Assistant Professor Colin Moore
Background
I grew up in a small town at the northern tip of California’s Central
Valley where the fast-food nation meets the great American wilderness.
After finishing high school, I left California to attend college and
graduate school in Philadelphia and Boston. I received my Ph.D. from
Harvard University in 2009, where my dissertation, “Institutions of
Empire,” won the American Political Science Association’s Burnham
Award for the best dissertation in politics and history. Prior to
joining the faculty at UH-Mānoa, I was a Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation Scholar in Heath Policy Research at the University of
California, Berkeley.
Research Interests
My scholarship focuses on American political development, public
bureaucracies, health policy, and the theoretical and historical
analysis of institutional change. I am currently completing a book
manuscript on the acquisition and governance of American overseas
colonies after the Spanish-American War. Along with this ongoing work
on American imperialism, I have started a new project on the politics
and development of the veterans' health care system.
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