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Faculty
William T. Bluhm
Nora Bredes
Kevin Clarke
Alexandre Debs
Richard Dees
John Duggan
Richard Fenno
Mark Fey
Edward Fiandach
Gerald Gamm
Hein Goemans
Ewa Hauser
Gretchen Helmke
Thomas Jackson
Bruce Jacobs
James Johnson
Stuart Jordan
Tasos Kalandrakis
Mark Kayser
Bonnie Meguid
Richard Niemi
Michael Peress
Charles Phelps
G. Bingham Powell
Lynda Powell
David Primo
Peter Regenstreif
Lawrence Rothenberg
Joel Seligman
Curtis Signorino
Valeria Sinclair-Chapman
Randall Stone
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Valeria Sinclair-Chapman
Assistant Professor of Political Science
vsan@mail.rochester.edu
Harkness Hall 316
585-275-7252
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| PhD, Ohio State, 2002. 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 (Cambridge University Press, 2006). 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. |
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Courses:
| PSC 105 |
Introduction to American Politics |
| PSC 194 |
Rochester Politics and Places |
| PSC 216 |
Legislative Politics |
| PSC 224 |
African-American Politics |
| PSC 225 |
Race and Political Representation |
| PSC 525 |
Race and Political Representation |
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