Dianne Pinderhughes
(B.A. Albertus Magnus College M.A.; Ph.D. University of Chicago) President’s Distinguished Professor and Full Professor in the Departments of Africana Studies. Before Notre Dame, she taught at Dartmouth College, and the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Her teaching focuses on racial and ethnic politics in the US, Voting Rights policy and American urban politics. Pinderhughes’s research addresses issues of inequality with a focus on racial and ethnic politics and public policy, explores the creation of American civil society institutions in the twentieth century, and analyzes their influence on the formation of voting rights policy. Her publications include her book, Race and Ethnicity in Chicago Politics A Reexamination of Pluralist Theory. Pinderhughes also examines the intersection of race and gender in American electoral representation, in a current study, the Gender and Multicultural Leadership Project. Pinderhughes is currently President of the American Political Science Association (2007-2008).
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Office: 441 Decio Hall
Email: Pinderhughes.1@nd.edu
Phone: (574) 631-3676
Mailing Address:
217 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556