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Faculty Leadership

Our core and affiliate faculty and program lecturers bring a wide range of approaches and disciplinary backgrounds to community studies. Learn more about them in our website’s Faculty tab pages.

Faculty Program Director

Michael A. McCarthy

Title
- Director of Community Studies
Phone
831-459-4431
Email
- mimccart@ucsc.edu

Program Executive Committee

Heather E Bullock

Title
- Director, Center for Economic Justice and Action
Phone
831-459-5018
Email
- hbullock@ucsc.edu

Julie H Guthman

Title
- Distinguished Professor Emerita
Phone
831-459-2726 (office)
Email
- jguthman@ucsc.edu

Alison Alkon

Title
- Associate Teaching Professor of Community Studies
Email
- aalkon@ucsc.edu

Matthew B Sparke

Title
- Distinguished Professor of Politics
Phone
831-459-3153
Email
- msparke@ucsc.edu