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Jessica Carew

Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy

Department: Political Science and Public Policy

Office and address: Gray Pavilion - Pol. Science, Office 114 2333 Campus Box Elon, NC 27244

Phone number: (336) 278-6458

Brief Biography

Dr. Jessica D. Johnson Carew is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Policy at Elon University.  She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University in 2012.  She earned her M.A. in Political Science from Duke University in 2008, and her B.A. in Political Science from Yale University in 2004.  Dr. Carew's main areas of interest for research include the intersection of race and gender in American politics, identity politics, candidate evaluation, public opinion, political psychology, and voting behavior.  She teaches various courses in the Political Science and the Core Curriculum, including American Politics, Race and Ethnicity in American Politics, Intro. to Poverty and Social Justice, and Film, Race, and Politics (a Core Capstone course). Dr. Carew is a co-author on the Seventh Edition of Can We All Get Along: Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics.  She currently serves as the Assistant Director of DEI in the Core Curriculum, as well as the Coordinator of the African and African-American Studies at Elon (AAASE) Interdisciplinary Minor Program.

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Education

Ph.D., Duke University

M.A., Duke University

B.A., Yale University

Employment History

Associate Professor of Political Science and Policy Studies, Elon University

Post-Doctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor, Elon University

Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke University

Courses Taught

 

 

Publications

2019       “Mothers of the Movement: Black Motherhood and the Political Power of Grief in the 2016 Presidential Election“ in Women of the 2016 Election: Voices, Views, and Values, ed. Jennifer Schenk Sacco.  Lanham: Lexington Books.

2019       "White House, Black Mother: Michelle Obama and the Politics of Motherhood as First Lady."  Politics and Gender, Vol. 15 (3): 460-483. With Gloria Y. Ayee, Taneisha N. Means, Alicia M. Reyes-Barrientez, and Nura A. Sediqe.

2018       “Can We All Get Along?”: Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics, Seventh Edition. Paula D. McClain and Jessica D. Johnson Carew.  Westview Press.

2016      “How Do You See Me?: Stereotyping Black Women and How It Affects Them in an Electoral Context” in Distinct Identities: Minority Women in U.S. Politics, eds. Nadia Brown and Sarah Gershon. New York: Routledge Press (Identity Politics Series).

2015       “Minority Political Engagement and Representation in the United States.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Ed. Sandy Maisel. New York: Oxford University Press.

2012       "Intergroup Relations in Three Southern Cities: Black and White Americans' and Latino Immigrants' Attitudes.”  In Just Neighbors? Research on African American and Latino Relations in the U.S., eds. Edward Telles, Mark Sawyer, and Gaspar Rivera-Salgado.  New York: Russell Sage Foundation.  With Paula D. McClain, Gerald F. Lackey, Efrén O. Peréz, Niambi M. Carter, Eugene Walton, Jr., Candis S. Watts, Monique L. Lyle and Shayla C. Nunnally.

2009       “Group Membership, Group Identity, and Group Consciousness: Measures of Racial Identity in American Politics?”  In Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 12.  With Paula D. McClain, Eugene Walton, Jr., and Candis S. Watts.