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Clarissa Rile Hayward
NationalityAmerican
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FieldsPolitical science
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Clarissa Rile Hayward is an American political scientist and political philosopher, currently a professor in political science at Washington University in St. Louis with affiliations in American culture studies, urban studies, and philosophy. Hayward studies the theory of political power, how political phenomena relate to theories of identity, and urban politics in the United States.

Early career and education

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Hayward obtained a BA in politics from Princeton University in 1988, both an MA and an MPhil from Yale University in 1994, and a PhD from Yale University in 1998.[1] In 1999, she became a professor at the Ohio State University, before moving to Washington University in St. Louis in 2007.[1]

Career

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Hayward published her first book, De-facing power, in 2000. The book argues that the main conceptions of power in political theory assume that it necessarily consists of one group or individual reducing the capacity of others to act freely, so that it has a sort of "face" by which it can be identified.[2] The book challenges this negative liberty idea of power as a state of domination by one person over another.[2] Instead, Hayward builds on the post-structuralist work of Michel Foucault to argue that social power should be understood as a set or network of boundaries—consisting of patterns like laws, norms, and institutions—which can either constrain or enable action.[3]

Hayward's second book, How Americans Make Race: Stories, Institutions, Spaces, was published in 2013. The book is partly motivated by a paradox in American racial inequality: how to reconcile the empirical reality of racial inequality with the pervasive norms against racism, and more broadly how to explain the tangible material consequences of identities if we understand identities only as cultural narratives that people associate themselves with.[4] Hayward uses the case of residential real estate to illustrate how apparently non-political motivations for this ubiquitous behavior, such as a desire for comfort and security, have origins in stories about racial identity that American culture has historically relied on to ensure that racial categories have material consequences, through tools like neighborhood segregation and the development of exclusive suburbs.[4] These ideas, which have shaped peoples' relationships to physical space, were explicitly rationalized by politicians and developers as those spaces were being developed, and these rationalizations were based on racial identities.[5] This book won the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association's best book award for 2013.[6]

Hayward is a member of the 2020-2024 editorial leadership of the American Political Science Review,[7][8] which is the most selective political science journal.[9] She is also a past editor of Political Research Quarterly and the Journal of Politics.[1]

Hayward has written several news articles about contemporary American politics in venues like the Washington Post,[10] Jacobin,[11] and The St. Louis American,[12] and has been quoted as an expert in venues like Time.[13]

Selected works

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  • De-facing Power (2000)
  • "The Difference States Make: Democracy, Identity, and the American City", American Political Science Review (2003)
  • How Americans Make Race: Stories, Institutions, Spaces (2013)

Selected honours and awards

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Clarissa Rile Hayward Profile". Washington University in St. Louis Arts and Science Faculty. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  2. ^ a b Topper, Keith (November 2004). "Review of De-facing power". Journal of Politics. 66 (4): 1336–1339. doi:10.1017/S0022381600004400. S2CID 155695319.
  3. ^ Digeser, P.E. (September 2002). "Review of De-facing power". American Political Science Review. 96 (3): 614. doi:10.1017/S0003055402260360. S2CID 143461109.
  4. ^ a b Lebron, Christopher J. (April 2015). "Review of How Americans make race: Stories, institutions and spaces". Contemporary Political Theory. 14 (2): 201–204. doi:10.1057/cpt.2014.17.
  5. ^ Autry, Robyn (November 2015). "Review of How Americans make race: Stories, institutions and spaces". Contemporary Sociology. 44 (6): 808–810. doi:10.1177/0094306115609925t. S2CID 147412568.
  6. ^ a b "Dennis Judd Best Book Award". American Political Science Association. 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  7. ^ "APSA Announces the New Editorial Team for the American Political Science Review". American Political Science Association. 26 July 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  8. ^ Marshall, Jenna (26 July 2019). "Righting the balance: New APSR editors meet at SFI to discuss gender and race in scientific publishing". Santa Fe Institute. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  9. ^ "Cutting-Edge Research Agenda". University of Tennessee Knoxville. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  10. ^ Hayward, Clarissa (15 August 2014). "Is Ferguson anomalous?". The Washington Post. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  11. ^ Gordon, Colin; Rile Hayward, Clarissa (9 August 2016). "The Murder of Michael Brown". Jacobin. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  12. ^ Tormos-Aponte, Fernando; Rile Hayward, Clarissa (9 April 2019). "Close the Workhouse campaign gains momentum". The St. Louis American. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  13. ^ Nicks, Denver (18 August 2014). "How Ferguson Went From Middle Class to Poor in a Generation". Time. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
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