Peter Kolozi is Professor of Political Science in the Social Sciences Department.  He is also the co-coordinator of the Political Science Option. He has worked at BCC since 2004. He earned his PhD in Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has a number of publications. Among the most recent is an OER American politics textbook entitled The Political Imagination: An Introduction to American Government.  Kolozi’s scholarly interests include American politics, American conservatism, political economy, theories of the state, social movements, American political thought, and labor unions.

Education:
PhD, Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center
MA, Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center
B.A., Political Science and History, William Patterson University

Recent Courses Taught:
POL 11 American National Government
POL 31 Comparative Government
POL 41 Civil Rights in America Since 1954
POL 81: Independent Study and Internships in Government

Selected Publications:
Peter Kolozi and Jawied Nawabi, “Afghanistan: The Making and Unmaking of a Modern State.” Journal of Global South Studies (Spring 2022).

Peter Kolozi and James E. Freeman, The Political Imagination: Introduction to American Government.  CUNY Manifold (2021)
https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/the-political-imagination

Peter Kolozi and James E. Freeman, “Martin Luther King Jr. and America’s Fourth Revolution: The Poor People’s Campaign at Fifty,” American Studies Journal 64 (January 2018).

Peter Kolozi, Conservatives Against Capitalism:  From the Industrial Revolution to Globalization (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017).

Peter Kolozi, “An Alternative Tradition in Conservative Political Economy,” Alex Zamalin and Jonathan Keller, eds. American Political Thought: An Alternative View, Routledge Press, 2017), 143-156.

Peter Kolozi and James E. Freeman, “Remembering Martin Luther King’s Last, Most Radical Book,” New Politics 16.2 (Winter 2017), 77-86.

Peter Kolozi and James E. Freeman, “Between a Rock and a Hard Place:  Public Sector Unions and the Triborough Amendment in the Neoliberal Era,” Thought & Action (August, 2016), 109-120.

Peter Kolozi and James E. Freeman, “Bernie Sanders’ Political Revolution: Think National, Act Local,” Counterpunch.org (April 19, 2016).

Peter Kolozi and James E. Freeman, “Poisoning the Well: Demagoguery vs. Democracy,” Logos: A Journal of Society and Culture (Summer 2016).