Department of Government and Politics

Dr. Noah Zerbe

Associate Professor, Department of Politics

Humboldt State University

 

I joined the Department of Politics at Humboldt State University in the fall of 2004. I am also affiliated with the Master of Arts in Social Science: Environment and Community Program, and the Master of Science: Energy, Environment, and Society Program.

 

Prior to arriving at HSU, I spent two years as a post doctoral fellow at the Centre de Philosophie du Droit at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium. I've also spent extensive time in Canada, Zimbabwe, and Russia.

 

My research and teaching interests consider the social, political and economic context of technological development and innovation. Empirically, I focus on issues surrounding the adoption of agricultural biotechnology in Southern Africa. This includes both the technology itself as well as the international, regional and local context of adoption. My empirical research informs more theoretical questions regarding privatization and enclosure, the nature of value, theories of property, property rights and ownership, social conceptions of risk, the role of the state, the nature of regulation and public policy, and the role of social movements and local resistance. My more recent work, including a summer Fulbright grant to Germany, has focused on differing systems of regulation in the United States and Europe.

 

I’m the author of the Global Food Politics blog.

 

My Teaching: Current and past courses taught as well as my statement of teaching philosophy.

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My Research: A statement of my research interests and links to ongoing and past research projects and publications.

 

My Vitae.