Steven Tauber, Ph.D.
Affiliated Scholar
Dr. Steven Tauber is a Professor of Political Science in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida. He was the chair of the Department of Government & International Affairs from 2012 through 2016, and he was the founding Director of the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, serving from 2016 through 2019. He has published numerous journal articles and chapters in edited volumes on a variety of topics in political science, but his research mainly focuses on the politics of animal advocacy. His book Navigating the Jungle: Law, Politics, and the Animal Advocacy Movement (Routledge 2016) investigates the political constraints facing animal activists’ use of the judiciary to achieve justice for animals. His award-winning coauthored (with Paula McClain, Duke University) book American Government in Black and White (Oxford University Press, 7th edition, 2025) examines the essentials of American government through the lens of race and ethnicity. He is currently studying the importance of nonhuman animals in global politics.