Jules Boykoff
Assistant Professor
Department of Politics and Government
Contact information
Email: boykoff@pacificu.edu
Office: Marsh Hall 234
Phone: 503.352.2887
Education:
Ph.D. American University, 2004, in political science
M.A.T. Lewis & Clark College, 1998, with specialization in English and Spanish
B.A. University of Portland, 1993, in political science
Teaching:
Professor Boykoff's teaching interests include U.S. politics, social movements, the suppression of dissent, the mass media, U.S. foreign policy, the politics of surveillance, and comparative politics. He also writes on avant-garde poetry and how art intersects with politics and resistance.
Fall 2008 Courses:
POLS 140 – Introduction to U.S. Politics
POLS 322 – The Suppression of Dissent
POLS 401 – Senior Seminar & ThesisSpring 2009 Courses:
POLS 224 – Environmental PoliticsPOLS 301 – Politics & the Media
POLS 402 – Senior Seminar & Thesis
Publications and Professional Work:
Books:
Politics:
Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry & Public Space, co-authored with Kaia Sand, Palm Press, 2008.
Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States, AK Press, 2007.
The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements, Routledge, 2006.
Poetry:
Hegemonic Love Potion, Factory School, 2009.
The Slow Motion Underneath, with Jim Dine, Steidl Editions, 2008.
Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge, Edge Books, 2006.
Recent Scholarly Publications:
"Devil or Democrat?: Hugo Chavez and the U.S. Prestige Press," New Political Science, forthcoming.
"The Dialectic of Resistance and Restriction: Dissident Citizenship and the Global Media" Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Summer/Fall 2008): 23-31.
"Limiting Dissent: The Mechanisms of State Repression in the United States" Social Movement Studies, Vol. 6, No. 3 (December 2007): 281-310.
"Climate Change and Journalistic Norms: A Case Study of U.S. Mass-Media Coverage" (with Maxwell Boykoff) Geoforum, Vol. 38, No. 6 (November 2007): 1190-1204.
"Surveillance, Spatial Compression, and Scale: The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr." Antipode, Vol. 39, No. 4 (September 2007): 729-756.
"Dissent" Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, Gary L. Anderson and Kathryn G. Herr (eds.), Sage Publications, 2007: 466-469.
"Framing Dissent: Mass Media Coverage of the Global Justice Movement" New Political Science, Vol. 28, No. 2 (June 2006): 201-228.
"Dissent" XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, Keywords, Issue 16, Spring 2006.
"Balance as Bias: Global Warming and the U.S. Prestige Press" (with Maxwell Boykoff) Global Environmental Change Vol. 15: No. 2 (July 2004): 125-136.
"Bias as Balance" (with Maxwell Boykoff). In Frank Biermann, Sabine Campe, and Klaus Jacob (eds.) Proceedings of the 2002 Berlin Conference on Global Environmental Change "Knowledge for the Sustainability Transition: The Challenge for Social Science" (Global Governance Project: Amsterdam, Berlin and Oldenberg, 2003): 239-262.
"Certifying Mexico in the War on Drugs" (with William M. LeoGrande). Pew Case, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 2001.
"The Suppression of Dissent," University of Minnesota, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2009.
"Leaf Blower Logic: Neoliberalism, Atomization, and System Legitimation," Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2009.
"A Political History of the Leaf Blower," Nonsite Collective, San Francisco, California, February 2009.
"Interventionary Art: Poetry & Public Space,” presented with Kaia Sand, Activism & the Avant-Garde: A Cross-Cultural Literary Conference, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, May 2008.
"Devil or Democrat?: Hugo Chávez and the U.S. Prestige Press," presented with Casey Nishimura, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, March 2008.
"Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and the Politicization of Public Space," presented with Kaia Sand, Cultural Studies Association Conference, Portland, Oregon, April 2007.
"Dissident Citizenship and the Media: The Case of Martin Luther King, Jr.," presented with Kevin Hagan, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2007.
"The Politics of Global Warming in the United States," Mercy Corps, Portland, Oregon, 22 January 2007.
"Squelching Dissent in the USA," Forest Grove Community Auditorium, Forest Grove, Oregon, 10 January 2007.
"Balance as Bias: U.S. Media Coverage of Global Warming," United Nations Climate Change Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, 14 November 2006.
"Poems in the Streets: Poetry, Dissent, and the Politicization of Public Space in the United States,” with Kaia Sand, Poetry and Politics: A Conference, University of Stirling, Scotland, July 2006.
"Surveillance and Spatial Depletion: The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois, March 2006.
“The Suppression of Dissent: How the U.S. Mass Media Help Hobble Social Movements,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 2006.
Recent Popular Publications
"In the Arc of American Dissent," St. Paul Pioneer Press, (25 April 2009).
"Obama Must Rein in 'Terrorist' Databases," The Capital Times, (21 January 2009).
"My Own Private Bail-out," (with Dave Zirin) The Guardian, (14 January 2009).
