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Harry Targ
Professor, Department of Political Science; American Studies Steering Committee
Ph.D., Northwestern University
M.A., University of Illinois
B.S., University of Illinois
Office Phone: (765) 494-4169
Email: targ@purdue.edu
Specialization: American Politics; American Labor; International Relations.
Professor Targ has teaching and research interests in U.S. and international political economy, U.S. foreign policy, organized labor and class struggle, plant closings and unemployment, and U.S. foreign policy in Central America. He has authored International Relations in a World of Imperialism and Class Struggle; Strategy of an Empire in Decline: Cold War II; and co-authored Plant Closings: International Context and Social Costs. His book, Cuba and the United States: A New World Order? was published in 1992. A co-edited volume, Marxism Today, was published in 1996. Also, he has co-authored children's books on Guatemala and Honduras. He has published articles in such journals as The Journal of Peace Research, Polity, Sociology of Education, Peace and Change, The International Studies Quarterly, and Alternatives. He is a co-founder of the Labor Studies Research Group and the Lafayette Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), and is a former president of the American Federation of Teachers at Purdue. He has recently become co-editor of Dialogue and Initiative, a theoretical journal of the Committees of Correspondence.