Prof. Debra Thompson, Lansdowne Visitor Jan 25

Dr. Debra Thompson will be visiting Political Science in late January as the Department’s Lansdowne Visitor. She is a leading scholar of the comparative politics of race, with teaching and research interests that focus on the relationships among race, the state and inequality in democratic societies. She is the author of The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging in North America (Simon & Schuster, 2022), finalist for the Hilary Weston Writer’s Trust Prize for Nonfiction.