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Graduate Student Directory

Mark Richard Sean Howard
  • Title
    • Ph.D. Candidate
  • Division Social Sciences Division, Humanities Division
  • Department
    • Politics Department
    • History of Consciousness Department
  • Phone
    831-459-4450 (Message)
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Merrill College Academic Building, 6 and 9
  • Office Hours By appointment
  • Mail Stop Merrill/Crown Faculty Services

Summary of Expertise

Political Economy, Finance, Innovation, Political Theory, Philosophy, International Relations & Global Politics

Research Interests

Venture Capital, Finance, Innovation, Worlding, Justice, Critical Theory

Biography, Education and Training

 

M.A., Politics,

University of California Santa Cruz, California, USA, 2022.

 

M.Sc., International Relations Theory (with Distinction),

London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, 2016

Dissertation Title: International Security Dialectics: Contradiction and Paradox in an Era of Globalized Risk and Populist Nationalism

 

B.A., Philosophy,

Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 2013.

 

 

Honors, Awards and Grants

  • Institutional Failure as Global Leadership: A Case-Based Study of the Present (2022-23), University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) Research Grant ($1000)
  • National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanizing Technology Fellowship, The Humanities Institute (UCSC), 2022-2023 ($5000 + Teaching Appointment)

Selected Publications

• ’The Necropolice-Economy: Mapping Biopolitical Priorities and Human Expendability in the Time of COVID-19’, Societies 12(2). 2022. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc12010002

• ‘The Never-End of History: Finding Meaning in the World Historical Moment’, Caustic Frolic 4(1) (Fall 2020: New York).

Teaching Interests

Instructor / Lecturer

  • TBD - Ethics and Technology (Spring 2023)
  • CMMU 145 - Global Capitalism: A History of the Present (Fall 2022)
  • Crown Core (College 1) - Ethical and Societal Implications of Emerging Technologies (Fall 2021) 
  • POLI 17 - US and the World Economy (Summer 2021)
  • POLI 160D - International Political Economy (Summer 2020) 

Teaching Assistant

  • POLI 140D - The Politics of East Asia (planned - Winter 2021)
  • POLI / LGST 105C - Modern Political Thought (Spring 2020, Winter 2020)
  • POLI 17 - US and the World Economy (Spring 2019, Fall 2020)
  • POLI 160C - Security, Conflict, Violence, War (Winter 2019)
  • POLI / LGST 105A - Ancient Political Thought (Winter 2018, Fall 2019) • POLI 3 - Keywords: Political Concepts (Fall 2018)