Mark Sawyer

Professor
Department: Political Science
Box 951472
4289 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472
Tel: 310-825-6629
Fax: 310-825-0778
msawyer@polisci.ucla.edu
Website
Keywords: Cuba

Mark Sawyer is currently a Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at UCLA and the Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics. In fall of 2005 he was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in December of 1999.

His current work includes a book entitled, " Racial Politics in Post Revolutionary Cuba" that was recently published by Cambridge University press.  His book received the DuBois Award for the best book by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and the Ralph Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association. He has written articles on the intersection between race and gender in modern Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic and additional work on the impact of race relations on democratic transition in Cuba.  He also has interest in the area of race, immigration and citizenship around the globe. He has published in the Journal of Political Psychology, Perspectives on Politics, SOULS, as well as the UCLA Journal of International and Foreign Affairs. He is a member of the American Political Science Association, and the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.