The Pomona Politics Department
Heather Williams
- Associate Professor of Politics, 1998
- B.A., Amherst College
- Ph.D., Yale University
- Contact Information
- Office: Carnegie 9
- Phone Number: 909-607-3088
- E-mail: heather.williams@pomona.edu
- Classes
- Politics 5: Comparative Politics
- Politics 6: Comparative Politics, Mexico Focus
- Politics 8: Introduction to International Relations (current)
- Politics 60: The Global Politics of Food and Agriculture (current)
- Politics 165: The Politics of Modern Latin America
- Politics 169: Revolution and Reform in Latin America
- Expertise Areas
- Social Movements
- Global Politics of Food & Agriculture
- Insurgency
- Political Economy
- Latin American Politics
- Politics of Food
- Research Interests
- Mexico
- Contentious Politics
- Political Economy of Latin America
- Social Movements, Protest, Political Insurgency
- Politics of Food and Agriculture
- Selected Publications
- Social Movements and Economic Transition: Markets and Distributive Conflict in Mexico (Cambridge University, 2001)
- “Legal Farce and Labor Tragedy: The Han Young Struggle in Tijuana, Mexico,” Social Science History 27 (4):525-550 Winter 2003
- “Haiti As Target Practice: How the U.S. Media Missed the Story,” Counterpunch, March 1, 2004
- "Of Free Trade and Debt Bondage: Fighting Banks and the State in Mexico," Latin American Perspectives, July 2001
- "Lessons from the Labor Front: The Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras," in Cross Border Dialogues: U.S. Social Movement Networking (D. Brooks and J. Fox, eds., La Jolla: UCSD Center for U.S. Mexico Studies, 2002)
- Planting Trouble: The Barzon Debtors' Movement in Mexico (Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies/ UCSD, 1996)
- "Mobile Capital and Transborder Labor Rights Mobilization" in Politics and Society, March 1999
- Awards and Honors
- American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship Recipient, 2001-2002
- University of Pennsylvania, Sawyer Series on Globalization and Inequality, Research Fellowship, 1997-1998
- Stanford University, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Participant in Seminar in Contentious Politics, 1996-1998
- U.C. San Diego, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, Guest Scholar, 1995-1996
- Yale University, Awarded Distinction for doctoral thesis
- Useful Links
- Institute for Food and Agricultural Policy
- Political Database of the Americas
- Interhemispheric Resource Center, Americas Program
- Washington Office on Latin America
- Waterkeeper Alliance
- La Opinion
- Institute for Policy Studies