Meet Your Professor

POLI 120E: SCANDINAVIAN POLITICS

Meet Your Professor
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Kaare W. Strom

Distinguished Professor

Email : kstrom@ucsd.edu

Zoom Link for Office Hours :

Hello and Welcome to POLI 120E: Scandinavian Politics!

Kaare W. Strøm will be the principal course instructor.  Born and raised in the Norwegian town of Arendal (now familiar to many, in slightly twisted form, thanks to Disney), he attended St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN) as an international student and then earned his MA and PhD from Stanford University. He is a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Politics at UC San Diego and has published a number of books and articles on Parliamentary Democracy, Political Parties, Powersharing, and European Politics. He was Study Center Director for the UC EAP programs in Lund and Copenhagen 2002-04 and taught in the UC–Lund University Joint Summer School on Critical World Issues from 2004 to 2008. He has taught a UC San Diego Global Seminar in Copenhagen in 2012 and one in Dublin in 2016. His email is: kstrom@ucsd.edu. He will hold office hours on Zoom Thursdays 12–1pm PST and by appointment. 

 

Teaching Assistant:

Eric Thai will be the course Teaching Assistant.  He is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at UC San Diego.  His intellectual interests are in globalization and human rights. Eric hails from the San Gabriel Valley region and earned his undergraduate degree at UC Davis. He also studied abroad at the London School of Economics in the UK. Eric’s email is: ethai@ucsd.edu.  He will hold office hours on Zoom as announced.

In addition to the office hours posted here, there will also be an online discussion board, regularly monitored by the teaching team, to which you can submit questions at any time.    

 

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