Harwood McClerking
Office: 2004 Derby Hall
154 N. Oval Mall
Columbus, Ohio 43210
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email: mcclerking.1@osu.edu
Harwood McClerking
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Professor McClerking has research interests in group politics, group
identity and heuristics, and race and representation in the U.S. Congress. His dissertation is entitled
We Are in This Together: The Origins and Maintenance of Black Common Fate Perceptions. This work
deals with the theory and empirical measurement of common fate perception (i.e. perceptions of
group interdependence) in African Americans. He is completing a book manuscript, with the working title
A Common Fate: Group Identification in Black Americans, that probes the issue of how groups maintain
identification among individual members of a group through political means. He has an article in the May 2004 Journal of Politics on the effect of Black racial composition and media attention on the representation of Black substantive policy issues in Congress. His next projects are on group consciousness, concentrating on developing comprehensive theories about group identities and consciousness over time. During the 2004-2005 academic year Prof. McClerking is serving on a post-doctoral fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program at the University of Michigan.
Selected Publications:
2004. "Congressional Representation of Black Interests: Recognizing the Importance of Stability" Journal of Poltics 66(2):450-68.
2001. "Looking for 'Threats' in all the Wrong Places: a critigue of the current use of race as a contextual effect in political science." Politics & Policy 29:637-49.
My Curriculum Vita is currently being updated.
