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Merrill College
Merrill Academic Building
Room 32
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

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Manuel Pastor

Manuel Pastor   
    Title:  Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies & Director, Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community
    Email:  mpastor@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-5919 Office
    Office:  Merrill Annex 57
    Office Hours:  On leave 2008 - 2009
    Personal Page:  http://people.ucsc.edu/~mpastor/

Education History 
Ph.D., Economics
University of Massachusetts

Courses Taught 
08-09
Not Teaching

07-08
Not Teaching

06-07
LALS 1 - Introduction to LALS

Research Focus 
Urban poverty and regional development, Latinos in the urban U.S., environmental justice, macroeconomic stabilization in Latin America; distribution and growth in the developing world; Cuban economic reform; Mexican economic reform

Selected Publications 

Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground: New Dimensions on Race in America (with Angela Glover-Blackwell and Stewart Kwoh), New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.

Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together (with Peter Dreier and Marta López-Garza, Occidental College, and Eugene Grigsby, UCLA), University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

“Waiting to Inhale: The Demographics of Toxic Air Releases in 21st Century California,” with Jim Sadd and Rachel Morello-Frosch, forthcoming, Social Science Quarterly.

Up Against the Sprawl: Public Policy and the (Re-)Making of Southern California, edited volume, co-editors are Jennifer Wolch and Peter Dreier, forthcoming, University of Minnesota Press.

"Reading, Writing, and Toxics: Children's Health, Academic Performance, and Environmental Justice in Los Angeles," (with Jim Sadd and Rachel Morello-Frosch) forthcoming, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, vol. 22, no. 1, 2004.

"Labor Market Intermediaries in the Old and New Economies: A Survey of Worker Experiences in Milwaukee and Silicon Valley" with Laura Leete, Chris Benner, and Sarah Zimmerman, in Robert Giloth, editor, Workforce Intermediaries for the 21st Century (Temple University Press, 2003).

"Rising Tides and Sinking Boats: The Economic Challenge for California's Latinos," in David Lopez and Andres Jimenez, editors, Latinos and Public Policy in California: An Agenda for Opportunity, Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Public Policy Press, 2003.

"Building Social Capital to Protect Natural Capital: The Quest for Environmental Justice," in James K. Boyce and Barry Shelley, editors, Natural Assets: Democratizing Environmental Ownership (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2003).

" 'An Option for the Poor': A Research Audit for Community-Based Regionalism in California’s Central Coast" (with Chris Benner and Rachel Rosner), Economic Development Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 2, May, 2003.

"A Long View of Mexico's Political Economy: What's Changed? What are the Challenges?" in Joseph S. Tulchin and Andrew D. Selee, editors, Mexico's Politics and Society in Transition (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003).