J. Salvador Peralta

Professor
Department of Civic Engagement and Public Service University College

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J. Salvador Peralta

Dr. J. Salvador Peralta is a Professor of Political Science at the University of West Georgia. He teaches courses on American Politics, Comparative Politics, Democratic Theory, Research Methods, and Latin American Politics. His current research explores the evolution of environmental and social policies in the Caribbean; social investment policies, higher education politics, and the politics of poetry in Latin America.

His most recent publications have appeared in PS: Political Science and Politics; Politics & Policy; Underpinning Leadership: The Presidential Office in Latin America, US, and Spain from Tecnos; The Transnational Politics of Higher Education from Routledge; and an Interview with Claribel Alegría in the Birmingham Poetry Review.  

His experiences living through dictatorship, war, and emigrating to the U.S. have informed his scholarly and teaching interests and inspired him to develop a course on what it means to be free, for which he won a National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) grant.

 

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Summer 2020 Sections

  • POLS-2101 (Intro to Political Science) Section: E01
  • POLS-4604 (Democratic Theory) Section: E01

Fall 2019 Sections

  • POLS-1101 (American Government) Section: 10
  • POLS-2601 (Intro to Political Science Inq) Section: 01
  • POLS-3401 (Comparative Politics) Section: 01
  • POLS-4215 (Mgmt of Non-Profit Organizatns) Section: 50E

Summer 2019 Sections

  • ORGL-1100 (Leadership in a Global Society) Section: 01E
  • POLS-4984 (Senior Seminar) Section: N01

Spring 2019 Sections

  • POLS-1101 (American Government-Honors) Section: 25H
  • POLS-2601 (Political Science Methods I) Section: 01
  • POLS-4604 (Democratic Theory) Section: E01

Fall 2018 Sections

  • POLS-1101 (American Government) Section: 09
  • POLS-2601 (Political Science Methods I) Section: 01
  • POLS-3401 (Comparative Politics) Section: 01
  • POLS-4215 (Mgmt of Non-Profit Organizatns) Section: 51E

Summer 2018 Sections

  • POLS-4985 (Democratic Theory) Section: E02

Spring 2018 Sections

  • POLS-1101 (American Government) Section: 15
  • POLS-2601 (Political Science Methods I) Section: 01
  • POLS-4403 (Latin American Politics) Section: 01

Fall 2017 Sections

  • POLS-1101 (American Government) Section: LXI
  • POLS-1101 (American Government) Section: AB1
  • POLS-1101 (American Government) Section: 13
  • XIDS-2002 (WDYKA The Honors College) Section: 27H
  • POLS-2601 (Political Science Methods I) Section: 17
  • POLS-4186 (Internship in Government) Section: E03

Summer 2017 Sections

  • POLS-1101 (POLS 110 American Government) Section: 01D

Spring 2017 Sections

  • POLS-2601 (Political Science Methods I) Section: 01
  • POLS-4186 (Interniship :Data Analytics) Section: 81

Fall 2016 Sections

  • XIDS-2002 (WDYKA The Honors College-Honor) Section: 28H
  • POLS-4186 (Internship in Government) Section: 01

Summer 2016 Sections

  • POLS-4984 (Senior Seminar) Section: E01

Spring 2016 Sections

  • XIDS-2300 (What Does it Mean to be Free) Section: LXB
  • POLS-4186 (GA Assoc Lat Elect Off (GALEO)) Section: 04
  • POLS-4186 (GALEO Internship) Section: 05

Fall 2015 Sections

  • POLS-2601 (Political Science Methods I) Section: 01

Summer 2015 Sections

  • POLS-4984 (Senior Seminar) Section: E01

Spring 2015 Sections

  • XIDS-2300 (What does it mean to be free?) Section: 01
  • POLS-4984 (Senior Seminar) Section: N01

J. Salvador Peralta. 2022. “Chapter 14. The Politicization of Social Investment in Latin America.” In The World Politics of Social Investment. Julian Garritzmann, Silja Häusermann, and Bruno Palier, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [View Publication External Resource]

Anthony Fleming, Paul E. Rutledge, J. Salvador Peralta, and Vanessa Woodward Griffin. 2022. "The Gun Stops Here: Firearm Policy and Presidential Issue Framing." Midsouth Political Science Review. 22: 71-96. [View Publication External Resource]

Juana de Ibarbourou. 2022. "Selected Poems." Translated by J. Salvador Peralta. Birmingham Poetry Review. 49. [View Publication External Resource]

Maggiano, Corey M., Christine D. White, Richard A. Stern, J. Salvador Peralta, and Fred J. Longsraffe. 2019. "Focus: Oxygen isotope microanalysis across incremental layers of human bone: Exploring archaeological reconstruction of short term mobility and se [View Publication External Resource]

J. Salvador Peralta. 2018. “¡Aquí mando yo! Presidencia, liderazgo presidencial y formulación de políticas públicas en el Perú durante los gobiernos de Alan García.” In Centros de Gobierno. América Latina... Jorge Lanzaro, ed. Madrid: Tecnos.

J. Salvador Peralta. 2017. “Latin America University Rankings 2017: an unwelcomed advance in Chile.” Times Higher Education: London. [View Publication External Resource]

J. Salvador Peralta and Gregory Fraser. 2017. “An Interview with Claribel Alegría.” Birmingham Poetry Review 44. [View Publication External Resource]

Fleming, Anthony, Paul Rutledge, Gregory Dixon, and J. Salvador Peralta. 2016. “When the Smoke Clears: Focusing Events, Issue Definition, Strategic Framing, and the Politics of Gun Control.” Social Science Quarterly, 97(5): 1144-1152. DOI: 10.1111/ssqu [View Publication External Resource]

J. Salvador Peralta, and Thiago Pezzuto. 2016. “We Come In Peace”: Ideology and Higher Education Policymaking in Latin America. In The International Politics of Higher Education. Meng-Hsuan Chou, Isaac Kamola, and Tamson Pietsch, eds. London: Routledge [View Publication External Resource]

J. Salvador Peralta, and Thiago Pezzuto Pacheco. 2014. “Resisting Progress: The New Left and Higher Education in Latin America.” PS: Political Science and Politics 47(3): 620-623. doi:10.1017/S1049096514000742 [View Publication External Resource]

J. Salvador Peralta. 2013. “Do Culture and Institutions Matter? Explaining the Sources of Cross-National Regime Support.” Politics & Policy 41(4): 479-508. [View Publication External Resource]

J. Salvador Peralta, and G. Richard Larkin. 2011. “Counting Those Who Count: The Impact of Latino Population Growth on Redistricting in Southern States.” PS: Political Science & Politics 44(3): 552-561. [View Publication External Resource]