STEVEN MAJSTOROVIC
Associate Professor - Department of Political Science,
UWEC
Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1992
Office: 200F Schneider Hall
Phone: (714) 836-2266
Email: majstos@uwec.edu
I teach courses in Comparative Politics, Western Europe,Russia,Eastern Europe,
Introduction to Politics, Culture and Politics, andIntroduction to World Politics. My
teaching and research interests are in the area of ethnic politics, identity, conflict, conflict
resolution within an international context, and political/cultural transitions to democracy and a
market economcy in formerly authoritarian/totalitarian states. My research has appeared in the
Political Research Quarterly, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, World Affairs, International
Studies Perspectives, Annual Editions, and other professional journals along with book chapters
in edited volumes. I am now working on a book project that explores the politicization of ethnic
identity and its relationship to democracy and on a project that examines political and cultural
values among Hmong-Americans. My commitment as a teacher/scholar is to contribute to an
understanding of the cultural and value-laden dimensions of political life; political behaviors
represent complex patterns that are insufficiently explained by traditional, but still important,
economic and institutional analyses. Consequently, in this increasingly crowded and
interdependent world, a capacity to work with and among people of various social and cultural
backgrounds is indispensable for student and academic alike.