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Valeria Sinclair-Chapman
Director of the Center for Study of African-American Politics and Assistant Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
Areas of expertise: African-American and minority politics, political representation, voting rights and redistricting, legislative politics, and political participation
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Valeria Sinclair-Chapman Homepage
In the News
(January 25, 2009)
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Obama's fame gives him grace period
R News Cable Rochester
Local reaction to inauguration
Fox Business
VIDEO: Historic Breakthrough
News Releases
(November 08, 2007)
Rochester Professor Wins National Political Science Book Award
Biography
Valeria Sinclair-Chapman can speak on the representation of black interests in Congress as well as minority agenda-setting on the national level. Sinclair-Chapman is the coauthor 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)