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Nancy Wadsworth , Assistant Professor |
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Nancy D. Wadsworth studies cultural and historical aspects of American politics, particularly social changes movements. Her current research focuses on the intersection of race and religion in American political culture. She is revising a book project entitled, Ambivalent Miracles: Evangelical Racial Reconciliation Efforts in American Political Culture. She is also editing a book volume about the intersection of race and religion with Professor Robin Jacobson of Bucknell University. As a member of the Joint Committee (DU/Iliff School of Theology), she serves in the Religion and Social Change concentration.
Nancy received her doctorate from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, concentrating on American politics and political theory. There she won the Hannah Arendt Memorial Award for the best dissertation in politics in 2001. She has a strong background in gender studies and feminist theory, having majored in Women’s Studies and Modern Society and Social Thought at the University of California at Santa Cruz as an undergraduate and continued work in gender at the graduate level.
Through a Mellon Post-Doctoral fellowship, she taught at Cornell University from 2001-03, and served as a Lecturer at DU from 2004 until 2007, when she became an Assistant Professor. At DU she teaches Foundations (Power & Justice), Core (Five Faces of Power), American Political Culture, American Political Thought, classical and contemporary theory, Religion in American Politics, Comparative Race Politics, and gender studies courses whenever she gets the opportunity.
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