Robert Ovetzis a lecturer in Political Science at SJSU and taught at College of Marin for a decade.
He has a Ph.D. in political sociology from the University of Texas-Austin. He does research and writes about class conflict and public policy and the adjunctification of academic labor in the community colleges.
He worked as a legislative aide for two members of the Texas legislature, executive director of the NGO Seaflow, and has worked as a policy advocate for other non-government organizations on debt, development, human rights and ocean conservation issues in The Netherlands and the US.
In 2006, Robert led an international campaign that successfully lobbied the United Nations Law of the Seas Convention to implement the first global protections for endangered marine species from industrial fishing enshrined in international law.
His writings have been published in the academic, mainstream and alternative media as well as by the United Nations. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Labor and Society.
He is a lecturer in political science at San José State University and De Anza College. Robert’s first book When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1924 was published by Brill (The Netherlands) in August 2018. He is currently assembling his second book.
Robert lives in Marin County, California, USA, loves to ride his bike, bake, listen to loud music, and cheer at his daughter’s basketball games.
