Michael J. Zis Annotated Curriculum Vita (for Non-Tenure Track Series Review)

Senior Instructor 5015 Girard Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55419

Macalester College Department of Political Science, 203 Carnegie Hall 1600 Grand Avenue Saint Paul, MN 55105

I. EDUCATION

2002- PhD Candidate, Political Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Completed Oral and Written Exams Major Fields: American Politics and Political Theory Dissertation Topic: “In the Shadow of National Health Insurance: The Rise of America’s Health Care Supply State, 1915-1965,” Advisor: Lawrence R. Jacobs GPA: 3.8/4.0

1998 M.A. Political Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Master’s Thesis: “Shaping the Media's Agenda: The Case of Medicare Reform and the 104th Congress." GPA: 3.8/4.0

1992 B.A. with Honors in Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison Honors advisor: Robert Booth Fowler GPA: 3.9/4.0, Phi Beta Kappa

II. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Full-Time and Part-Time 2003-present Visiting Instructor, Department of Political Science, Macalester College

Part-Time, Only 2016 Programs Specialist, Institute for Global Citizenship, Macalester College 2010 & 2014 Visiting Instructor, Department of Political Science, Hamline University 2008 Visiting Instructor, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 2006 Visiting Instructor, Department of Political Science, Minneapolis Community and Technical College 1997-1998 Instructor, Department of English and Literature, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

III. TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Macalester College American Political Thought (2018) Supplemental Writers Workshop (2017) US Politics (2003-2018) Urban Politics (2010-2016) American Government Institutions (2012-2014, 2017) Food Politics and Policy in America/Food Politics (2012-2016) Sustainability for Global Citizenship Seminar (2015-2016) Jews and Politics (2016) Politics and Policymaking: Government and Medicine/Health Policy (2005-2015) Legislative Politics (2013-2014) Policy Issues: American Democracy, Inequality, and Public Policy (2006) Democratic Engagement (2006) Policy Issues: American Social Policy (2005).

Hamline University Politics of Urban and Metropolitan Government (2010 & 2014)

University of Minnesota Politics of Public Affairs (2008) for the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs

Minneapolis Community Lectured as substitute in US Politics and World Politics (2006) and Technical College.

University of Minnesota English Composition (1997-1998) Writing in the Social Sciences (1998).

IV. RELEVANT NON-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

1999-2002 Project Consultant/Health Policy Coordinator, Minnesota Senior Health Options (MSHO) Demonstration Project Minnesota Department of Human Services, St. Paul MN

1998-1999 Policy Research Analyst, Minnesota Senate Office of Counsel and Research, St. Paul, MN

V. RECENT SERVICE AT MACALESTER COLLEGE, 2010-PRESENT

2016-2017 Coanaged the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation "Lifelong Learners" grant with Tina Kruse, Karin Trail Johnson, and Paul Schadewald under the auspices of the Institute for Global Citizenship. I led and developed two successful week-long faculty and staff urban colloquia in the Pacific Northwest in May and June of 2017. Both continued to strengthen College relationships with community and academic partners in the Pacific Northwest and facilitated the exploration of critical urban issues. The Seattle program focused on innovation, homelessness, displacement, multiculturalism, and community development, while the Portland program was focused on urban sustainability broadly conceived. Colloquia also focused on helping faculty members consider the process of immersive learning and its meaning for a liberal arts education.

2012-2016 Developed two community based research courses, with strong civic engagement components.

In the three Food Politics and Policy courses I taught, students were assigned a Twin Cities organization for which they collaborated on a semester long project. These courses enabled students to make a difference in the community, and strengthened organizational relationships with Macalester College. For example, one group developed a (successful) Ramsey County Board proposal to allow Frogtown Farms to compost household organic vegetable matter on its premises. Other organizations included Open Arms, Urban Roots, Hmong American Partnership, Stone’s Throw Farm, the Wedge Co-op, Renewing the Countryside, and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP).

I also helped design and mentor students in the Sustainability for Global Citizenship course, the 25-week long flagship seminar for the college-wide Educating Sustainability Ambassadors (ESA) initiative housed in the Institute for Global Citizenship. The course helped prepare students for a 10-week long “sustainability” project that they developed in collaboration with a local organization and worked on over the summer. These organizations included the American Refugee Committee (ARC), Hmongtown Marketplace, Macalester-Groveland Neighborhood Council, Project for Pride in Living, Children’s HeartLink, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, the Metropolitan Council, and Friends of the Boundary Waters. With the exception of ARC, I mentored the students over the summer. This included weekly meetings with the student cohort, organizational site visits, and regular check-ins with their supervisors. Because students had to apply and interview for the course, I also was deeply involved in both the recruitment and selection process.

