William Stanley Stewart
Professor Emeritus
Office: Butte 745
Telephone: (530) 898-5199
Email: wstewart@csuchico.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Political Science, 1972. The University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Concentrations in Latin America, development
administration, comparative government, and American government.
MA in Latin American Studies, 1967. Indiana
University. History and politics of Latin America.
BA in Philosophy and English Literature,
1960. Pomona College. cum laude.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor of Political Science, California
State University at Chico, 1988- present; Associate Professor, 1986-1988;
Visiting Lecturer, 1975-1986.
Coordinator of Political Science Program,
Fall, 1992- present.
Director of Merida Program, California
State University at Chico, Fall, 1990. Director of Morelia Program, California
State University at Chico, 1978-1980.
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia, 1972-1975.
Researcher, Public Administration Unit
of the Organization of American States, Washington, D.C. and Caracas,
Venezuela, 1971.
Investigator and Field Supervisor of Research,
North Carolina Committee on Law and Order, Raleigh, N.C. Jail study and
court study, summers of 1969 and 1970.
Area Development Supervisor, Fauquier
Community Action Committee, Warrenton, Virginia, 1967-1968.
Assistant to Director, Non-Western Studies
Project, Indiana University, 1967
Assistant Master (English and Core Mathematics),
Raglan District High School, Raglan, New Zealand, 1965-1966.
Professor of English as a Second Language,
Universidad de Oriente (Cumand, jusepin, and Ciudad Bolivar), 1963-1964.
(Peace Corps Volunteer.)
PUBLISHED WORKS:
Understanding Politics, Chandler
& Sharp, Novato, CA, 1988.
Change and Bureaucracy. Public Administration
in Venezuela, University of North Carolina Press, 1978.
"Venezuelan Public Administration, 1958-1974"
in Venezuela: the Democratic Experience, John Martz and David Meyers,
eds., Praeger, 1977. This article was revised and up-dated for the 1988
edition of this book.
INTERESTS
Since my time in the Peace Corps in Venezuela
in the early 60s I have been interested in the problems of development
and change, an interest which came to include- the United States while
I was working in the War on Poverty in Virginia in 1967. While the- problems
of imperialism and the struggles against it are crucial to third world
countries the same problems
occur within the imperial nations. The
strategies of exploitation, repression, and resistance are usually much
the same, and the insights gained in one area can be used in the other.
My own work for the past ten years has
been in the conceptualization of a
multi-cultural approach to politics, with
a particular regard for the functions of truth in living and the effects
of these functions upon different cultures. How truths can be changed through
governmental policies as well as changing economic patterns
and rebellion is a focus which ties together
many strands which are usually left separate. Both I and my students have
found it a helpful approach in understanding American society as well as
Latin American.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Spanish: Fluent in conversation, reading and writing.