Frank Hirtz

Associate Professor

and Master Advisor

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Bielefeld, 1990
LL.M., University of Bielefeld, 1979
M.A., Sociology, University of Bielefeld 1976

E-mail: fwhirtz@ucdavis.edu

Research Interests:

Anthropology / Sociology of Law, Minority Administration

Methods of Social Research, Field Research, Evaluation Research, Applied Research, Action Research, Participatory Research and Ethics of Research

(Comparative) Social Policy, Social Welfare, and Community Studies

Social Theory, Social History and History of Social Theory

Sociology of Development, Rural Sociology

Geographical specialization: Western Europe (Germany, Portugal); Southeast Asia (Philippines); Southern Africa (Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa)

Courses Taught:

Social Theory and Community Change (CRD 154)

Theories in Organizational Change (CRD 164)

Community Development: Program Management (CRD 242)

Recent Publications:

Hirtz, Frank. 1998. "The Discourse That Silences: Beneficiaries' Ambivalence Towards Redistributive Land Reform in the Philippines." Development and Change 29(2):247-75.

Hirtz, Frank. (1995). Managing insecurity : state social policy and family networks in the rural Philippines / Frank Hirtz. Saarbrucken : Verlag fur Entwicklungspolitik Breitenbach.

Related Links:

http://communitydevelopment.ucdavis.edu