Global Affairs

Dr. Richard Appelbaum

Richard P. Appelbaum, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

He currently serves as Director of the M.A. Program in Global & International Studies, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society. He is also Co-Director of the Center for Global Studies in the Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research. He has previously served as chair of the Sociology Department, and was founder and Acting Director of the UCSB Global & International Studies Program.

He received his B.A. from Columbia University, M.P.A. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago

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