Sarah Song
Assistant Professor of Law and
Political Science
Phone: (510) 643-5637
Office Location: 422 Boalt Hall (North Addition)
Office Hours: Tu 3-5
Fall 2008 Course: PS215B Topics in Contemporary Political Theory
Sarah Song's fields of interest include political and legal theory and the history of American political thought. Her research focuses on 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. She explores the tensions between such accommodations and the pursuit of gender equality. Her current work explores issues of citizenship, sovereignty, and immigration within contemporary liberal and democratic theory.
Her recent publications include "Majority Norms, Multiculturalism, and Gender Equality," in American Political Science Review (2005); "La défense par la culture en droit américan (The cultural defense in American law)" in Critique internationale (2005); 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.
Books
Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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Articles
- "Majority Norms, Multiculturalism, and Gender Equality,"
American Political Science Review, v. 99, n. 4 (November 2005) - "Religious Freedom v. Sex Equality,"
Theory and Research in Education, v. 4, n. 1 (2006) - "La défense par la culture en droit américan (The cultural defense in american law)," Critique internationale, n. 28 (juillet-septembre 2005)