ANDREA Y. SIMPSON University of Richmond Department of Political Science Weinstein Hall, Room 202F Richmond, VA 23179 Education Ph.D., Political Science, Emory University, December 1994 M.A., Public Administration, University of Virginia, 1989 B.A., Communication Arts, Rhodes College, 1976 Employment Associate Professor, University of Richmond July 2004 to Present Associate Professor, University of Washington, September 2001-June 2004 Seattle Washington Assistant Professor, University of Washington, September 1994-August 2001 Seattle, Washington Acting Assistant Professor, University of Washington, September 1993-August 1994 Seattle, Washington Awards Best Paper of 2002, American Political Science Association, Section on Ecological and Transformational Politics, presented at the Annual Meeting of the APSA in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Recipient of Best Book on Racial Identity" award from the Race and Ethnicity Section of the American Political Science Association, presented at the Annual Meeting of the APSA in Atlanta, Georgia, September 1999 for The Tie that Binds, New York University Press, 1998. Departmental Nominee, Distinguished Teacher Award, University of Washington, Spring, 2000 1998 Professor of the Year, Alpha Phi Sorority, University of Washington Grants and Fellowships Recipient, Weinstein Fellows Program, in collaboration with Professors Kevin Kuswa and Paul Achter of the Rhetoric and Communications Department at the University of Richmond for a research project to be completed in partnership with undergraduates entitled The Politics of Race, Space, and Place. Recipient, Curriculum Transformation Project Grant for Multiple Identities and Political Activism: A Series on the Role of Women in Social Justice Movements, a proposed series of courses designed for the Law, Societies, and Justice Program of the Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, 2003 Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Memphis, Center for Research on Women, 2001-2002 University of California, Berkeley Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Academic Diversity, 1996-97 Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States Research Grant, 1995 Boeing Endowment for Excellence Award, 1993, 1994 The Carolina Minority Postdoctoral Scholars Fellowship, 1993, declined 1
Ted Robinson Memorial Award, Southwestern Political Science Association, 1993 National Science Foundation Minority Travel Grant, 1992 Marsha Mashaw Award in Public Administration, University of Virginia, 1990 Bradley Foundation Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1988-89 Commonwealth Graduate Fellowship Program Recipient, Council of Higher Education, Commonwealth of Virginia, 1988-89 Research/Publications Books The Tie that Binds: Identity and Political Attitudes in the Post-Civil Rights Generation. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Articles Majority Spaces and Black Folks Places: Institutional Responses to Racism and the Role of the Ombuds. The Journal, California Caucus of College and University Ombuds. November 1999, 2:1, 43-53. Book Chapters Going It Alone: Black Women Activists and Black Organizational Quiescence in The State of the Discipline: An African-American Perspective, forthcoming from Temple University Press. Halting, Heroic, Hopeful: Today and Tomorrow in the Environmental Justice Movement in Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles, edited by David E. Camacho, forthcoming from Durham: Duke University Press. Who Hears Their Cry? The Fight for Environmental Justice in Memphis, Tennessee in The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy, edited by Joni Adamson, Mei Mei Evans, Kamala Platt, and Rachel Stein, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. Book Reviews Black Multiracial Politics, forthcoming, National Political Science Review. Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class, by Mary Pattillo-McCoy, Urban Affairs Quarterly, 36:5, 734. Shadowboxing, by Joy James, Signs 27:4. Unpublished Works New Wine in Old Wineskins: The Need for Transformative Leadership in the Environmental Justice Movement, presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American PoliticalScience Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Public Hazard, Personal Peril: The Impact of Non-Governmental Organizations in Environmental Justice Claims, presented at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts 2
