Dear Staff, Scholars, and Researchers,

Please join me in welcoming Visiting Scholar Dara Strolovitch for her seminar entitled, “When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, & the Political Construction of Crisis & Non-Crisis.” The talk will be held in the library this Wednesday, March 7th, at 11 AM.

Dara Z. Strolovitch is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. Her research explores the intersecting politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality in a polity marked by enduring, overlapping, and structural inequalities. Her book, Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics addressed these issues by examining the extent to which and the ways in which advocates for women, people of color, and low-income people represent intersectionally marginalized subgroups of their constituencies. Her current book project, When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People, examines the political construction of crises and their implications for marginalized groups. She is a Founding Associate Editor of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity Politics and currently serves on the editorial boards of Perspectives on Politics, Politics, Groups, & Identities, the Journal of Interest Groups & Advocacy, and Politics & Gender. Her work has received grant and fellowship support from sources including the Brookings Institution, Georgetown University, the American Political Science Association, the National Science Foundation, the Aspen Institute, the Irving Louis Horwoitz Foundation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She received her B.A. in Political Science (with a minor in Women’s Studies) from Vassar College and her Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University.

I hope everyone is looking forward—as I am—to what will no doubt be an interesting and productive discussion.