Eric Oliver
Eric Oliver |
Major Areas of Interest: |
- Urban Politics |
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Selected Publications: |
- Fat Politics: the Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic (2005) |
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| E-Mail: | eoliver@uchicago.edu | |
| Phone: | (773) 702-9784 | |
| Office: | Pick 518A | |
| Office hours: | W 1:00-3:00 |
Eric Oliver is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. His interests include contemporary American politics, suburban and racial politics, political psychology, and the politics of science. His books include Democracy in Suburbia (Princeton University Press, 2001), Fat Politics: the Real Story Behind America's Obesity Epidemic (Oxford University Press 2005), and The Paradoxes of Integration: Race, Neighborhood, and Civic Life in Multi-ethnic America (University of Chicago Press, 2010). He has also authored numerous articles in journals such as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, International Journal of Epidemiology, and Urban Affairs Review on topics ranging from absentee voting to happiness in suburbs. He has been a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar at Yale University (1999-2001), a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation (2002-2003), and winner of a Young Investigators Career Award from the National Science Foundation. Eric is currently working on a book about vote choice in local elections and researching the evolutionary origins of contemporary political cognition.
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