Leading expert and author on Venezuelan politics Dr. George Ciccariello-Maher is available to assist the news media with requests regarding the upcoming presidential election on Sunday, April 14.
Ciccariello-Maher is an assistant professor of political science at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
His new book on Venezuela, We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution, was released in April 2013 from Duke University Press. The book is a theory-rich “people’s history” of contemporary Venezuela which locates the origins of current political dynamics in the long-term history of Venezuelan social movements, demonstrating that Hugo Chávez is not the cause, but rather the result, of a broader and more fundamental transformative process.
Ciccariello-Maher joined Drexel University in 2010. He previously taught political theory at U.C. Berkeley, San Quentin State Prison and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas. Ciccariello-Maher earned a doctoral degree in political science from UC Berkeley. He received a master’s degree in social and political sciences through the Davies-Jackson Fellowship Program at Cambridge University, and a bachelor of arts with honors, in government and economics from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York.
Ciccariello-Maher is a frequent contributor to Counterpunch, MRZine, Znet, Alternet and VenezuelaAnalysis.com, and has been a media commentator for such outlets as The New York Times, Al Jazeera, NPR, the Los Angeles Times and the Christian Science Monitor. He is the author of numerous journal articles, book chapters and reviews.
**** Ciccariello-Maher is available to travel or to be interviewed via email, phone, Skype or from the VideoLink satellite studio in Philadelphia *****
To coordinate an interview, please contact Alex McKechnie at [email protected] or 401-651-7550.
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