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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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