Strom C. Thacker

Strom Cronan Thacker is an American political scientist and academic administrator. He took office as the seventh president of Pitzer College in July 2023.^{[needs update][1]} As a scholar, his work focuses on the political economy of development in Latin America and other regions of the world.^[1]

Strom C. Thacker
7th President of Pitzer College
Incumbent
Assumed office July 1, 2023
Preceded by	Melvin L. Oliver Jill A. Klein (interim)
Academic background
Alma mater	Pomona College (BA) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, (MA, PhD)
Thesis	From silent to active partner: Big business, the state and free trade in Mexico (1996)
Doctoral advisor	Timothy McKeown
Academic work
Discipline	Political science
Institutions	Boston University Union College

Books

• Big Business, the State, and Free Trade: Constructing Coalitions in Mexico. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. ISBN 9780521781688.^[2]
• With Gerring, John (2008). A Centripetal Theory of Democratic Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511756054.^[3][4]