Alan J. Wyner
Dean, Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1967

e-mail: wyner@polsci.ucsb.edu

Fields of Interest: California Government and Politics, Public Policy and Administration, Environmental Politics

Alan J. Wyner is Dean of Undergraduate Studies for the College of Letters and Science. Dean Wyner's research interests include natural hazards policy, the implementation of public policy in the environmental resource area, and the political role of water in California. He has also conducted extensive research on the introduction of the Ombudsman institution to the American political system and on the consequences of legislative reform in California.