Andrea Y. Simpson University of Richmond

CAREER AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Andrea Y. Simpson began her academic career in 1993 as an assistant professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.  During her tenure there, she completed two postdoctoral fellowships: The Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at the Center for Research on Women, (the CROW Center), at the University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee.  At UC-Berkeley, she completed her first book, The Tie that Binds (New York University Press, 1998), named the "Best Book of 1998 on Racial Identity" by the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics section of the American Political Science Association.  Simpson received tenure at the University of Washington in December of the year 2000.  After eleven years of service at the University of Washington, Simpson is now an associate professor at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia.  She is currently completing a project that examines the effects of gender, race, and class on political mobilization within the environmental justice movement.  A book manuscript is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

STATEMENT OF VIEWS
 
I have been a member of APSA for over twelve years, during which time I have served as president of the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section and on the Publications Committee. I have also served on the Executive Council of the Western Political Science Association, and co-program chair for the 2004 annual meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.  I consider my mentorship of young scholars of color and women a significant part of my contribution to the profession.  I support the expansion of the discipline to embrace critical analyses and research on the interaction of race, ethnicity, sex, and gender in fostering political agency, participation, and activism.  If elected to the Executive Council, I hope to continue to foster the inclusion of what some consider marginal areas of inquiry in the discipline as well as help to expand and develop programs that yield intellectual and professional benefits for all graduate students and junior scholars.