UMass Boston

Joshua Weitz, Visiting Assistant Professor, Conflict Resolution, Human Security & Governance

Joshua Weitz

Department:
Conflict Resolution, Human Security & Governance
Title:
Visiting Assistant Professor

Biography

Joshua Weitz is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His research sits at the intersection of party politics and political economy, with a substantive focus on supply-side theories of populism in the wealthy capitalist democracies of Western Europe and North America.

Area of Expertise

Comparative party politics

Comparative political economy

Business and politics

Populism

Inequality

Europe and the United States

Degrees

PhD, Brown University (political science)

MA, Brown University (political science)

BA, City University of New York (sociology)