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Social Sciences Division
Politics Department
Ph.D. Student
Graduate
Teaching & Learning Center (TLC)
Merrill College
Luke Heslip is a Politics Ph.D. student at the University of California Santa Cruz interested in American political development, parties, and elections. He earned a B.A. and M.A. in Political Science at San Francisco State University, where he was the instructor of record for an American politics course for two years. Heslip teaches middle school social studies and speech and debate classes at SummrGATE San Francisco. Before academia, he worked in electoral politics and educational and environmental non-profits.
- American political development (APD)
- Parties
- Elections
- Political history
- Polarization
Graduate Teaching Assistant
- POLI/LGST 120A: Congress, President, & the Courts in American Politics
- POLI/LGST 120B: Society & Democracy in American Political Development
- 2025 UCSC Teaching and Learning Center Graduate Pedagogy Fellow
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