparel Industry, 1935-1975”, Social Science History 30/2 (Summer 2006): 231 – 262.

Review of Seymour Martin Lipset and Noah M. Meltz, “The Paradox of American Unionism: Why Americans Like Unions More than Canadians Do But Join Much Less”, Perspectives on Politics 3/2 (June 2005): 378 – 9.

Review of John Barnard, “American Vanguard: The United Auto Workers During the Reuther Years, 1935-1970”, Journal of American History (March 2005): 1535 – 6.

“Governing Labor in Modernizing Texas”, Social Science History 28/1 (Spring 2004): 145 – 188.

“Declension and Construction Themes in the Study of Labor Politics in the United States”, Studies in American Political Development 17, 1 (Spring 2003): 34 – 60.

Review of Marie Gottschalk, “The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 54/4 (July 2001): 890 – 91.

Review of Taylor E. Dark, "The Unions and the Democrats: An Enduring Alliance", American Political Science Review 94/1 (March 2000): 187 – 88. 4

"The CIO Political Strategy in Historical Perspective: Creating a High-Road Economy in the Postwar Era", in Kevin Boyle, editor, Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894- 1994 (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998): 159 – 194.

Review of Ruth Milkman, "Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century" and of Donald Critchlow, "Studebaker: The Life and Death of an American Corporation", International Labor and Working-Class History 54 (Fall 1998): 236 – 39.

Review of William C. Green and Ernest J. Yanarella, editors, "North American Auto Unions in Crisis: Lean Production as Contested Terrain" and of Kevin Boyle, "The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968", American Political Science Review 91/1 (March 1997): 181 – 3.

Review of Glenn Perusek and Kent Worcester, editors, "Trade Union Politics: American Unions and Economic Change, 1960s-1990s", Industrial and Labor Relations Review 50/2 (January 1997): 344 – 6.

"The Contrasting Consequences of Institutions and Politics: Labor and Industrial Relations in the United States and Germany", Political Power and Social Theory 10 (1996): 195 – 227.

Review of Melvyn Dubofsky, "The State and Labor in Modern America", Political Science Quarterly (Fall 1995): 473 – 4.

Review of Kathryn Marie Dudley, "The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America", Industrial and Labor Relations Review 49/1 (October 1995): 186 – 7.

The Union Inspiration in American Politics: The Autoworkers and the Making of a Liberal Industrial Order (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994).

"Institutional Frameworks and Production Systems", International Contributions to Labour Studies 3 (1993): 51 – 66.

Review of Michael Schudson, "Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget and Reconstruct the Past", Political Science Quarterly (Fall 1993): 562 – 3.

Review of Steven Fraser, "Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor", Review of Politics 55/2 (Spring 1993): 378 – 81.

Review of Eileen Boris and Nelson Lichtenstein, editors, "Major Problems in the History of American Workers", Labor History 33/4 (Fall 1992): 568 – 9. 5

"Democratic Producerism: Enlisting American Politics for Workplace Flexibility", Economy and Society 20/1 (February 1991): 57 – 78.

Review of Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, editors, "The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980", Business History Review (Spring 1991): 190 – 94.

"Triumph of Industrial Orthodoxy: The Collapse of Studebaker-Packard" in Nelson Lichtenstein and Stephen Meyer, editors, On the Line: Essays in the History of Auto Work (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989): 190 – 218.

Review of Daniel Nelson, "American Rubber Workers and Organized Labor, 1900-1941", Business History Review (Spring 1989): 206 – 209.

"Springfield: Cut First, Restore Later" in Lawrence Susskind, editor, Proposition 2 1/2: Its Impact on Massachusetts (Cambridge, Mass.: Oelgeschlager, Gunn and Hain, 1983): 239 – 251.

