Sarita McCoy Gregory

Assistant Professor
Rockefeller Hall 408
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Sarita McCoy Gregory is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Vassar College.  She completed two years as a CSMP (Consortium for Strong Minority Presence) Post-Doctoral Fellow in the department of Political Science at Macalester College in Saint Paul, MN.  Sarita received her B.S. in Political Science with honors from Tuskegee University and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

She is currently working on a book entitled Improvising Politics:  Citizen Engagement in an Age of Democratic Disappointment, which proposes improvisation as a post-deliberative mechanism for democratic engagement and decision-making.  Using the cases of Hurricane Katrina in the U.S. and the 2005 suburban insurgency in Paris, she offers an interpretive analysis of ways that citizens engage politically when they perceive themselves to be socially isolated and abandoned.

She specializes in the study of race and American political thought, ideology in political theory, African American political thought, education and democratic theory.  Sarita's substantive research interests include the study of citizenship and transnational identities, African American political thought, and urban education policy reform.    Her interests also include urban community studies and qualitative research methods. 

She currently teaches Introduction to Political Theory; Race, Gender, and Class in American Political Thought; Black Political Thought; and Democratic Engagement.