Betty Zisk Professor Office: PLS 311B Phone: 617.353.4214 E-mail: zisk@bu.edu Education: B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Haverford College; Ph.D., Stanford University Areas of Specialization: American Politics, Political Communications, Interest Group Behavior, Political Movements.

Professor Zisk is the author of six books -- most recently The Politics of Transformation: Local Activism in the Peace and Environmental Movements (1992) -- and numerous articles on interest groups, political movements, and third parties. She is currently at work on an investigation of the contribution of folk singers, radical theater, and political photographers to the transformation of American politics. In her courses, she emphasizes fieldwork and participant observation approaches to the study of interest groups and political movements. She has a particular interest -- both as a scholar and as a political activist -- in the environmental and peace movements.

Professor Zisk teaches only in the Fall semester and offers the following courses:
Informal Political Processes (PO 512)
Political Movements in the United States (PO 625)

Curriculum Vitae