Contributions by Scholars of Color Interview Series: Highlights from Dr. Dianne Pinderhughes, University of Notre Dame
Dr. Dianne M. Pinderhughes gives advice to early career political scientists. Dr. Dianne Pinderhughes is the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.
In this interview, Dr. Pinderhughes reflects on her upbringing, introduction to political science, and various challenges she faced in her career, and additionally shares advice for young scholars in the discipline. This interview was conducted by APSA’s Senior Director for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and Strategic Initiatives, Kimberly Mealy, at the NCOBPS Annual Meeting in Atlanta Georgia, March 10, 2023.
The way in which the field has developed over the last 30 years, the behavioral revolution, the emphasis on quantitative, the emphasis on increasing the modeling, is part of what I think keeps the field very successful at reproducing generations of White scholars who are not especially interested in cultural dynamics.
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As part of an ongoing series examining contributions of Scholars of Color, the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Department conducted a series of oral history interviews during the 2023 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Annual Meeting held in Atlanta, Georgia. This collection of interviews contributes to a continuous project that seeks to amplify the scholarship and contributions of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to the profession and investigate the history of race and racism in the political science profession. It further builds upon the APSA-Pi Sigma African American Alpha Oral History Project (1988-1994) and is motivated by the McClain Task Force on Systemic Inequality in the Discipline (2022). Each interview premiered at the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, CA and will be shown at the 2024 NCOBPS Annual Meeting.