WRITING not refereed

“Trump’s Challenge in Historical Perspective”, San Antonio Express-News (Op-Ed, December 10, 2016). http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/Trump-s- challenge-in-historical-perspective-10786354.php?cmpid=email-desktop

“War on Poverty Worked; Ryan’s Plan All Talk”, San Antonio Express-News (Op-Ed, June 26, 2016): F1. http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/Ryan-is- wrong-Programs-did-cut-into-poverty-8323909.php

“The 2016 Election Needs a Class-oriented Agenda”. The American Politics and Policy Blog. The U.S. Centre, London School of Economics and Politics (June 7, 2016). http://bit.ly/1rbFrC5

“How to Overcome the Patriotic Gore of Racism”, The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture (October 2015). http://www.brooklynrail.org/2015/10/field-notes/how-to-overcome-the-patriotic-gore-of- racism

“Protect First Amendment, Criticize Provocateurs”, San Antonio Express-News (Op-Ed, May 18, 2015). http://m.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/Protect-1st- Amendment-criticize-provocateurs-6267078.php 6

“This is What Oligarchy Looks Like: Notes from Texas”, The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture (June 2014). http://www.brooklynrail.org/2014/06/field-notes/notes-from-texas

“Madness, But There’s a Method To It”, San Antonio Express-News (Op-Ed, October 6, 2013). http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/Madness-but-there- s-a-method-to-it-4866527.php

“The Depths of ‘A Sorry Vein of Racial Prejudice’”, Huffington Post (Commentary co- authored with Sahar Aziz, March 25, 2013). Reprinted many times. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sahar-aziz/the-depths-of-a-sorry-vei_b_2909190.html

My weblog at stephenamberg.net:

o “Anatomy of Congressional Misrepresentation” (October 7, 2013). A version also was published in the San Antonio Express-News on October 6, 2013. o “A Sorry Vein of Racial Prejudice”, co-authored with Sahar Aziz (March 25, 2013). Also published on Huffingtonpost.com. o “Right to Work at The Times” (January 22, 2013). o “Was Market Fundamentalism Bailed Out”? (January 16, 2012). o “December Wrapping” (December 21, 2011). o “A Familiar Partisan Dynamic: Left Cleans Up and Gets Blamed for the Mess” (November 10, 2011). o “Union Successes in the Midwest but Will the Dems Take Credit?” (November 10, 2011). o “What’s a Moderate Journalist Worth?” (October 21, 2011). o “Repudiation, Not Responsibility” (October 2, 2011). o “Now and Then” (September 29, 2011). o “Lessons Ten Years After” (September 24, 2011). o “Summer Blues” (September 17, 2011). o “Symbiotic Relationship” (July 11, 2011). o “Friends Like These” (June 21, 2011). o “London Calling” (June 15, 2011). o “See No Evil” (June 14, 2011). o “Quote-unquote Job Creators” (June 5, 2011). o “Empower the Voters” (June 4, 2011). o “Views Mostly Unpublished by the San Antonio Press” (June 2, 2011).

“Activation in Two Countries without Strong Employment Security: Denmark’s Labor Market Governance from an American Perspective”, a study for a comparative research project. March 3, 2010. 7

“Proposal for an Alamo Strategy Center at the Metropolitan Research and Policy Institute”, a project for a labor market research center supported by the Metropolitan Research and Policy Institute at UTSA. 1998.

Work, Recreation, and Culture: Essays in American Labor History, edited by Martin Blatt and Martha Norkunas (NY: Garland, 1996). Member of the Editorial Board, Lowell Industrial History Conference Papers, U.S. Department of the Interior.

"The Political Construction of Economic Space: Restructuring in Four American Regions", a project supported by a UTSA Faculty Research Award. 1996.

"Skills, Sectors, Schools, States and Unions: Reconfiguring Apprenticeship for American Manufacturing". 1993.

"Labor and Trade After Fast Track", La Voz (San Antonio TX: Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, 1992).

"Competition and Political Capacity: The Case of Industrial Tooling", research supported by a UTSA Faculty Research Award. 1989.

"The Origins of Affirmative Action in Massachusetts: The Politics of Labor Market Segmentation in the Construction Industry". The Boston Jobs Coalition. 1981.

"The Urban Question Today", a review essay of Stephen Schecter, The Politics of Urban Liberation, Black Rose Magazine 2 (1979): 37-44.

"Neighborhood Government". A comparative study of community development corporations in New York, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. for the Center for Community Economic Development of Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1976.

CONFERENCE PAPERS and SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

“The Electoral Politics of Evolving Neoliberal Capitalism in the U.S.”, Southwestern Social Science Association annual meeting. Austin, Texas. Forthcoming April 15, 2017.

“Beyond the Liberal Democrats’ Social Investment Politics”, paper delivered at the Latino Strategy Conference of the Southwest Voter Education and Research Project. San Antonio, Texas. December 16, 2016.