In Shadowed Spaces: African-American Women in the Environmental Justice Movement, presented at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association Long Beach, California. Creating Coalitions in Academic Communities, presented at Beyond Diversity: People of Color in Predominantly-White Institutions, a conference sponsored by the Spencer Foundation and held at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, October 2001. Linked and Fettered: Women in the Environmental Justice Movement, presented at the Center for the Study of Africa-American Politics, University of Rochester, May 2001. Who Hears Their Cry? The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Memphis, Tennessee, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, October, 2000. Memphis Blues: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Memphis, Tennessee, presented at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Washington, D.C. Taking Over or Taking a Back Seat? African-American Women and Political Participation, presented at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia. White Colleges and Black Students: Institutional Responses to Racism, presented at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. "Identity and Integration in the Post Civil Rights Generation," presented at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois. "Identity and Political Attitudes Among Young African Americans: A Case Study of Young Black Republicans and Black Nationalism," presented at the 1996 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, California. "In Search of African-American Conservatives: A Study of Middle-Class Political Attitudes," presented at the 1994 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York, New York. "Political Attitudes of African-American Elites: A Study of Contrasts," presented at the 1994 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Works in Progress Controlling Women: Race, Class, Gender, and Political Activism, book manuscript, forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Invited Presentations: Who Hears Their Cry? African-American Women in the Environmental Justice Movement, presented at Ecological Conversations: Gender, Science, and the Sacred, a conference sponsored by the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, May 2002. 3
Intersectionality and Grassroots Activism in the Environmental Justice Movement, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2002. Spectres and Shadows: Media Images of African-American Women in Politics, presented at the Center for Women and Democracy workshop on Women, Elections, and Public Office in Washington State and Beyond, University of Washington, April 14, 2000. The Sapphire Syndrome: Media Images of African-American Women in Politics, presented at Emory University, Department of Political Science, March 31, 2000. Taking Over or Taking a Back Seat? African-American Women and Political Participation, presented as part of the Benjamin Hooks Lecture Series, Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities and the Benjamin Hooks Research Institute, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, March 3, 2000. Guest Lecturer, American Political Science Association s Ralph Bunche Summer Institute, University of Virginia, July 1, 1999. Visiting Scholar, Arizona State University West, College of Human Services, Phoenix, Arizona, February 25-27, 1999. Lectured on the nature of identity and political attitudes to the university community and administrators in the City of Phoenix. Guest Lecturer, University of Washington Law School in a course entitled Critical Perspectives on the Law. Professor Louis E. Wolcher, lecturer. Fall 1998 Teaching Fields: Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Political Communication, Politics and Criminal Justice Undergraduate Courses: Introduction to American Politics; African-American Political and Social Thought; The Politics of Race in the United States; Critical Race Theory; Women in Politics; Money, Politics, and Prisons; Women and Social Movements. Graduate Courses: Public Opinion and Voting Behavior; Blacks and the Electoral Process; Qualitative Methods Graduate Student Committees: Rose Ernst, Department of Political Science, Ph.D. Committee Chair Carrie Doan, Department of Political Science, Ph.D. Committee Member Norma Rodriguez, Department of Political Science, Ph.D. Committee Chair Lisa Miller, Department of Political Science, Ph.D. Committee Member Stephanie Martin, Department of Political Science, M.A. Committee Member Cheryl C. Cooke, Department of Nursing, Ph.D. Committee Member Kris Freeman, Department of Communications, M.A., Committee Member James Sellers, Department of Political Science, M.A. Committee Member Professional Activities Panel Member, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2005. Participant, Roundtable on the Perestroika Movement in Political Science, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March, 2004. 4
