Sybil Rhodes

Associate Professor

3416 Friedmann Hall
(269) 387-5700

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Sybil Rhodes is a specialist in Latin American politics, especially Brazil and the Southern Cone. Her specific area of research interest is the influence of civil society and social movements on public policy, including economic regulation as well as foreign policy and citizenship policy. She is the author of "Social Movements and Free-Market Capitalism in Latin America: Telecommunications Privatization and the Rise of Consumer Protest" (2006, Albany: SUNY Press). A piece on Brazilian-U.S. relations is forthcoming this year in Global Perspectives on the United States, Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire (edited by Karen Christiansen and David Levinson). One of her ongoing projects addresses the politics of regulating agricultural biotechnology in South America; a second line of research looks at the political causes and effects of multiple citizenship policies around the world. Dr. Rhodes teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on comparative politics and qualitative methods, and she is the faculty advisor to the International Politics Forum, a registered student organization sponsored by the Political Science Department.