"A Debate About the Policies We Need to Govern the U.S. or a Debate About Scandal and Trump's Personality?”, paper delivered at the Presidential Debate Watch Panel 8 sponsored by the UTSA Department of Political Science and Geography. October 19, 2016.

“Explanations for Labor Rights Compliance Problems: the United States Case of Labor Rights Policy Development”, paper prepared for the 27th annual conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. London School of Economics and Politics. July 2015.

“From Having It Both Ways to Double Standards: The Political Origins and Development of U.S. International Labor Rights Policy”, paper prepared for the APSA Annual Conference, Section on International History and Politics Panel on American Statecraft: Past and Present. August 2014. Nominated for the Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper in the Section at the 2014 APSA convention.

“Introduction to the Colloquium on the Future of Political Science”, lecture that was part of a public event to introduce the Global Affairs Degree Program, which was sponsored by the DPSG Lecture and Colloquia Series at U.T.S.A. April 17, 2014.

“Ruth O’Brien’s Out of Many, One: Obama & the Third American Political Tradition: Are Working Class Americans Included?”, paper delivered on a book panel in the Division on Presidents and Executive Politics at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. September 2013.

“After the Election Will the U.S. be Governable?”, a lecture that was part of a public event on the presidential election sponsored by the DPSG Lecture and Colloquia Series. U.T.S.A. October 23, 2012.

“Assemblages and Agents in Explanations of Institutional Change”, for The Contours of the American State and the Making of Public Policy, a “short course” organized by the American Politics Group (United Kingdom) at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. September 2012. [The meeting was washed out by Hurricane Isaac.]

“The Costs of the War in Treasure and Truth”, a lecture that was part of a colloquium on The Lessons of the U.S. War in Iraq, with Geoffrey Corn, Mary Ann Tetreault, and Mansour El-Kikhia. U.T.S.A. April 11, 2012.

“The Obama Administration and the Long Crisis of the American Automobile Industry”, paper for the conference on Power and the History of Capitalism (sponsored by the History Department of Lang College and the New School for Social Research and the Culture of the Market Network of the University of Manchester). April 2011. 9

“The Obama Administration’s Rescue of the American Automobile Industry in the American Reform Imagination”, paper for the American Political Science Association annual conference. September 2010.

Panel member at the conference on Deficits, Debt and Depression: the U.S. Economy in the Twenty-first Century, with Iwan Morgan, Grahame Thompson, and Edward Ashbee. Copenhagen Business School. May 2010.

“Can American State and Local Labor Market Agents Solve Employment Problems?”, paper presented at the WIP Seminar at the International Center for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. April 8, 2010.

“The Progressive Political Tradition in New York: Multi-Party Elections and the Pragmatist Style of Self-Government”. Keynote paper prepared for the conference “New York, New York” at the University of Southern Denmark. March 2010.

Panel member at the conference on The Obama Election at Year One, with Ruth O’Brien, Carl Pedersen, Niels Bjerre-Poulsen and Edward Ashbee. Center for the Study of the Americas. Copenhagen Business School. November 2009.

“Unstructuring Pluralism: Adjusting Labor Management in Changing Contexts”, paper prepared for the conference on Unstructuring Politics: New Perspectives on Institutional Change, University of Oregon. June 2009.

“Obama’s Faith-Based Initiative and the Constitution”. Public lecture delivered to the Free Thinkers’ Association at the Unitarian Universalist Church in San Antonio. March 2009.

“Constructing a New Order of Labor Markets in late 20th Century America”, paper prepared for the Social Science History Association Conference. October 2008.

“Having It Both Ways: The Regional Politics of Labor Standards in U.S. Trade Policy”, paper prepared for the Policy History Conference. May 2008.

“Repertoires of Labor Regulation and the Redefinition of Employee Status in the United States”, paper prepared for the American Political Science Association annual meeting. September 2007.

“Explaining Change in the Status of American Workers: Innovation and Intercurrence in Regime Transition”. Paper presented at the New York American Political Development Colloquium. City University of New York Graduate Center. April 2006. 10

“International Influences on U.S. Labor Policy: Sources and Possibilities of America’s Composite Liberal Market Regime”, paper prepared for the Social Science History Association annual conference. November 2005.

“Constructing U.S. Labor Market Policy: How Liberal is American Labor Market Policy or What are the Opportunities for Innovation?”, paper prepared for the Social Science History Association annual conference. November 2004.

