Faculty & Staff
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Sam Nunn School of International Affairs
781 Marietta Street, NW
Room 150
Atlanta, GA 30332 Phone: 404-385-4081
E-mail: michelle.dion@inta.gatech.edu
Michelle Dion –– On Leave AY2009-2010
Associate Professor
Program Director for Mexico Summer Study Abroad Program
Education
Ph.D., Political Science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
M.A., Political Science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
B.A., Latin American Studies, University of Texas-Austin
Research Focus
The political economy of social policy in Latin America. Dr. Michelle Dion has written a book on the political development of welfare in Mexico since the Revolution based on three years of research in Mexico funded by the Social Science Research Council and the Fulbright Faculty Scholars program. Her research has appeared in Social Policy and Administration, Journal of Latin American Studies, PS: Political Science and Politics, Global Social Policy, Social Politics, Latin American Politics and Society, and other journals. She has been a Visiting Professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City and at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico.
Courses Taught
INTA 2030: Contemporary Mexico
INTA 3241: Latin American Politics
INTA 3310: Intl Political Econonmy
INTA 4740 Senior Seminar in Political Economy
INTA 4741 Senior Thesis in Political Economy
INTA 4803 Special Topic: Latin American Political Economy
INTA 6003: Empirical Research Method
INTA 8803: Latin American Politics