Vera Fennell
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Chicago, 2001
M.A., Political Science, University of Chicago, 1990
A.B., East Asian Studies, Princeton University
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Research Areas
Additional Interests
- Chinese Politics
- Gender Politics
- Global Racial Identities
- Global Studies
- Africana Studies
Biography
Congressional Legislative Intern – Office of Congressman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY), 1988-1989.
Responsible for developing and tracking federal legislation on women’s issues for the congressman.
Legislative Intern – Office of the Mayor of New York City, The Commission on the Status of Women, 1989-1990(worked under Virginia Gide, Legislative Director)
Responsible for tracking local, state and federal legislation on women’s issues.
Research Intern – The Ford Foundation, Beijing PRC, summer 1991 (worked under Mary Ann Burris, Program Officer, Women’s Reproductive Health). Conducted interviews with women’s issues activists, scholars, and Chinese Communist Party officials on the status of women’s studies as a discipline and the network of students, researchers, activists and officials engaged in investigating and publicizing the status of women in urban and rural China.
Research Intern – Asia Division – Human Rights Watch, New York, NY, fall, 2003-spring, 2004. Researched China-related human rights issues.
Research Associate- Hubert Humphrey Institute for Research on Race, Gender and Public Policy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, fall, 2007- spring, 2008.
Member, Executive Board - Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Network, Conferences and Events Subcommittee, December, 2022 – ongoing.
Teaching
GS001: Introduction to Global Studies (every semester from 2010-2023)
POLS 003/GS 003: Comparative Politics. (once every year from 2018-2023)
POLS 090: Imagining the Self (first-year experience course). (only in 2010)
POLS 090: Comparative Politics – An Introduction (first-year experience course)
POLS295/FILM295: Soft Power of Film in China and the U.S. (2020)
POLS343/GS343/ASIA343/AAS343: Globalizing Race in Asia and Africa. (Spring, 2014, 2015, 2016)
POLS395/495: China’s Development Model: The Belt and Road Initiative (Spring, 2022)
POLS397/497WGSS/ASIA: The Women’s Movement in China. (Fall, 2022)
POLS 398/ASIA 398/GS 398: The Rise of the Modern State in Asia. Fall 2017, 2023; Spring 2020)