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Specialization:
Political Philosophy; Democratic Theory, especially Identity Formation within Democratic Practices; Gender Studies; Chicana/Latina Feminist Thought; Social Change; Bias Mitigation; Democratization of Science Governance
Education:
Ph.D.: Harvard University
M.A.: Harvard University
M.A.: Cambridge University
B.A.: Pomona College
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Areas of study
- Political Philosophy & Social Theory
- Identity Formation & Intersectionality
- Chicana/Latina Feminist Thought
- Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, especially U.S. Latina/o Politics
- Gender Studies
Publications:
Deliberative Democracy Now: LGBT Equality and the Emergence of Large-Scale Deliberative Systems, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Wealth of Selves: Multiple Identities, Mestiza Consciousness, and the Subject of Politics. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2008.
“Mestiza Autonomy as Relational Autonomy: Ambivalence and the Social Character of Free Will.” Journal of Political Philosophy 15, no. 1 (2007): 1-21. Reprinted In Feminist Theory: A Philosophical Anthology, 2nd Edition, edited by Ann E. Cudd and Robin Andreasen, New York, Wiley Publishers (2024).
“Mapping Public Ambivalence in Public Engagement with Science: Implications for Democratizing the Governance of Fracking Technologies in the USA”, Journal of Environmental Sciences and Studies, Vol. 5, no. 4 (2015): 497-507.
“Unconscious Bias in the Suppressive Policing of Black and Latino Men and Boys: Neuroscience, Borderlands Theory, and the Policymaking Quest for Just Policing.” Politics Groups and Identities, Vol. 2, no, 2 (2014): 260-283.
“Intersectionality” The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, M. Gibbons, ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, (2014).
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Courses Taught:
- FEMST 250DD
- CH ST 1B
- FEMST 180, 181