2010-2018 Supervised 53 community-based, academic internships for students interning for state and national legislative offices, policy think tanks, interest groups and other organizations.

2010-2016 Supervised 4 preceptors – one for Sustainability for Global Citizenship, one for Legislative Politics, and two for US Politics.

2013-2018 Interviewed applicants for the Truman Scholarship

2015-2016 Led two sessions for the Semester’s Study-away Returnee Lunch Series

2016-8 Served on Political Science Awards Committee

2014-2017 Involved in discussions to develop a Food and Agricultural Studies Concentration

2015 Selected for, participated in, and helped lead a session for Educating Sustainability Ambassadors workshop.

2014 Selected for and participated in Seattle Faculty Urban Colloquium

2011-2016 Helped mentor students and evaluated letters for students applying and participating in the national Project Pericles policy conference in concert with Paul Schadewald at the Civic Engagement Center

2011 Participated in discussion panels organized by the student Political Science Association on elections and health care policy.

2011 Supervised two independent student projects on food policy, both focused on food access (Camille Mefleh and Simon Kassel)

2011-2012 Supervised Honors Thesis for Kaitlin Roh, “Challenges to Policy Implementation: An Examination of an Integrated Health Care Delivery Demonstration Project.”

2010 Mentored Bonner Public Policy Fellows developing policy wiki pages in concert with Macalester’s Civic Engagement Center

VI. PRESENTATIONS

2018 Community-engaged, Lifelong Learning for Students and Faculty, with Paul Schadewald, January Professional Activities Workshop, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, January.

2017 Political Dissent in Putin's Russia and Trump's America: From Protest to Power, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN with Julia Chadaga and Christina Manning

2016 More than the Environment! The Journey to a Community Engaged, Multi- Dimensional Sustainability Course, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education Conference, Baltimore, MD, October.

2015 Educating Sustainability Ambassadors: Insights from a Campus-wide Sustainability Initiative, The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education Conference, Minneapolis, with Daniel Trudeau and Christie Manning, October.

2015 The Sustainability Seminar: A Model for Sustainability Curriculum Connected to the Local Community: Michael Zis, Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability (UMACS) conference, Bemidji State University, June 2015, with Christie Manning.

2011 US Health Care Reform: A Global Perspective, Macalester College, sponsored by Minnesota Public Interest Research Group (MPIRG), November.

2010 Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die: Health Care Reform in Minnesota. Sabes Jewish Community Center, Saint Louis Park, MN, January.

2010 Spooked by Socialized Medicine, Seduced by Technology: America’s Delusional Path Toward Health Care Reform, University of Cincinnati College of Law, sponsored by the American Constitutional Society for Law and Policy, January.

2009 Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die: Health Care Reform in Minnesota. Macalester College, sponsored by Center for Religious and Spiritual Life, September.

2008 Twin Cities Public Television. Almanac: Political Science Panel. May.

2000 With Tim Ryan. Making Sense of Minnesota’s Senior Dual Eligible Population: What the Minnesota Integrated Medicare/Medicaid Database Will Tell Us. Annual meeting of the Minnesota Conference on Aging, St. Cloud, MN, August.

1998 Shaping the Media's Agenda: The Case of Medicare Reform and the 104th Congress. Annual Meeting of the 1998 Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April.

1997 Exploring the Lost World of Campaign Finance: An Inquiry into PAC Strategy and PAC Organization in Local Politics. Annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April.

VIII. HONORS AND AWARDS

2016 MN Campus Presidential Award from Macalester College’s Civic Engagement Center

1993-4 Harold Chase Memorial Fellowship (1993-4).

1991 Phi Beta Kappa (1991).

IX. RELEVANT COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

2016- Board of Trustees, Heilicher Minneapolis Jewish Day School, Saint Louis Park, MN

2008- Community Building and Organizing Committee, Jewish Community Action, Saint Paul, MN

2008-2014 Board of Directors, Jewish Community Action, Saint Paul, MN. Chair of Community Building and Organizing Committee (CBOC), Jewish Community Action, Saint Paul, MN.

2007-2010 Co-chair of the Social Justice Committee, Beth El Synagogue, Saint Louis Park, MN.

Email/Phone E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Office: (651) 696-6536; Cell: (612) 310-0596; home (612) 824-8249