Carol M. Swain
Carol M. Swain is an American political scientist and Professor of Law and Political Science at Vanderbilt University. She is an expert on race relations, immigration, black leadership, representation, evangelical politics and the Constitution. Her most recent book is Be the People: A Call to Reclaim America’s Faith and Promise.[1]
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[edit] Biography
She was born in Bedford, Virginia. One of twelve children raised in poverty, she did not attend high school. She earned a GED and later an associate’s degree from Virginia Western Community College. She went on to complete a B.A. in criminal justice, magna cum laude, from Roanoke College and master's degree in political science from Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University. She finished a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned a master's degree in Law from Yale Law School in 2000.[2] She has two children.
[edit] Academic Work
Swain is the author of Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993, 1995), which was cited by the United States Supreme Court in Johnson v. DeGrandy[3] and in Georgia v. Ashcroft.[4] This book also won the prestigious Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award from the American Political Science Association.[5]
Swain also wrote The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).[6] She also edited Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) and Race Versus Class: The New Affirmative Action Debate (University Press of America, 1996), an anthology of student essays.[7]
Swain is a notable public intellectual. She has written op-eds in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post,[8] and The Chronicle of Higher Education. She frequently makes media appearances in outlets including ABC News, CNN, and Fox News.[9] She has testified before Congress on multiple occasions, once alongside Stephen Colbert.[10]
[edit] Public Service
She served as an advisor to the US Civil Rights Commission[11] and she was a member of the National Council on the Humanities.[12] She was a Trustee of Roanoke College.[13] She is a foundation member of the Nu of Virginia Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. She currently leads The Carol Swain Foundation, a non-profit to “seek to educate the American people about conservative values and principles and to encourage them to acknowledge and to re-embrace the Judeo-Christian heritage of our nation.”[14]
[edit] References
- ^ Swain, Carol. "Be the People". Thomas Nelson. http://www.thomasnelson.com/consumer/product_detail.asp?sku=0849948282&title=Be_the_People.
- ^ "Swain CV". http://www.vanderbilt.edu/political-science/people/bios/cvs/swain-carol.pdf.
- ^ "Justice Kennedy cites Swain - Johnson v. DeGrandy". http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/92-519.ZC1.html.
- ^ "O'Connor cites Swain - Georgia v. Ashcroft". http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-182.ZO.html.
- ^ "Woodrow Wilson Award Winners - American Political Science Association". http://www.apsanet.org/media/Woodrow%20Wilson%20Foundation%20Award.pdf.
- ^ "Google Books- New White Nationalism". Google Books- New White Nationalism. http://books.google.com/books?id=HB1wyFPRGm4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=carol+swain&hl=en&ei=f-H8TeLVDKXu0gHhsMSfAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- ^ "Swain Page". Vanderbilt Political Science Department. http://www.vanderbilt.edu/authors/carolswain/about.
- ^ "Huffington Post Page". http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-m-swain.
- ^ "CNN Transcript featuring Carol Swain". CNN Transcript featuring Carol Swain. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0802/04/ldt.02.html.
- ^ "Swain Colbert Testimony". Swain Colbert Testimony. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9KWfzlq3MI.
- ^ "Tennessee Advisors - US Civil Rights Commission (see page 5)". http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/TNDESEGFULL.pdf.
- ^ "Members- National Council on the Humanities". Members- National Council on the Humanities. http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/council.html.
- ^ "Roanoke College Trustees". Roanoke College Trustees. http://roanoke.edu/news_and_events/news_archive/copenhaver_scholar_events.htm.
- ^ "Carol Swain Foundation". http://www.carolmswain.net/foundation/.
[edit] External links
- Vanderbilt University Website [1]
