 | Khalilah Brown-Dean |
Khalilah Brown-Dean, newly designated as the Peter Strauss Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and African American Studies, specializes in American politics, mass political behavior, criminal justice and political psychology.
Brown-Dean studies the political dynamics surrounding the American criminal justice system. Her book manuscript "Once Convicted, Forever Doomed: Felon Disenfranchisement Laws and American Political Inequality" explores the political impact of those laws on communities of color. She recently completed a second book manuscript on the "Voting Rights Act of 1965" and this year chaired a Yale conference on the 40th anniversary of that legislation.
She has been an adviser and political analyst for such media outlets as CNN and The Wall Street Journal, as well as governmental and community organizations. Brown-Dean is part of the development team for "The Covenant with Black America Action Manual," which aims to promote discussions about the black experience and civic engagement. Together with Yale faculty members Donald Green and Cynthia Farrar, she received a $100,000 research grant from the Ford Foundation's "Difficult Dialogues" initiative to promote campus discussion on such flashpoint issues as race relations, religion and political views.
Brown-Dean came to Yale in 2003, having earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia (1998) and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University (2003). In 2005, she was awarded Yale's Arthur Greer Memorial Prize for Outstanding Research and a Junior Faculty Fellowship. She has also received several teaching awards, including one from the American Political Science Association.
A native of Lynchburg, Virginia, the Yale scholar was recognized for her work by that city's mayor, who proclaimed May 6, 2006, as "Dr. Khalilah L. Brown-Dean Day."
Among her numerous civic involvements, Brown-Dean is a founding member of the Unity '04 Voter Empowerment Campaign, and a member of the Greater New Haven Branch of the NAACP and The Educational Advancement Foundation. She sits on the board of the OneWorld Progressive Institute and has held leadership positions in such professional organizations such as the American Political Science Association, the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and the International Society of Political Psychology.
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Brown-Dean is appointed Peter
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