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Sarah Song
Title: Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science
Office: 422 Boalt Hall (North Addition)
Tel: 510-643-5637
Fax: 510-643-2673
Email Address: ssong@law.berkeley.edu
FSU Contact: Stephanie Dorton
Sarah Song's fields of interest include political and legal philosophy and the history of American political thought. Her research focuses on contemporary liberal and democratic theory in relation to issues of citizenship, nationalism, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, and immigration.
Her book, "Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism" (Cambridge, 2007), considers the relationship between liberal values and legal and informal accommodations for religious and cultural minorities, and explores the tensions between such accommodations and the pursuit of gender equality. The book was awarded the 2008 Ralph Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association. Her current work explores issues of citizenship, sovereignty, migration, and alienage in liberal democratic states.
Her recent publications include "Democracy and Noncitizen Voting Rights" in Citizenship Studies (2009), "What Does It Mean To Be an American?" in Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009), and "Religious Freedom v. Sex Equality" in Theory and Research in Education (2006).
Professor Song is a graduate of K-12 public schools and Harvard College, where she majored in Social Studies. She received an M.Phil in Politics from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prior to coming to Berkeley, she taught in the Political Science Department at M.I.T.
Education:
B.A., Harvard University (1996)M. Phil., Oxford University (1998)
Ph.D., Yale University (2003)
