Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, The George Washington University
My research has focused on the politics of social provision in the US and Western Europe. I first became interested in this topic as a graduate student at Princeton University where coursework in American social policy, the comparative politics of the welfare state, and European history opened my eyes to the startling differences in how wealthy nations provide for the care and well-being of their...
Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park
Coming of age in the midst of anti-war demonstrations, grape boycotts, and women's consciousness-raising groups sparked my interest in reform movements. Seeking to understand how progressive social change happened, I entered the doctoral program in U.S. history at Northwestern University in 1982 and soon began working as a precinct captain in Chicago Mayor Harold Washington's Democratic Party. M...
Secretary of Education, 2001-2005
Dr. Paige has had an extensive career in education, as a teacher, coach, and administrator. He graduated from Jackson State University in Mississippi and later earned both a master's and a doctoral degree from Indiana University. He served for a decade as dean of the College of Education at Texas Southern University. In 1994 , Dr. Paige became superintendent of the Houston Independent School Dist...
Professor of History, University of North Carolina
I was born in the segregated South, and I grew up with race as a fact of life. I was a first-year law student when I first encountered the notion that race was a social construction. Fascinated by this idea, I abandoned law school and enrolled in graduate school in history. A chance encounter with a state historic site, the early nineteenth-century house of a Cherokee planter in Georgia, revealed...
Understanding Government, American University
ExperienceFounding editor in chief of The Washington Monthly, former director of evaluation, U.S. Peace Corps
Professor of Political Science, Professor of Afro-American Studies and Research, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
I was born in Washington, D.C. in 1947, the elder daughter of Rosa T. and D. James Pinderhughes, Jr. My mother and her mother were also born in Washington, while my father was born in East Providence, RI. My father, the first born Pinderhughes, fought in WWII and worked in the Post Office. My mother was first a housewife and later a teacher's aide in the Washington, D.C. schools. In Washington, D....
Associate Professor, Department of History, State University of New York at Buffalo
As a graduate student in history at Columbia University, my primary focus was 20th century U.S. urban history. I came into that field partly out of a love for cities, but also because I wanted to understand how Americans have made decisions about building social infrastructure—both in terms of design and levels of funding. In essence, I wondered why in the U.S. it was so hard to do coherent...
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
This project engages my interests as a scholar of reproductive politics and as a citizen of the United States who has watched our prison population swell to the largest in the world. My first book examined the ways that institutions such as corporations, hospitals, courts, and legislatures undermine women's equality by creating rights for fetuses. Here, I shift my attention to reproductive con...
My research has focused on the politics of social provision in the US and Western Europe. I first became interested in this topic as a graduate student at Princeton University where coursework in American social policy, the comparative politics of the welfare state, and European history opened my eyes to the startling differences in how wealthy nations provide for the care and well-being of their...
Coming of age in the midst of anti-war demonstrations, grape boycotts, and women's consciousness-raising groups sparked my interest in reform movements. Seeking to understand how progressive social change happened, I entered the doctoral program in U.S. history at Northwestern University in 1982 and soon began working as a precinct captain in Chicago Mayor Harold Washington's Democratic Party. M...
I was born in the segregated South, and I grew up with race as a fact of life. I was a first-year law student when I first encountered the notion that race was a social construction. Fascinated by this idea, I abandoned law school and enrolled in graduate school in history. A chance encounter with a state historic site, the early nineteenth-century house of a Cherokee planter in Georgia, revealed...
ExperienceFounding editor in chief of The Washington Monthly, former director of evaluation, U.S. Peace Corps
I was born in Washington, D.C. in 1947, the elder daughter of Rosa T. and D. James Pinderhughes, Jr. My mother and her mother were also born in Washington, while my father was born in East Providence, RI. My father, the first born Pinderhughes, fought in WWII and worked in the Post Office. My mother was first a housewife and later a teacher's aide in the Washington, D.C. schools. In Washington, D....
As a graduate student in history at Columbia University, my primary focus was 20th century U.S. urban history. I came into that field partly out of a love for cities, but also because I wanted to understand how Americans have made decisions about building social infrastructure—both in terms of design and levels of funding. In essence, I wondered why in the U.S. it was so hard to do coherent...
This project engages my interests as a scholar of reproductive politics and as a citizen of the United States who has watched our prison population swell to the largest in the world. My first book examined the ways that institutions such as corporations, hospitals, courts, and legislatures undermine women's equality by creating rights for fetuses. Here, I shift my attention to reproductive con...