“Labor Adjustment Politics in the United States: Regional Diversity in National Strategy”, paper prepared for the American Political Science Association annual conference. August 2003.

“Political Development and Political Change: The Case of Universal Labor Standards in the United States”, paper prepared for the Policy History Conference. May 2002.

“The Durability of Change: The New Deal Labor Policy as a Case of Political Development”, paper prepared for the Western Political Science Association annual meeting. March 2002.

“American Labor Standards in America: The Case of Extending National Standards to the Southern Apparel Industry”, paper prepared for the American Political Science Association annual conference. August 2001.

"Governing Labor in Modernizing Texas", paper prepared for the Social Science History Association annual conference. November 2000.

"Collective Bargaining: A 20th Century Policy Whose Time Is Up? Arguments about Unions and Political Development", paper prepared for the Conference on Policy History. May 1999.

"Regional Receptivity to National Political Reform in the U.S.: Two Cases of Changing Industrial Order", paper prepared for the American Political Science Association annual conference. August 1998.

"Political Reconstruction of Regional Economies in the United States", paper prepared for the Western Political Science Association annual conference. March 1997.

"Labor, Race and Employment: Can the End of New Deal Reformism Become the Opportunity for a New Reform Politics?", paper prepared for the Social Science History Association annual conference. November 1995. 11

"High Road Possibilities for the Economy: Multilateral Monitoring as a Constitutive Act", paper prepared for the Southern Labor Studies Association annual conference. October 1995.

"The Contrasting Consequences of Institutions and Politics: Labor and Industrial Relations in the U.S. and Germany". Paper prepared for the Symposium on Labor and Politics at the George Meany Memorial Archives. Washington, D.C. November 1994.

"The Contrary Consequences of Labor-Party Alliances: American and German Unionism Compared, 1945-1994", paper prepared for the Social Science History Association annual conference. October 1994.

"Patterns of State Intervention in Apprentice Training: Is There a Future for Industrial Citizenship?", paper prepared for the 15th Annual North American Labor History Conference on Labor, Citizenship and the State. October 1993.

"Political Obstacles to Up-Skilling Strategies: A Chapter in the History of Industrial Governance", paper prepared for the Western Political Science Association annual meeting. March 1993.

"Politics and Industrial Order", paper prepared for the American Political Science Association annual meeting. August 1992.

"Flexibility Under Fordism", paper prepared for the Fourth Annual Labor Studies Center conference, University of Notre Dame. April 1991.

"From the Gilded Age to Normalcy: The Political Realignment of Labor Markets in Detroit, Chicago and Milwaukee", paper prepared for the Southwestern Political Science Association annual meeting. March 1991.

"Historical Sources of Regional Patterns of Industrial Governance in the United States", paper prepared for the panel on Historical Assumptions of Political Science at the Western Political Association annual meeting. March 1990.

"The Old Politics of Inequality: The Autoworkers Union in the Liberal Keynesian State", paper prepared for the American Historical Association annual conference. December 1988.

"Union Strategies, Party Coalitions and Industrial Relations", paper prepared for the American Political Science Association annual meeting. August 1985.

"Alternatives to Fordism: The Autoworkers in the Postwar Settlement", paper prepared for the Social Science History Association annual conference. October 1983. 12

GRANTS

UTSA Faculty Development Leave, Spring 2011.

Fellowship at the Klitgaarden Refugium in Skagen, Denmark. May 2010. Klitgaarden Fonden.

Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies. Award for Teaching and Research, 2009 – 2010. Copenhagen Business School.

UTSA University Faculty Research Awards, 1989, 1996, 2003.

College of Liberal and Fine Arts (UTSA) Research Travel Grant, 2001.

Ford Foundation. $1,000,000 was granted for the Network for a Progressive Texas (Protex), 1998 – 2004. I served on the board of Protex, an advocacy project to unite grass roots social service organizations in Texas, including on its Finance and Strategic Plan committees.

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (UTSA) Research Travel Grants, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2000.

Metropolitan Research and Policy Institute (UTSA), Research Travel Grant, 1998.

John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, 1989. Dissertation support.

Henry Kaiser Family Foundation/Walter P. Reuther Library, 1986. Dissertation support.

Harry S Truman Library Institute, 1985. Dissertation support.

Program in Science, Technology and Society (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 1982, 1984. Dissertation support.

TEACHING

Copenhagen Business School. Department of International Culture and Communications Studies, 2009 - 2010.

 Politics and Society in North America and South America (graduate course, team-taught). 13

 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, 1987 - .

 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)  Democratic Experimentalism (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. 14

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1980. Teaching Assistant for Thomas Ferguson for American Politics.

SERVICE highlights

Member of the Gladys M. Kammerer Award Committee for the Best Political Science Publication in U.S. National Policy, American Political Science Association, 2017.

Chair of the Division on the Comparative Politics of Advanced Industrial Societies of the American Political Science Association, 2012 – 2013.

Member of the Council, Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association, 2004 – 2006.

Member of the American Political Science Association.  Member of the Politics and History Section  Member of the International Politics and History Section  Member of the Comparative Politics Section

Member of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (formerly the IRRA). Member of the Automobile Industry Council.

Member of the Social Science History Association.

Member of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.

Reviewer for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. 2001.

Selected Conference Participation not involving delivery of a paper:

 Chair of the APSA Division on Advanced Industrial Societies: planned and scheduled ten panels. 2013.  Panel chair and discussant at the APSA annual meeting. 2011.  Panel chair at the Social Science History Association annual meeting. 2008.  Discussant at the APSA annual meeting. 2008.  Panel organizer at the APSA annual meeting. 2007.  Panel chair and discussant at the Southwestern Political Science Association annual meeting. 2003.  Panel chair at the APSA annual meeting. 2000. Panel discussant. 1987, 1991.  Panel organizer and chair of two panels for the Social Science History Association annual meeting. 2000. 15

 Invited participant in the Race and Poverty conference sponsored by the Poverty and Race Research Action Council of Washington, D.C. San Antonio, TX. 1998.  Panel chair and discussant at the Social Science History Association annual meeting, 1997.  Panel chair for the Southern Labor Studies Association conference. 1995.  Invited participant in the Nation in Time conference. Austin, Texas. April 1994.  Invited participant in the Latino Summit on the North American Free Trade Agreement. Washington, D.C. March 1993.  Invited participant in the Labor Studies Center conferences, University of Notre Dame. 1991-93.  Invited participant at the UAW-General Motors Local PEL Program conference. 1990.

Member of the Board of the Network for a Progressive Texas (ProTex). Austin, Texas. Member of the Finance Committee and the Strategic Planning Committee. ProTex was funded by the Ford Foundation. 1998 - 02.

Professional Journal Manuscript Referee.  Journal of American History.  Journal of Policy History.  International Contributions to Labour Studies.  Industrial and Labor Relations Review.  Business History Review.

U.T.-San Antonio: Selected Service.  Member of the University Scholarship Committee, 2014 -.  Chair of the University Committee on University Libraries, 2002-03.  Member of the University Graduate Council, 1998-2002, 2004-05, 2008. Chair of the Committee on Graduate Programs and Courses, 2000-01.  Member of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts Restructuring Committee, 2001- 2002.  Chair of the Department Faculty Advisory Committee, 2015 -.  Chair of the Lectures and Colloquia Committee of the Department of Political Science, 2011 – 2013. The Committee sponsored 30 events from 2011 to the spring of 2014.  Chair of the Department of Political Science and Geography 2016 Strategic Planning Committee, 2007-08.  Member of the Political Science Doctoral Degree Program Committee.  Chair of the Graduate Studies Committee in Political Science, 1996, 1998-2000.  Coordinator of the Political Science Program, 1993-1996.

Member of the Board of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, 2012 - . 16

Member of the Board of the American Civil Liberties Union of San Antonio, 2004 - 05, 2007 - 10.

Elected member of the Board of the Mahncke Park Neighborhood Association of San Antonio. 2016 - . Vice-president, 2017 -.

Member of the Committee for Historic Mahncke Park, San Antonio TX. 2013 – 15.

Co-chair of the Tufts University Alumni Admissions Program of San Antonio, 2004 – 2014.

Member of the Bexar County (San Antonio) Democratic Party Executive Committee. 1996 – 1998, 2013 – 2014.

Chair of the Sylvan Hills Traffic Committee, 2000 - 03. Appointed to run the public planning process by the Mayor of the City of Alamo Heights TX.

Texas Faculty Association – TSTA - NEA.  Elected to Two Terms on the State Executive Committee, 1996 - 2000.  President of the UTSA Chapter, 1994 - 96.