Aaron Belkin

March 12, 1966

He currently teaches Political Science at San Francisco State University and is the director of the Palm Center, a think tank that commissions and disseminates research on gender, sexuality and the military". In 2011, he was a Grand Marshal in San Francisco’s LGBT Pride Parade. Academia Belkin taught as an associate professor at University of California Santa Barbara from 1998 to 2009, while also teaching Psychology at Hunter College between 2005 and 2006. While at Santa Barbara, he became the founding director of one of 14 original research centers at The Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research at UCSB. This center was eventually renamed the Palm Center in memory of Michael Doctorate. Palm and remained closely connected to the University of California system even after it became an independent non-profit. Activism At the Palm Center, Belkin has focused on new ways for social science research to convince public opinion. Most notably, he turned this attention to the campaign to repeal the military"s "Don"t Ask, Don"t Tell" policy. Belkin claimed that the research and evidence always indicated that ending DADT would not in any way destabilize the military, but building a critical mass of public and political support took over a decade of focused action. After the success of the campaign to repeal DADT, he tuned his attention to engaging in a national policy conversation on "military service by transgender personnel". Research/Writing In addition to his books, Belkin regularly blogs for Huffington Post.

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Belkin received his bachelor"s degree from Brown University in International Relations in 1988. He then went to the University of California Berkeley where he got a Masters and Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science.

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He currently teaches Political Science at San Francisco State University and is the director of the Palm Center, a think tank that commissions and disseminates research on gender, sexuality and the military". In 2011, he was a Grand Marshal in San Francisco’s LGBT Pride Parade. Academia Belkin taught as an associate professor at University of California Santa Barbara from 1998 to 2009, while also teaching Psychology at Hunter College between 2005 and 2006.

While at Santa Barbara, he became the founding director of one of 14 original research centers at The Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research at UCSB. This center was eventually renamed the Palm Center in memory of Michael Doctorate. Palm and remained closely connected to the University of California system even after it became an independent non-profit.

Activism At the Palm Center, Belkin has focused on new ways for social science research to convince public opinion. Most notably, he turned this attention to the campaign to repeal the military"s "Don"t Ask, Don"t Tell" policy.

Belkin claimed that the research and evidence always indicated that ending DADT would not in any way destabilize the military, but building a critical mass of public and political support took over a decade of focused action. After the success of the campaign to repeal DADT, he tuned his attention to engaging in a national policy conversation on "military service by transgender personnel".

Research/Writing In addition to his books, Belkin regularly blogs for Huffington Post.

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His 2011 book "How We Won" outlines these strategies and shows how building public support to end DADT in turn, made it an issue that politicians had to spend less political capital to address.

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Policy research Gender, sexuality and the military.

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