Hahn, Harlan D.
Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University
Specialization: American Politics, Urban Politics, Disability Policy
Phone: (213) 740-8122
Fax: (213) 740-8893
VKC 112
harlanh@usc.edu
College Faculty Website

Biograhy:
Harlan D. Hahn is a Professor of Political Science. He is the foremost authority in the field of Disability Policy and is also a specialist in American Politics and Urban Politics. Dr. Hahn received his doctorate from Harvard University and has been a faculty member at USC since 1972.

Among his books are: Disabled Persons and Earthquake Hazards (co-authored), Referendum Voting: Social Status and Policy Preferences (co-authored), Readings in Urban Politics: Past, Present, and Future (co-authored), and Corruption in the American Political System (co-authored). He has written numerous articles on the subject of Disability Politics and has testified before many agencies on this field.

Recent Publications and Works in Progress:

Harlan Hahn, Urban America and its Police: From the Postcolonial Era through the 1960s (Boulder, Colorado: The University Press of Colorado, 2003), 176 pp. (co-authored with Judson Lance Jefferies).

Harlan Hahn, “Adjudication or Empowerment: Contrasting Experiences with ah Social Model of Disability,” in Len Barton, ed., Disability, Politics and the Struggle for Change (London: David Fulton Publishers, 2001), pp. 59-78.

Harlan Hahn and Richard Beaulaurie, “Attitudes toward Disability: Research Not on Activists with Disabilities.” Journal of Disability Policy Studies, vol. 12, no. I (2001), pp. 40-46.

Angela Pool Hegamin and Harlan Hahn, “Assessing Scientific Measures of Disability,” Journal of Disability Policy Studies, vol. 12, no.2 (2001), pp. 114-121.

Margaret G. Stineman, Susan M. Miller, Harlan Hahn, and Steven A. Stiens, “Communication Strategies for Rehabilitation Professionals: Disability Etiquette and Empowerment,” in Steven A. Steins, et. al., eds., Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (St. Louis: Mosby Co., 2001), pp. 53-63.