Dr. Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado
Associate Professor

Department of Political Science
Arts and Science Hall, Room 275 F
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Tel: 402-554-4859
Fax: 402-554-4860
Email: jalvarado@unomaha.edu

Fall 2008 Office Hours:
Tuesday 9:00-10:00 a.m., 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Thursday 9:00-10:00 a.m., 1:00-2:00 p.m. and 5:00-6:00 p.m.
and by appointment

 

Dr. Benjamin-Alvarado joined the faculty at the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2000 from a previous teaching and research position at the University of Georgia, where he also received his Ph.D. Besides his teaching duties, Dr. Benjamin-Alvarado is the Assistant Director of the Office of Latino/Latin American Studies at UNO.  Active in Omaha's Hispanic community, he is the President of the Board of Directors of the Chicano Awareness Center Dr. Benjamin-Alvarado received an Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award for the Social Sciences in 2003.

 

  Courses Taught:

PSCI 1000 Introduction to Political Science
PSCI 3140 Latino/a Politics
PSCI 3260 United States Foreign Policy
PSCI 3680 Latin American Politics
PSCI 4280 Inter-American Politics
PSCI 4350 Democracy
PSCI 4360 Authoritarian Regimes
PSCI 8200 Seminar in Foreign and Security Policy

 

Current Research:

Power to the People: Energy and the Cuban Nuclear Program. Routledge 2000.

Cuba's Energy Strategy: Economic Considerations.  Technological Choices and Sustainability. Univ. Press of Florida, 2006.