Evelyne Huber, Morehead Alumni Professor of Political Science, and Chair of the Department, studied at the University of Zurich and received both her M.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1977) from Yale University . Her interests are in comparative politics and political economy, with an area focus mainly on Latin America and the Caribbean , but also on broader comparisons between Latin America and Europe . She teaches Latin American/Caribbean politics and comparative politics at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. She is the author of The Politics of Workers' Participation: The Peruvian Approach in Comparative Perspective (1980), co-author of Democratic Socialism in Jamaica (with John D. Stephens, 1986); co-author of Capitalist Development and Democracy (with Dietrich Rueschemeyer and John D. Stephens, 1992), co-author of Development and Crisis of the Welfare State (with John D. Stephens, 2001); co-winner of the Outstanding Book Award 1991-92 from the American Sociological Association, Political Sociology Section, and winner of the Best Book Award 2001 from the American Political Science Association, Political Economy Section. She has also contributed articles to, among others, World Politics, Latin American Research Review , Comparative Politics , Politics and Society , Comparative Political Studies , Studies in Comparative International Development , Comparative Social Research , Political Power and Social Theory , American Journal of Sociology , American Sociological Review , and Economic Perspectives . She is currently doing research on comparative social policy.