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Evelyne Huber, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Career and Accomplishments

Evelyne Huber is Morehead Alumni Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  She studied at the University of Zurich and received both her M.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1977) from Yale University. Her interests are in comparative politics and political economy. She is the author of The Politics of Workers' Participation: The Peruvian Approach in Comparative Perspective (1980), co-author of Democratic Socialism in Jamaica (with John D. Stephens, 1986); co-author of Capitalist Development and Democracy (with Dietrich Rueschemeyer and John D. Stephens, 1992), co-winner of the Outstanding Book Award 1991-92 from the American Sociological Association, Political Sociology Section; and co-author of Development and Crisis of the Welfare State (with John D. Stephens, 2001), winner of the Best Book Award 2001 from the American Political Science Association, Political Economy Section. She has also contributed articles to, among others, World Politics, Latin American Research Review, Comparative Politics, Politics and Society , Comparative Political Studies, The Journal of Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, Comparative Social Research, Political Power and Social Theory, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, and Journal of Economic Perspectives . She received the Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction from the University of North Carolina in 2004. She has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst, Germany, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences in Uppsala, the Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame, and the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Statement of Views

I am strongly committed to advancing political science through research, teaching, and work in professional organizations.  I have served the APSA in various capacities, such as President of the Comparative Politics Section 2001-2003, Member of the Nominating Committee 2001- 2002, Member of the Taskforce on Difference and Inequality in the Third World 2004-06, and Member of three different award committees.  I also strongly believe that political science and other social sciences and the professional associations promoting them benefit from engaging with each other and from doing so across national borders.  I hope to bring my experience from working in various capacities with the Latin American Studies Association and the Social Science Research Council to bear on the deliberations in the APSA Council.