Andrea Y. Simpson, University of Richmond
Council 2005-07

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.