Hey below are some of the courses that Dr. Boykoff teaches.

Fall 2014

POLS 140 | Introduction to U.S. Politics

POLS 352 | Politics and Sports

Spring 2015

POLS 301 | Politics and the Media

POLS 399 | Theory and Methodology in Political Science

Other courses he teaches:

POLS 221 | Politics in Literature and Film

POLS 224 | Environmental Politics

POLS 226 | Politics of Surveillance

POLS 321 | Protest, Dissent, and Social Change

POLS 322 | The Suppression of Dissent

Areas of Research & Specialization

Professor Boykoff teaches courses and carries out research on U.S. politics, the politics of sports, mass-media politics, social movements, the suppression of dissent, and environmental politics.

Qualification

PhD in Political Science, American University, Washington, D.C., in 2004

Master of Arts in Teaching with specialization in English and Spanish, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Ore., in 1998

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, University of Portland, Portland, Ore., in 1993

Books

Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London (Rutgers University Press, 2014)

Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games (Routledge, 2013)

Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry & Public Space, co-authored with Kaia Sand (Palm Press, 2008)

Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States (AK Press, 2007)

The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch US American Social Movements (Routledge, 2006)

Selected Scholarly Publications

“Gender and Politics at the 2012 Olympics: Media Coverage and its Implications,” (with Matthew Yasuoka) Sport in Society, forthcoming

“London’s Shadow Legacies: Security and Activism at the 2012 Olympics,” (with Pete Fussey) Contemporary Social Science, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2014): 253-270

“Celebration Capitalism and the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics,” Olympika: The International Journal of Olympic Studies Vol. 22 (2013): 39-70

“Poets as Experimental Geographers: Mark Nowak, Kaia Sand and the Re-composition of Political-Historical Space,” in Placing Poetry, eds. Zöe Skoulding and Ian Davidson (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2013), 223-256

"U.S. Media Coverage of the Cancún Climate Change Conference," PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 45, No. 2 (April 2012): 251-258

"The Tea Party Movement, Framing, and the U.S. Media," (with Eulalie Laschever) Social Movement Studies, Vol. 10, No. 4 (November 2011): 341-366

"The Leaf Blower, Capitalism, and the Atomization of Everyday Life," Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 22, No. 3 (September 2011): 95-113