Faculty
Naomi
Murakawa
Office: Gowen 133
(206) 543-9228
murakawa@u.washington.edu
Naomi Murakawa (Ph.D., Yale University, 2005) is Assistant Professor
of Political Science at the University of Washington. She specializes
in American politics with an emphasis on racial and gender politics,
public policy, and American political development. She is currently
completing a manuscript entitled "Electing to Punish: Congress,
Race, and the American Criminal Justice State," which investigates
the development of America’s racially distinctive punishment expansion.
Professor Murakawa teaches courses on American racial formation,
feminist politics, and the politics of crime and punishment.
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