Fordham Professor Christina Greer, UW Professor Megan Francis
The Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race (WISIR) in conjunction with the Department of Political Science's DEMOCRACY DISCUSSIONS series welcomes award winning scholar and NPR co-host Professor Christina Greer to the stage with UW Professor Megan Francis for a discussion on race, gender and democracy in the context of the elections. Come join the conversation!
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Christina Greer is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University. Her research and teaching focus on American politics, Black politics, campaigns and elections, and public opinion. She is the author of Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream and co-editor of Black Politics in Transition: Immigration, Suburbanization, and Gentrification. Greer writes a weekly column for The Amsterdam News, and is a frequent political commentator on several media outlets. She is a co-host of the New York centered podcast, FAQ-NYC, and a co-host of a NPR podcast, In The Thick. Her forthcoming book, How to Build a Democracy: From Fannie Lou Hamer and Barbara Jordan to Stacey Abrams, will be published by Cambridge University Press this fall. She received her B.A. from Tufts University and her M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.
Moderator Bio:
Dr. Megan Ming Francis is the Delsman Associate Professor of Political Science and an Associate Professor of Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington. She specializes in the study of American politics, with broad interests in Black political activism, constitutional law, critical philanthropy, and the post-civil war South and is the author of the award-winning book, Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State. Dr. Francis was a former research fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute at the NAACP-LDF and serves on the Board at the Marguerite Casey Foundation. She is a proud alumnus of Seattle Public Schools, Rice University in Houston, and Princeton University where she received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics.