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Valeria Sinclair-Chapman

Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science

E-mail: valeria.sinclair-chapman@rochester.edu
Office: 585.275.7252
Fax: 585.256.2594

Department Website:
http://www.rochester.edu/college/psc/people/faculty/sinclair.php

African-American and minority politics, political representation, voting rights and redistricting, legislative politics, and political participation. Research examines the substantive and symbolic representation of black interests in Congress as well as minority agenda-setting on the national level.

Co-author with William D. Anderson and Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier of "The Keys to Legislative Success in the U.S. House of Representatives," Legislative Studies Quarterly (2003). Also co-author of Countervailing Forces: Exploring the Macro-Dynamics of Black Political Participation in the Post-Civil Rights Era, with Fredrick C. Harris and Brian McKenzie, forthcoming at Cambridge University Press.

Teaches courses in American politics and African-American politics. Director of the Washington Semester Program, student adviser, core faculty member of the Center for the Study of African-American Politics, and associate member of the Frederick Douglass Institute and the Susan B. Anthony Institute.

Courses

AAS/PSC 194Q Rochester Politics and Places
AAS 108/PSC 105 Dilemmas in American Politics
AAS/PSC 225 Race and Political Representation

Frederick Douglass
Institute for African and
African-American Studies
Morey 302
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
585.275.7235
fdi@mail.rochester.edu