Faculty
Scott Martin
Part-Time Faculty, International Affairs
Ph.D., Columbia University
Scott B. Martin (Ph.D., Columbia University) has
taught in the International Affairs program since 2005 as well as in the School
of International and Public Affairs at
Columbia University since 1998. Prof. Martin has also been a Lecturer of
Political Science and Latin American Studies at Princeton University and a
full-time Visiting Lecturer at Yale University and Sarah Lawrence College. He
holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University (2001), where he
also served for two years as Assistant Director of the Institute of Latin
American Studies. He is the author of
numerous articles and book chapters, such as most recently “New Directions in
Public Policy and State-Society Relations,” in Mauricio Font and Laura Randall,
eds., The
Brazilian State: Debate and Agenda (Lanham and New York: Lexington Books, 2011), with Glauco Arbix, and “’Models’ of Mining
Corporate Social Reponsibility and the Local Political Cycle: The Case of Alcoa in Juruti (Pará),”
forthcoming in Portuguese with João Paulo Veiga. He is also co-editor and contributor to The New Politics of Inequality in Latin
America (Oxford, 1997), Competividade
e Desenvolvimento: Atores e Instituições Locais (São Paulo, SENAC, 2001),
and Business and Industry (Marshall
Cavendish, 2003). His areas of research and teaching specialization are
comparative and transnational labor politics, comparative social policy,
corporate social responsibility in transnational corporations, politics/policy
of socio-economic development, and Latin American political economy. He
regularly consults on international development, labor, and business issues, in
particularly for the Economist Intelligence Unit, where he is lead Latin
America researcher for annual EIU scorecards of the business environment for
microfinance and for venture capital and private equity, respectively.
Courses Taught
Corporations, Justice and Rights
