MARY ALICE HADDAD

 

Mary Alice Haddad received her B.A. in international studies from Amherst College in 1995, and she completed her M.A. (1998) and Ph.D. (2003) in political science at the University of Washington in Seattle.  She spent the 2003-2004 academic year at Harvard University as a Harvard Academy Scholar.  Her primary area of research is comparative civil society with a focus on Japan.  She is working on a manuscript entitled “Performing Their Civic Duty: Volunteer Participation in the US and Japan in Comparative Perspective,” which examines how citizen attitudes about governmental and individual responsibility for dealing with social problems as well as the practices of governmental and societal institutions influence patterns of volunteer participation around the world.  She has teaching interests in comparative politics, Japanese and East Asian politics, civil society, and state-society relations.

In addition to her professional interests, she loves most kinds of outdoor activities, many different sports, ceramics, and has just embarked on a project to make her pre-Civil-War house livable.

 

 

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