Aaron Belkin

Associate Professor

Contact Info:
Office: HSS 132
Office Hours: MW 11:15-12:15
Phone: 415-338-1019
Email: belkin[at]sfsu[dot].edu

Professor Belkin specializes in military masculinity and sexuality in the armed forces, and his newest book is Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and the Benign Facade of American Empire, 1899-2012 (Columbia University Press, 2012). He has two dozen peer-reviewed journal articles, chapters, and books, including Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics (Princeton University Press,1996, co-edited with Philip Tetlock).

Prior to his arrival at SFSU, he was associate professor of political
science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, associate
professor of psychology at CUNY Hunter, visiting member of the
political science faculty at Stanford University, MacArthur Foundation
postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, and pre-doctoral fellow at the
Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford.

Professor Belkin is founder and Director of the Palm Center
(http://www.palmcenter.org). In that capacity, he has devoted
considerable attention to the question of research translation, in
other words how to use social science to engage with public,
non-academic audiences. His research has been covered widely by the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, NPR, CNN and national network news. His e-book summarizing lessons he learned during the campaign to repeal the military's gay ban is How We Won: Progressive Lessons from the Repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' (Huffington Post Media Group, 2011). For more, please visit
http://aaronbelkin.org or http://howwewon.com.