Michael G. Schatzberg (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Submitted:  Wed, 3 September 22003


Michael G. Schatzberg
Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1050 Bascom Mall
Madison, Wisconsin  53706 USA

phone:   608-263-2392
fax:     608-265-2663
e-mail:  schatzberg@polisci.wisc.edu



Michael Schatzberg's major teaching and research interests are in African
politics, comparative politics, and political culture. 

His new research project deals with the politics, economics, and culture of
football (soccer) in sub-Saharan Africa.


Selected publications -- Books

Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa: Father, Family, Food.
(Indiana University Press, 2001)

Mobutu or Chaos? The United States and Zaire, 1960-1990. (Foreign Policy 
Research Institute, 1991)

The Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire. (Indiana University Press, 1988)

Politics and Class In Zaire: Bureaucracy, Business and Beer in Lisala.
(Holmes & Meier, Africana, 1980)


He has also published articles in Politique africaine, Journal of Democracy,
Africa, Comparative Politics, Journal of Modern African Studies, and other
professional journals.