Matthew Carlson


(2005) Assistant Professor
Old Mill Room 509
(802) 656-4365

Matthew.Carlson@uvm.edu
 

B.A., University of Puget Sound; M.A., University of Washington; Ph.D., University of California, Davis. .

Professor Carlson specializes in comparative politics and Asian politics with an emphasis on political participation, political parties, electoral systems, public opinion and international political economy. His Masters, from the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington is in International Studies. For his dissertation research, he was awarded a two-year scholarship from the Japanese government to study the political consequences of Japan's new electoral system at the University of Tokyo. He has been a lecturer at the University of California, Davis and a research associate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. In addition to Japanese, he speaks Mandarin Chinese and lived in Taiwan for two years.