Faculty

Peter N. Funke

Associate Professor

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Home Campus: Tampa
Office: SOC 376
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Office Hours: By appointment

Bio

I am an Associate Professor of Politics at the 最新天美传媒. At USF, I teach courses on Social Movements, Europe, Politics of Development, Global Political Economy, and Marxism, as well as the 鈥淕ermany Beyond the Classroom鈥� study abroad program through the Honors College. My research focuses on social movement & contentious politics, capitalism & class, media & technology and has been published in various peer reviewed journals such as South Atlantic Quarterly, Globalizations, New Media & Society, Rethinking Marxism, New Political Science, Social Movement Studies, or Transforming Anthropology. I have also been the co-editor of 鈥淭he Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements鈥� (Temple University Press, 2017) and 鈥淭he New Global Politics: Global Social Movements in the 21st Century鈥� (Routledge, 2017) and my research has been funded by the 最新天美传媒, the Miami-Florida European Union Center of Excellence at Florida International University, the Social Science Research Council, the International Studies Association, and the University of Pennsylvania. 

I am on the International Spokes-Council & Editorial Collective (North America) of "Interface: Journal For and About Social Movements鈥�; open access at:  and serve as the faculty advisor for USF鈥檚 Young Democratic Socialists of America chapter

Education

Ph.D., Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
M.A., Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Vordiplom, Politikwissenschaft, Freie Universit盲t Berlin