Barry Schutz

Barry Schutz' interest in radio broadcasting dates back to his undergraduate modern jazz radio program at Indiana University's WBIU in Bloomington, in the 1950s. Most of his career has focused on teaching and research in political science and international relations with an emphasis on African politics. Barry received a Ph.D in Political Science from UCLA and has taught at universities in the US, England, Canada, Zimbabwe, and in Mozambique where he was a Fulbright Professor. Barry Schutz then spent 22 years in Washington, D.C where he was an academic, a U.S. Government policy and intelligence analyst and an Adjunct Professor in the National Security Affairs Program at Georgetown University. After serving as an Africa analyst at the State Department, he retired in 2003, and moved back West to Alameda. Since then, he has been affiliated with Stanford University's Center for African Studies as a research scholar as well as the Mills College Department of Government. Through Alameda Community Radio, Barry hopes to be the vehicle for the return of jazz radio to Alameda in the tradition of Alameda's late, great KJAZ.