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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES – Cathy Lisa Schneider

Cathy Lisa Schneider
Associate Professor
Comparative & Regional Studies

Phone
202-885-1666

Fax
202-885-2494

E-Mail
cschnei@american.edu

Location
Clark, Room 212

Biography
Professor Schneider writes and teaches on comparative urban politics, social movements and political violence. She holds a PhD from Cornell University and has been a fellow at the Columbia University Center for Scholars at Reid Hall, Paris; Aaron Diamond Foundation in New York; and a Watson post doctoral fellow at Brown University. Her publications include among others Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile (Temple University Press, 1995), "Police Power and Race Riots in Paris" (Politics and Society, December 2007), "Crime Wars and Racial Intolerance in New York and Paris" ( New Developments in Asia Pacific and the World) "Racism, Drug Policy and AIDS," (Political Science Quarterly, 1998), "Violence, Identity and Spaces of Contention in Argentina, Chile and Colombia" (Social Research, 2000), and "Framing Puerto Rican Identity" (Mobilization, 1997). She is currently writing a book on the policing of minority neighborhoods in Paris and New York, and is a member of Senator Barak Obama's criminal justice and foreign policy advisory committees.

Education
MA, PhD, Cornell University
BA, MA, S.U.N.Y. at Albany

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