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Office: 146 Humphrey Center
Phone: 612-625-3409
E-mail: kenne030@umn.edu
Areas of expertise: women, law, and public policy; judicial selection; women and electoral politics; feminist organizations; the European Union; employment discrimination; women judges
Sally J. Kenney, Professor, directs the Center on Women and Public Policy. Kenney joined the Humphrey Institute faculty in 1995 after holding joint appointments in Political Science, Women's Studies, and Law at the University of Iowa.
Her research interests include gender and judging, judicial selection, feminist social movements, the European Court of Justice, exclusionary employment policies, and pregnancy discrimination. She served as a consultant to the US Congress's House Education and Labor Committee on discrimination resulting from fetal protection policies.
She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University, a B.A. and M.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Magdalen College, Oxford, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Iowa.
She is the author of For Whose Protection? Reproductive Hazards and Exclusionary Policies in the United States and Britain, and is the co-editor of Politics and Feminist Standpoint Theories and Constitutional Dialogues in Comparative Perspective. Her work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Law and Social Inquiry, Political Research Quarterly, Journal of Politics, Women and Politics, and Judicature as well as in law reviews. She is currently at work on a book entitled Gender and Judging.
She teaches "The Politics of Public Affairs, the political science component of the core,"Survey of Women, Law, and Public Policy in the U.S." "Case Studies on Women and Public Policy," and seminars on "Feminist Organizations" and "Women and Electoral Politics." She advises students concentrating their studies in women and public policy.
Courses taught for the Humphrey Institute
For syllabi for the current semester, view the University of Minnesota's Course Guide. For syllabi for public affairs classes for Fall 2007 or earlier, view the Humphrey Institute's course syllabi web page.
Syllabi includes current and previous academic years only. Syllabi are available in alternative formats. Please send requests to the Humphrey Institute Student Support Services.
Spring 2008
PA 5012-3 - Politics of Public Affairs
Fall 2007
5601-1 - Survey of Women, Law, and Public Policy in the United States
Spring 2007
PA 5122-1 - Law and Public Affairs
Fall 2006
PA 5690-1 - Case Studies
PA 5690-2 - Board Service and WPP
PA 8687-1 - Women and Electoral Politics
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