| Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on Race, Gender, and Public Policy
Office: 209 Humphrey Center
Phone: 612-624-8345
E-mail: fenne049@umn.edu
Vera Fennell received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago writing on Maoist women's policy. Her Master's thesis was on the ERA and the Rehnquist Court and her undergraduate senior thesis from Princeton was on the women's liberation movement in China.
Working with Human Rights Watch's China division, she developed her interest in the role of the state in transnational culture and identity. She is working on a book on the concept of blackness the Communist Part of China deployed in the 1950s and 1960s.
Since 2001, she has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Colorado College and has taught a wide variety of courses from "Race in America," to "The Women's Liberation Movement in China," to "Minority Politics," to "African-American Thought."
At the University of Minnesota, she will teach a graduate seminar called "The International Politics of Race and Gender: Afro-Asian Connections" in the spring of 2008, looking at critiques of feminism from both Chinese and African-American feminists.
Courses taught for the Humphrey Institute
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Spring 2008
The International Politics of Race and Gender: Afro-Asian Connections
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