Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

The Race, Ethnicity and Gender field explores core political constructs such as governance, policy making, participation, conflict, and attitudes through the lens of race, ethnicity, and gender. The goal is to provide students with the necessary theoretical and methodological foundations needed to understand and analyze racial, ethnic, and gender politics in the U. S. and across the world.

Faculty: Ted Hopf, Bill Liddle, Harwood McClerking, Corinne McConnaughy, Tom Nelson, Nick Nelson, Irfan Nooruddin, Ismail White

Required Courses:

1. PS 707.01 (Seminar in Race and Ethnicity) or PS707.02 (Topics in Race and Ethnicity).
2. PS 712 (Gender and American Politics).

Other elective courses that are regularly offered include:

1. PS 608 (Ethnic Politics in American Cities)
2. PS 614 (Urban Politics)
3. PS636 (Southeast Asian Politics)
4. PS 737 (Identity Politics)
5. PS 739 (South Asian Politics).

Students may also take courses offered in the Departments of Sociology, Psychology, African-American and American Studies, and Women’s Studies.