AMY BRIDGES Department of Political Science 13378 Heston Place University of California, San Diego San Diego, CA 92130 La Jolla, California 92093-0521 (619) 481-2580 (619) 534-7706 abridges@ucsd.edu EMPLOYMENT 1996- Professor of Political Science, Adjunct Professor of History, University of California, San Diego 1989-2000 Director of Urban Studies and Planning, University of California, San Diego 1988-96 Associate Professor of Political Science. Adjunct Associate Professor of History, University of California, San Diego 1987-88 Visiting Professor of Political Science, Stanford University 1984-87 Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University 1979-83 Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University 1974 Internal Evaluator, Youth Community Studies Program, Staten Island Community College, City University of New York 1972-74 Adjunct Lecturer, City University of New York 1972 Staff Member to the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women, City University of New York EDUCATION Ph.D. Political Science, University of Chicago, 1980 M.Sc. Politics (Political Sociology), London School of Economics and Political Science, 1971 B.A. Urban Affairs, University of Chicago, 1970 HONORS AND AWARDS 2000 to write The Progressive Era in the Western States, American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship, and National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Univeristy Professsors for 2001-2. 1999 for Morning Glories, Municipal Reform in the Southwest, Best Book Published in 1997 in North American Urban History, Urban History Association 1998 for Morning Glories, Municipal Reform in the Southwest, Best Book Published in 1997 on Urban Politics, American, Urban Political Research Section 1987 National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Study 1978 American Association of University Women, Dissertation Fellowship
Amy Bridges Page 2 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2001 Program Chair, Western 2000 Section Chair, Politics and History, Western Political Science Association Meetings 1999 Great Britain panelist, Fulbright Fellowships 1998 Political Science panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities 1998 with David Vogel, Program Chair, Politics and History Section, Annual Meetings of the American 1996- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Policy History 1993-5 Member, Executive Committee, Western 1991-3 Member, Editorial Board, Western Political Quarterly 1991-3 Member, Editorial Board, Urban Affairs Quarterly 1991 Member, Executive Committee, Urban Politics Section, American Political Science Association 1990 Section Chair, History and Political Science, Annual Meeting of the American 1990 Section Chair, Urban and Local Government, Annual Meeting of the Western 1989 Founded, with David Brady, American Organized Section, Politics and History 1988 Political Science Panelist, NEH Fellowships 1988 Section Chair, History and Political Science, Annual Meeting of the American 1985 Member, Ralph Bunche Award Committee, American Political Science Association 1980-81 Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 1973-80 Member, Editorial Board, Politics and Society 1972-75 Member, Editorial Board, Review of Radical Political Economics BOOKS, RESEARCH ARTICLES and Katherine Underwood, "Life After Districts" Minorities at the Millenium, Glenwood, 1999 and Richard Kronick, "Writing the Rules to Win the Game, The Middle Class Regimes of Municipal Reformers" Urban Affairs Review, May 1999 "Textbook Municipal Reform" Urban Affairs Review, September 1997 Morning Glories, Municipal Reform in the Southwest, Princeton University Press, 1997 "Creating Cultures of Reform," Studies in American Political Development, Spring 1994 "Winning the West to Municipal Reform," Urban Affairs Quarterly, June 1992 "Politics and Growth in Sunbelt Cities," in Ray Mohl, editor, Searching for the Sunbelt, University of Tennessee Press, 1990
Amy Bridges Page 3 "Boss Tweed and V.O. Key in Texas," in Heywood Sanders and Frank Miller, editors, Urban Texas: Politics, Race, and Development, Texas A&M Press, 1990 "Rethinking the Origins of Machine Politics," in John Mollenkopf, et. al., Power, Culture, and Place, Russell Sage, 1988 "Becoming American, The Working Classes of the United States Before the Civil War," in Aristide Zolberg and Ira Katznelson, editors, Working Class Formation: Patterns in Nineteenth Century United States and Europe, Princeton University Press, 1986 A City in the Republic: Antebellum New York and the Origins of Machine Politics, Cambridge University Press, 1984. Paperback, Cornell University Press, 1987 "Another Look at Plutocracy and Politics in