Dara Z. Strolovitch | Department of African American Studies

Associate Professor

Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies

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Dara Z. Strolovitch is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, where she also teaches in American Studies and African American Studies. Prior to joining the faculty at Princeton, she was Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Her research explores the intersecting politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality in a polity marked by enduring, overlapping, and structural inequalities. Her book, Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics addressed these issues by examining the extent to which and the ways in which advocates for women, people of colour, and low-income people represent intersectionally marginalized subgroups of their constituencies. Affirmative Advocacy was awarded the APSA’s Gladys Kammerer Award for the best book on U.S. national policy, APSA’s Political Organizations and Parties section's Leon Epstein Award, the American Sociological Association's Race, Gender, and Class section's Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, and the Association for Research on Nonprofits and Voluntary Action’s Virginia Hodgkinson Prize. Her current book project, When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People, examines the political construction of crises and their implications for marginalized groups. She is a Founding Associate Editor of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity Politics and currently serves on the editorial boards of Perspectives on Politics, Politics, Groups, & Identities, the Journal of Interest Groups & Advocacy, and Politics & Gender. Her work has received grant and fellowship support from sources including the Brookings Institution, Georgetown University, the American Political Science Association, the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Aspen Institute, the Irving Louis Horwoitz Foundation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She received her B.A. in Political Science (with a minor in Women’s Studies) from Vassar College and her Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University.

Books and Edited Collections

CQ Guide to Interest Groups and Lobbying, Co-edited with Burdett Loomis and Peter Francia (CQ Press, Washington, DC, 2011)

"Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics". University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Articles

“An Anti-Respectability Revolution? Constitutive Representation, Online Advocacy, and the Shifting Boundaries of Intersectional Marginalization.” With Chaya Crowder. PS: Political Science & Politics (Forthcoming)

“Naming Rites for Naming Wrongs: What We Talk about When We Talk About Woodrow Wilson.” With Chaya Crowder. Perspectives on Politics (Forthcoming).

"The Gender of Party Politics." With Elizabeth Sharrow, Michael Heaney, and Seth Masket. Journal of Women, Politics & Policy (Forthcoming).

“Of Mancessions and Hecoveries: Race, Gender, and the Political Construction of Economic Crisis and Recovery.” Perspectives on Politics 11(2013):167-76.

“Polarized Networks: The Organizational Affiliations of National Party Convention Delegates.” With Michael T. Heaney, Seth Masket, and Joanne Miller. American Behavioral Scientist 56 (2012): 1654-76.

“Intersectionality in Time: Sexuality and the Shifting Boundaries of Intersectional Marginalization.” Politics & Gender 8 (2012): 386-96.

“Do Interest Groups Represent the Disadvantaged? Advocacy at the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender.” Journal of Politics 68 (2006): 893-908.

“New Orleans is not the Exception.” With Paul Frymer and Dorian Warren. 2006. Du Bois Review 3 (2006): 37-57.

“Measuring Gay Population Density and the Incidence of Anti-Gay Hate Crime.” With Donald P. Green, Robert Bailey, Dara Z. Strolovitch, and Janelle S. Wong. Social Science Quarterly 82 (2001): 281-96.

“Defended Neighborhoods, Integration, and Racially Motivated Crime.” With Donald P. Green, and Janelle S. Wong. American Journal of Sociology 104 (1998): 372-403.

“Playing Favorites: Public Attitudes toward Race- and Gender-Targeted Anti-discrimination Policy.” National Women’s Studies Association Journal 10 (1998):27-53.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

“Interest Groups and American Political Development.” With Daniel Tichenor. In Robert Lieberman, Suzanne Mettler, and Richard Valelly, eds., Oxford Handbook of American Political Development (New York: Oxford University Press, Forthcoming)

“The Missing Women of The Wire.” With Naomi Murakawa. In Shirin Deylami and Jonathon Havercroft, eds., The Politics of HBO’s The Wire: Everything Is Connected (NY: Routledge, 2015).

“What the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street Illuminate about Bystander Publics as Proto-Players.” With Hahrie Han. In Jan Duyvendak and James Jasper, eds. Players and Arenas (Amsterdam University Press, 2015).

“Advocacy in Hard Times.” In Nonprofits and Advocacy. Steven Smith, Yutaka Tsujinaka, & Robert Pekkanen, eds. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2014).

“Inequality and Interest Group Representation.” In Matthew Grossman, ed., New Directions in Interest Group Politics (New York: Routledge, 2013).

“Gender and Civil Society Organizations.” With Erica Townsend-Bell. InWeldon, Laurel, Georgina Waylen, Karen Celis and Johanna Kantola, eds., Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).