Richard L. Harris

Dr. Harris is a Professor Emeritus and one of the founding faculty members of CSUMB. He has served on the faculty of several campuses of the University of California (Berkeley, Los Angeles, Riverside, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz) and the California State University system (Bakersfield, Monterey Bay, Northridge, San Francisco and San Jose) as well as Harvard University,the University of Hawai'i Hilo, Northeastern University and Suffolk University in Boston. He has also served on the faculty of the University of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico, the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City, the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, the Universidad de Chile in Santiago; the Universidad de Santiago del Estero in Argentina and the University of Zambia. He has authored and edited books, monographs and journal articles on globalization, international political economy, development, comparative public administration, global health, democracy, socialism, African and Latin American politics, China's relations with Latin America and the Caribbean and transpacific relations. Dr. Harris lives in Hawai'i and California.