Juliet Hooker,
University of Texas at Austin
Juliet Hooker is Associate Professor of Government and of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a political theorist whose primary research interests include comparative political theory and critical race theory, particularly black political thought, Latin American political thought, political solidarity, and multiculturalism; she has also published on Afro-descendant and indigenous politics and multicultural rights in Latin America. Professor Hooker is the author of Race and the Politics of Solidarity (Oxford University Press, 2009), and has a forthcoming book Theorizing Race in the Americas: An Intellectual Genealogy (Oxford, 2016) that juxtaposes four prominent U.S. African-American and Latin American thinkers: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has appeared in such journals as the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, Politics, Groups and Identities, Souls, Journal of Latin American Studies, and Latin American Research Review. Professor Hooker served as co-Chair of the American Political Science Association’s Presidential Task Force on Racial and Social Class Inequalities in the Americas (2014-2015), and as Associate Director of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at UT-Austin from 2009 to 2014. She is an editorial board member of the National Political Science Review journal of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. Within APSA she has served on the Okin-Young Award and First Book Award Committees of the Foundations of Political Theory Section. Professor Hooker is an award-winning teacher, and has held visiting fellowships at the CUNY Graduate Center, the Du Bois Institute for African American Research at Harvard University, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at Notre Dame.
Statement of Views
As part of the APSA Council my aim would be to encourage the association to make good on its commitments to diversity of various kinds. Specifically: 1) Political Science should better engage with other disciplines, 2) a commitment to methodological pluralism should be a cornerstone of inquiry in all subfields, 3) the association should strive to overcome structural and other kinds of barriers to greater racial and gender diversity within the discipline, particularly at the senior levels of the profession, 4) it should encourage and support public engagement beyond the academy, and 5) as a Latin American working in the U.S. academy I feel strongly that APSA should strive to reverse intellectual hierarchies that continue to privilege the Global North.