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Stephen R. Brooks Adjunct Professor Professor, University of Windsor 401 Sunset Ave, Windsor (519) 253-3000 brooks3@uwindsor.ca Research Interests: Canadian Politics American Government & Politics

Professor Brooks teaches Canadian Politics at the University of Michigan’s Dearborn campus and regularly teaches a Foreign Perspectives on American Politics course in Ann Arbor, most recently in the American Culture program.  His research interests are in the tradition of Seymour Martin Lipset’s comparative work on Canada-U.S. similarities and differences.  Brooks’s most recent books include Canadian Democracy, 5^th edition (2007), As Others See Us:  The Causes and Consequences of Foreign Perceptions of America (2006), and Freedom, Equality, Community:  The Political Philosophy of Six Influential Canadians (2006), with Alain Gagnon and James Bickerton.

During the 2007-2208 academic year, Professor Brooks is serving as the Chair of Canadian Studies at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Selected Publications

• America Through Foreign Eyes: Classic Interpretations of American Political Life (Oxford University Press, 2002)
  
• The Challenge of Cultural Pluralism: Essays in Honor of Kenneth D. McRae, editor (Praeger, 2002)
  
• Canadian Democracy, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2007)
  
• Six penseurs en quete de liberte, d'egalite et de communaute: Grant, Innis, Laurendeau, Rioux, Taylor et Trudeau (Quebec: Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, 2003)