Hampshire College

Robert Rakoff, professor of politics and environmental studies, received his B.A. from Oberlin College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington.

He taught at the University of Illinois/Chicago and worked for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development before coming to Hampshire in 1979.

His teaching and research interests include environmental history and policy; the politics of land use; the cultural construction of nature; creative non-fiction writing about the outdoors; and the political economy of farming and rural life in the U.S.

Affiliations
School of Critical Social Inquiry

Recent Courses
CSI-0271: The Contested American Countryside (Fall 2013)
CSI-0114: Politics of Health Insurance (Fall 2013)
CSI-0244: State and Citizen: The Politics of Social Welfare Policy (Spring 2013)
CSI-0255: Writing About the Outdoors (Spring 2013)