Lecturer
Department(s): International & Area Studies | Political Economy
101 Stephens Hall
Phone: 510-642-4466
Email: rashcroft@berkeley.edu
Office Hours: Online only
About
Richard Ashcroft is a Lecturer in UC Berkeley’s Department of Political Science and Interdisciplinary Social Science Programs, and the Postdoctoral Coordinator for the Network for a New Political Economy. Before completing his PhD in Political Science at Berkeley he studied human rights and racticed as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. His research and teaching explore how modern societies should evolve in the face of deepening diversity and disagreement, with a particular focus on the connections between postwar multiculturalism, political economy, and the legacies of empire. He has edited two books with Mark Bevir: “Multiculturalism in the British Commonwealth: Comparative Perspectives on Theory and Practice (University of California Press, 2019), and “Multiculturalism in Contemporary Britain: Policy, Law and Theory” (Routledge, 2019). Richard has also published a series of articles on British multiculturalism, Scottish independence, and Brexit, and is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled “Rethinking Liberal Multiculturalism: Culture, Meaning, and Pluralism.” Whilst at Berkeley he has taught American Politics, Political US and UK,” “The Crisis of European Integration,” “Multiculturalism in Theory and Practice,” and “What is Political Economy?”
Theory, Political Economy, and Global Studies, and at the moment is teaching / developing courses on “National Identity and Political Economy in the