Steven Tauber
Professor / Vice Provost for Faculty Administration
Contact
Home Campus: Tampa
Office: SOC 356
Telephone: (813) 974-2278
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Bio
Dr. Steven Tauber is a Professor of Political Science in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida. He was the chair of the Department of Government & International Affairs from 2012 through 2016, and he was the founding Director of the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, serving from 2016 through 2019. He teaches classes in American politics, American Political Thought, and judicial politics. He has published numerous journal articles and chapters in edited volumes on a variety of topics in political science, but his research mainly focuses on social justice politics, especially on the issue of the exploitation of nonhuman animals. His book Navigating the Jungle: Law, Politics, and the Animal Advocacy Movement (Routledge 2016) investigates the political constraints facing animal activists’ use of the judiciary to achieve justice for animals. His award-winning coauthored (with Paula McClain, Duke University) book American Government in Black and White (Oxford University Press, 5th edition, 2021) examines the essentials of American government through the lens of race and ethnicity. He is currently studying the importance of nonhuman animals in global politics.
Research
Animal Rights, American Politics, the Politics of Race and Ethnicity, and Judicial Behavior
Graduate Students
Marcel Collin, Charles Fletcher, Eric Hart, Rebecca Schoffman, Janae Thomas