Erica Townsend-Bell
Research Fields:
Comparative Politics
Contact Information
Email: erica-townsend-bell@uiowa.edu
Phone: 319-335-3835
Office: 311 SH
Fall 2009 Office Hours:
Tuesday and Thursday 2:00-3:30 PM, and by appointment.
Faculty Profile
Erica Townsend-Bell
Assistant Professor
Ph.D.: Washington University in Saint Louis, 2007.
Fields: Comparative Politics (Latin American politics, and women and politics, with a specific focus on the politics of race, class, and gender).
Sample Publications: "Identities Matter: Identity Politics, Coalition Possibilities, and Feminist Organizing," WU Dissertation, which focused on identity construction and coalition possibilities as mitigated by race and class among Uruguayan women’s groups; currently working on a book manuscript, tentatively titled The Politics of Intersectionality which focuses on the creation of raced, gendered and classed identities in Uruguay and Costa Rica, their evolution into formal black women’s organizations, and how an intersectional identity might be put into practice in the contemporary post-welfare, post-liberal state.
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