Chair and Participant, Roundtable on Professional Development, 2001 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Long Beach, California. Participant, Roundtable on Engaging Multiple Publics: Environmental Justice Politics, Poetics, Pedagogy, and Activism, Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, November 2001. Chair and Discussant, Roundtable on Race in Comparative Perspective: Discussions on the 1999 Ralph J. Bunche Award-Winning Books on Ethnic and Cultural Pluralism, 2000 Annual Political Science Association Meeting, Washington, D.C. Chair, panel on Race, Racism and the Media, the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Seattle, Washington. Chair and Discussant, panel on Black Participation and Representation, the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia. Discussant, panel on Affirmative Action: U.S. and International Perspectives, the 1998 Annual Political Science Association Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts. Chair and Discussant, panel on Identity and Ideology Issues, the 1997 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Tucson, Arizona. Chair and Discussant, panel on Congressional Elections and Realignment Politics, the 1996 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, California. Service to the Profession: Discipline Chair, Bunche Awards Committee, 2005, American Political Science Association Member, Publications Committee, American Political Science Association, 2003-2005 Member, Executive Committee, Western Political Science Association, 2001-2004 Member, Editorial Board, Political Research Quarterly Reviewer, National Science Foundation Reviewer, American Political Science Review Co-Program Chair, 2004 Annual Meeting of National Conference of Black Political Scientists Organizer, Mini-Conference on Women of Color in Politics, Study and Research, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, August, 2002. Gender and Politics Section Chair, 2002, 2003 Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists Co-President, Race and Ethnicity Section, 2001-2003, American Political Science Association Member, Committee on the Status of Blacks, Western Political Science Association Reviewer, Women in Politics, June 2000 Book Awards Committee, 1999, 2000, 2001, National Conference of Black Political Scientists Race and Ethnicity Section Chair, 1999 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association 5
Race and Ethnicity Section Chair, 1997 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association Reviewer, Journal of Politics Reviewer, Urban Affairs Review Reviewer National Science Foundation Proposal, March 1996 University and Community Recruitment and Retention Committee, University of Richmond, 2004-2005 Cigna Scholars Ad-Hoc Committee, University of Richmond, 2004-2005 Steering Committee, Center for Civic Engagement, University of Richmond, 2004-2005 Guest Lecturer, Annual Black History Month Luncheon, Cigna Scholars of the University of Richmond, 2005 Guest Speaker, WILL Brown Bag Luncheon, University of Richmond, 2005 Workshop Facilitator, Large Class Collegium Workshop, at Pack Forest, sponsored by the University of Washington Teaching Academy, April, 2004 Member, University of Washington Diversity Council, 2001-2003 Workshop Facilitator, Teaching in Diverse Classrooms, Faculty Fellows Program, University of Washington, September 2003 Workshop Facilitator, Teaching in Diverse Classrooms, Institute for Teaching Excellence, University of Washington Teaching Academy, June 2002 Workshop Designer and Facilitator, Creating Community in the Classroom, Institute for Teaching Excellence, sponsored by the University of Washington Teaching Academy June 2001 Speaker, Race in the 21 st Century, A Conversation, a symposium sponsored by the Center for Multicultural Education, University of Washington, May 2000 Facilitator, Workshop on Establishing Authority in the Classroom, Large Class Retreat at Pack Forest, sponsored by the University of Washington Teaching Academy, April, 1999 Lecturer, Honor Student Invitational, sponsored by the Office of Admissions, University of Washington, Summer, 1999 Guest Lecturer, Last Lecture Series, sponsored by the Student Activities and Union Facilities, University of Washington, April 30, 1998 Guest Speaker, Mary Mahoney Professional Nurses Association Annual Luncheon, March 1998 (The oldest African-American women's organization in Seattle, Washington) Guest Speaker, University of Washington Orientation for new students, Summer 1996. 6
Guest Lecturer, Visiting International Students from Japan sponsored by the Continuing Education Division, University of Washington, Spring 1996. Guest Speaker, Seattle Chapter of U.S. West Women Annual Luncheon, February, 1995 Workshop Facilitator, Annual Meeting of Washington Alliance of Black School Educators, March 1994, Bellevue, Washington Department (University of Richmond) Course Crosslisting Guidelines Committee Department (University of Washington) Development Committee, 1999, 2000; 2002-2003 Undergraduate Committee, 1993-1995; 1999-2001 Colloquium Coordinator, 1993-1995 Executive Committee, 1997-98 Honors Program, 1996, 1998 Professional Associations American Political Science Association, 1990-Present Western Political Science Association, 1993-Present American Studies Association, 2000-Present Updated 7/05 7