Antebellum New York City," Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 97, No. 1 (Spring 1982) "Paradigms, Politics, and Policies: Notes on Social Science and the Cities" (co-authored with Kenneth Finegold), in Clement Cottingham, editor, Race, Poverty, and the Urban Underclass, D.C. Heath, 1982 "Comparative Policy Analysis and Health Planning Processes Internationally" (co-authored with T.R. Marmor), Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Fall 1980), pp. 419-30 "Urban Locality and Externally Induced Voluntary Associations" (co-authored with R. Taub, S. Lindholm, P. Otti, and G. Surgeon), American Journal of Sociology, May 1977 "Comparative Politics and Health Policies: Notes on Benefits, Costs, and Limits" (coauthored with T.R. Marmor and W. Hoffman), in D. Ashford, editor, Comparing Public Policies, New Concepts and Methods, Sage Yearbooks in Politics and Public Policy, Vol. 4, 1977. "The Other Side of the Paycheck: Monopoly Capital and the Structure of Consumption" (co-authored with B. Weinbaum), Monthly Review, July-August 1976. "Pedagogy by the Oppressed" (co-authored with H. Hartman), Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 6, No. 4, 1975. "Nicos Poulantzas and the Marxist Theory of the State," Politics and Society, Vol 4, No. 2, 1974 COMMENTARY, BOOK REVIEWS Path Dependence, Sequence, History, Theory Studies in American Political Development Vol.14 #1, 2000 Review of Evan Cornog, The Birth of Empire: DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769-1828. Journal of American History 72 #2 (September 2000) On a Decade of Politics and History, Clio Vol.11 #2 (Spring/Summer 2000)
Amy Bridges Page 4 Review of James J. Connolly, The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in Boston 1900-1925. Journal of Interdisciplinary History XXXI:1 (Summer 2000), pp. 135-7. Review of Melvin G. Holli, The American Mayor: the Best and Worst Big-City Leaders. American Historical Review, Vol. 105 #3, (June 2000) p. 948 Review of Kevin Mattson, Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Participatory Democracy during the Progressive Era. Journal of Politics 61 #1 (February 1999) pp. 232-3 Review of Daniel Feller, The Jacksonian Promise: America 1815-1840. Jounal of Southern History, Vol. 63, #2 (May 1997) Review of Kevin Boyle, The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, Political Science Quarterly, Spring, 1997 "Is it Past time to End the Mean Season?" review of William Julius Wilson, When Work Disappears: the World of the New Urban Poor, San Diego Union Tribune, November 15, 1996 "Rethinking the Commercial Republic," comments on Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution in Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Winter 1992) Review of Richard B. Stott, Workers in the Metropolis in Journal of Economic History, September 1992 Review of Jerome Mushkat, Fernando Wood: A Political Biography in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Spring 1992 Review of Robert B. Fairbanks and Kathleen Underwood, editors, Essays on Sunbelt Cities and Recent Urban America in Journal of San Diego History, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Winter 1991) Review of Richard L. McCormick, The Party Period and Public Policy: American Politics from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 102, No. 4, 1987-8 Review of Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic, New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class 1788-1850 in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 101, No. 1, 1986 Review of Melvin G. Holli and Paul M. Green, editors, The Making of the Mayor, Chicago, 1984 in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 100, No. 1 (Spring 1985). Review of Wayne J. Urban, Why Teachers Organized in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 99, No. 2 (Summer 1984) Review of Thomas M. Guterbock, Machine Politics in Transition in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 96, No. 2 (Summer 1981) Review of Jack Newfield and Paul DuBrul, The Abuse of Power: The Permanent Government and the Fall of New York in Working Papers for a New Society, Vol. VI, No. 4 (July/August 1978)
Amy Bridges Page 5 "An Annotated Bibliography on Race and Public Policy in the United States" (co-authored with Ira Katznelson), in D. Ashford, T.J. Pempel and P. Katzenstein, A Comparative Bibliography in Public Policy, Sage Publications, 1977 Review of Thomas T. Archdeacon, New York City, 1664-1710, Conquest and Change in American Journal of Sociology, May 1977 Review of R.N. Hunt, The Political Ideas of Marx and Engels, Vol. I, Marxism and Totalitarian Democracy, 1818-1850 in Science and Society, Vol. XL, No. 2 (Summer 1976)