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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear UCR Community,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">It is with heavy hearts that Interim-Dean McMullin and the Department of Economics share the sad news that Professor Stephen E. Cullenberg passed away at his home in Massachusetts
from complications of progressive supranuclear palsy on 2/28/2021. Steve was 67 years old.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Steve came to UCR as an Assistant Professor of Economics in 1988. He served as Chair of Economics
(1997-98, 1999-03), Chair of Physical Education (2001-03), and Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (2006-14). He retired from UCR in 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Steve was a Marxist economist with broad and multi-disciplinary research interests. He described his research fields as “Economic Methodology,
International Political Economy, and Marxian Political Economy” (</span><a href="https://profiles.ucr.edu/api/CvAttachment/72740"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CV</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">),
but the many conferences that he organized and the numerous books that he wrote and edited reveal a much broader agenda. Among others, Steve co-edited
<i>Whither Marxism? Global Crises in International Perspective </i>(Routledge, 1994);
<i>Marxism in the Postmodern Age: Confronting the New World Order</i> (Guilford, 1994);
<i>Postmodernism, Economics and Knowledge</i> (Routledge, 2001); <i>Globalization, Culture and the Limits of the Market: Essays in Economics and Philosophy</i> (Oxford University Press, 2003);
<i>Human Development in the Era of Globalization: Essays in Honor of Keith B. Griffin</i> (Edward<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Elgar, 2006); and
<i>Sublime Economy: The Aesthetics of Economic and Cultural Value</i> (Routledge, 2006). He also authored
<i>The falling rate of profit: Recasting the Marxian debate</i> (1994), and co-authored
<i>Transition and Development in India </i>(Routledge, 2013). Steve was proud of having served as Editor of the journal
<i>Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture and Society</i> in the years 1997-99, and having been an editorial board member for many years. His research interests led him to become a Cooperating Faculty Member in the Department of Philosophy and
a member of the Center for Ideas and Society Advisory Committee since the mid-1990s.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">As a reflection of his scholarly breadth, Steve taught over two dozen different courses. At the graduate level his courses spanned Mathematics
for Economics; Alternative Microeconomic Theory; History of Economic Theory and Methodology; Marxian Political Economy; and (Re)Valuing Marx (in the English Department at UCR). At the undergraduate level, in addition to numerous standard economics courses,
he taught Poverty, Justice and Discrimination;</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SymbolMT">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The 1960s and the Vietnam War Era (a year-long interdisciplinary course); and Freshman Seminars on Globalization and Its Discontents, and The Economics of Sports. One faculty member recalls
that Steve was not one to bring detailed notes to his lectures. He was often seen jotting down a few thoughts on a post-it prior to walking across campus to teach undergraduate economics courses. Steve was a highly valued and effective teacher, having been
honored with UCR’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1998. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Steve was an institution builder, and dedicated his life to making UCR a better, more inclusive and welcoming place. He was instrumental in creating
the modern economics department at UCR that resulted from the merger of faculty in CHASS and the Graduate School of Management. He also played a critical role in helping to build and strengthen the humanities and arts inside of CHASS. As a former Associate
Dean </span><a href="https://forcullenberg.wordpress.com/remembrances/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">recalls</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">: “He joined in and materialized
the efforts at UCR to embrace the new multi-cultural, interdisciplinary path, embracing California’s diversity and – simultaneously – the multiple voices of subaltern and excluded people, scholars, and visions that Riverside could – with the right leadership
– affirm. And he was that leader.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Steve was also an avid sports fan, and was proud of having played on his high school basketball team. For many years he had season tickets to the UCR women’s basketball
games, and he was a lifelong fan of the Boston Celtics, Red Sox, and New England Patriots.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Whenever one needed to track Steve down, the surest approach was to show up at Jammin’ Bread for breakfast, or Ciao Bella or Mario's Place for dinner. He was a fixture
in those places, and loved by so many. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">An obituary written by his family can be read
</span><a href="https://www.ccgfuneralhome.com/obit/stephen-cullenberg"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">here</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, and many deeply moving memories written
by friends and colleagues can be found </span><a href="https://forcullenberg.wordpress.com/remembrances/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">here</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.
Donations in Steve’s memory can be made to the Stephen E. Cullenberg Scholarship in the Arts through the University of California Riverside Foundation or to the University of California Riverside Women’s Basketball Team. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Steve will forever be remembered by his colleagues and students, and the staff, in Economics and CHASS at UCR.
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