Dr. Michael Musheno
Professor and Advisor
Office: HSS 333
Phone: (415) 602-1239
Fax: (415) 405-0771
Email: mmusheno@sfsu.edu
Research
Michael Musheno focuses on law, conflict and the state. He draws upon narratives, particularly the storytelling of subjects and agents of the state, and uses interpretive field methods. Michael’s book, Cops, Teachers, Counselors: Stories from the Front Lines of Public Service (University of Michigan Press, 2004) co-authored with Professor Steven Maynard-Moody of the University of Kansas, is the winner of the American Political Science Association’s 2005 Herbert A. Simon Book Award and winner of the 2006 Best Book of Public Administration Research from the American Society of Public Administration. His book, Deployed: How Reservists Bear the Burden of Iraq (University of Michigan Press, 2009 (paperback edition; 2008 hardcover) co-authored with Susan Ross of Lycoming College, focuses on the life histories of one of the first military police reserve companies deployed after 9.11, including a year running a prison near Baghdad. His current book project, Making it Work: Youth Conflict and Control in a Multiethnic Suburban High School (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming), co-authored with Calvin Morrill of University of California at Berkeley, focuses on the capacities of youth to handle conflict on their own terms and how adult interventions, particularly the Safe Schools Movement, interrupt the strategies youth employ successfully to get along with one another in a complex public school environment.
