Prowse, Gwen
Assistant Professor of Political Science & Africana Studies
I am an assistant professor in the Departments of Political Science and Africana Studies at Tulane University.
My work examines how members of race-class subjugated communities mobilize in response to social policy failures, particularly at the subnational level. At the core of my research is the conviction that bottom-up accounts are vital for understanding political life; that no study of democratic inequality is complete without them. I am a co-PI (with Vesla Weaver and Tracey Meares) for the Portals Policing Project, which draws from the largest-known archive of first-hand accounts of policing to examine how police-citizen interactions shape political knowledge, discourse, and resistance in the United States.
My collaborative work has been published in The Journal of Urban Affairs, The Journal of Politics, The Journal of Race & Ethnicity Politics, Science, Social Sciences Quarterly, and the Florida Law Review.
I earned my Ph.D. in political science and African American studies from Yale University and my B.A. in urban planning and public policy from Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
Biography
I am an assistant professor in the Departments of Political Science and Africana Studies at Tulane University.
My work examines how members of race-class subjugated communities mobilize in response to social policy failures, particularly at the subnational level. At the core of my research is the conviction that bottom-up accounts are vital for understanding political life; that no study of democratic inequality is complete without them. I am a co-PI (with Vesla Weaver and Tracey Meares) for the Portals Policing Project, which draws from the largest-known archive of first-hand accounts of policing to examine how police-citizen interactions shape political knowledge, discourse, and resistance in the United States.
My collaborative work has been published in The Journal of Urban Affairs, The Journal of Politics, The Journal of Race & Ethnicity Politics, Science, Social Sciences Quarterly, and the Florida Law Review.
I earned my Ph.D. in political science and African American studies from Yale University and my B.A. in urban planning and public policy from Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
