Corey Cook
Professor of Politics
Professional Overview
Corey Cook is a Professor of Politics at Saint Mary’s College. Cook regularly teaches classes on environmental politics and policy, urban politics and policy, data analysis and visualization, and American politics. At Saint Mary's he has taught a January Term class “Bay Area Social Justice Movements: Identity and Place-Based Activism.”
His research focuses on electoral reform, particularly alternative voting systems, California politics and policy, political geography, and political representation. He has published academic articles in the California Journal of Politics and Policy, American Politics Research, DuBois Journal of Social Science Research on Race, and Presidential Studies Quarterly in addition to multiple book chapters.
Education
Cook holds bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of California Berkeley and master’s and doctoral degrees in Political Science and Public Policy from the University of Wisconsin Madison.