Ronald Schmidt Jr.

Associate Professor of Political Science specializing in political theory (American and European), racial and ethnic politics (American) and urban politics; University of California, Berkeley, B.A., 1988, M.A., 1990, Ph.D, 1998.  He is the author of This Is the City: Making Model Citizens in Los Angeles (University of Minnesota Press, 2005).  Joined the University of Southern Maine in 1999 and is currently the department's Faculty Advising Liason.