"Poetry for the Passersby," (with Kaia Sand), Portland Alliance, (December 2008).
"Hugo Chávez and the U.S. Media," ZNet, (19 November 2008).
"Pro Soccer? Please. Public Money? No," The Oregonian, (16 October 2008).
"Security or Liberty?: It's a False Choice," The Oregonian, (6 February 2008).
"The Hidden Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.," Common Dreams, (21 January 2008).
"'Homegrown' Suppression of Dissent" Common Dreams, (30 November 2007).
"Awareness Is Two Steps Ahead. Paranoia Is Two Steps Behind" Common Dreams, (26 August 2007).
"Global Warming: An Inconvenient Principle" (with Maxwell Boykoff) Common Dreams, (6 July 2006).
"Some Calm in the Eye of the Surveillance Storm?" Common Dreams, (19 May 2006).
"'Terrorism' or Terrorism?: A Case of Selective Morality" Common Dreams, (29 January 2006).
"Patriot Acting: Congress, 'Compromise,' and the USA Patriot Act" Common Dreams, 16 February 2006.
"New 'Roberts Rules' are Recipe for Surprise" The Oregonian, 22 September 2005.
"Tangents 82-98" Chain, issue #12 (Summer 2005).
"Journalistic Balance as Global Warming Bias: Creating controversy where science finds consensus" (with Maxwell Boykoff) Extra! (November/December 2004). Reprinted in Global Climate Change, (Reference Shelf 78:01).
"Southern Maryland Sign Project" (with Kaia Sand) Chain, issue #11 (Summer 2004).
"A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Nicaragua?" NACLA: Report on the Americas 34: 4 (January/ February 2001).
Recent Book Reviews
Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy by Stephen Duncombe, XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics, No. 18 (Fall 2007).
How Patriotic Is the Patriot Act?: Freedom Versus Security in the Age of Terrorism by Amitai Etzioni, Journal of Politics, Vol. 68, No. 2 (May 2006).
Platform by Rodrigo Toscano, Tripwire, forthcoming. Available at: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/toscano/boykoff.html
Shut Up, Shut Down by Mark Nowak, Labor History, Vol. 46. No. 3 (August 2005).
Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation by Robin Hahnel, Socialist Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 2005).
Silencing Political Dissent by Nancy Chang and Terrorism and the Constitution by David Cole and James X. Dempsey, XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics, No. 13 (Fall 2003).
Blue Gold by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke (with Kaia Sand). Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Vol. 14, No. 1 (March 2003).
Recent Media Appearances:
Alternative Radio with David Barsamian (27 March through 3 April 2008). On Martin Luther King Jr. & the FBI.
Progressive Radio with Matthew Rothschild (31 December 2007 through 6 January 2008). On the suppression of dissent in the United States.
Street Roots interview with Martha Gies (14 December 2007). On the media and dissent.
Pacifica Radio (KPFK and KPFA) (December 2007). On the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007.
Alternative Radio with David Barsamian (26 June through 2 July 2007). On the suppression of dissent in the United States.
Media Matters with Bob McChesney (NPR, WILL-520 AM) (21 January 2007). On the suppression of dissent and U.S. media coverage of global warming.
Rise Up Radio (CKCU-93.1 FM, Ottawa, Canada) (27 November 2006). On climate-change skeptics and the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Nairobi, Kenya.
Radio with a View (WMBR-88.1 FM, Boston) (16 April 2006). On the suppression of dissent in the United States.
The Thom Hartmann Program (Air America KPOJ-620 AM) (1 September 2005). On mass-media coverage of global warming and Hurricane Katrina.
Northwest Today (KNDU-TV, Kennewick, WA) (17 January 2005). On the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Counterspin, (nationally syndicated radio program) (24 December 2004). With Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Steve Rendall, and Peter Hart. On U.S. mass-media coverage of global warming. Audio available at: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2027
Living On Earth (National Public Radio) (10 September 2004). "Changing Views on Climate Change" with Steve Curwood. On U.S. mass-media coverage of global warming. Audio available at: http://www.loe.org/shows/shows.htm?programID=04-P13-00037
Talk of the Bay (NPR Monterey Bay affiliate KUSP 88.9 FM) (1 September 2004). Interview on with Rachel Ann Goodman, Max Boykoff, and Michael Loik. On U.S. mass-media coverage of global warming.
Extracurricular Activities:
Professor Boykoff is an avid supporter of poetry. His favorite poetry books are Interval by Kaia Sand, Sarajevo Blues by Semezdin Mehmedinovic, and Mi Revalueshanary Fren: Selected Poems by Linton Kwesi Johnson. He also writes poetry and is the author of Hegemonic Love Potion (Factory School, 2009) and Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge (2006, Edge Books, Washington, DC).
He is also an enthusiastic soccer fan who played soccer at the University of Portland. He also represented the U.S. Olympic Team (U-23 National Team) in international competition and played professional soccer for the Portland Pride, Minnesota Thunder, and Milwaukee Wave.