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Sarah Song
Title: Professor of Law; Associate Professor of Political Science
Tel: 510-643-5637
Fax: 510-643-2673
Email Address: ssong@law.berkeley.edu
FSU Contact: Catharine Schultz
Sarah Song's fields of interest include contemporary political and legal philosophy, the history of American political thought, and immigration and citizenship law. She has written on issues of citizenship, immigration, nationalism, multiculturalism, and feminism. Her book, "Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism" (Cambridge, 2007), was awarded the 2008 Ralph Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association. She is currently working on papers on the boundary problem in democratic theory and the moral and legal significance of territorial presence, as well as a book project on the ethics of immigration policy.
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 Political Theory from Oxford and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 2003 to 2007, she taught in the Political Science Department at M.I.T. She holds a joint appointment with the U.C. Berkeley Department of Political Science.
Education:
B.A., Harvard University (1996)M. Phil., Oxford University (1998)
Ph.D., Yale University (2003)