Faculty

Hooker, Juliet
Assistant Professor

Office: MEZ 3.146
Phone: 512-232-7273
juliethooker@mail.utexas.edu

Education: Professor Hooker received her B.A. from Williams College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University.

Research interests:
Professor Hooker's research interests include Contemporary Political Theory, Democratic Theory, Feminist Theory, Comparative Political Theory, Latin American Political Thought, Critical Race Theory, and Latin American Politics, especially Afro- descendant and Indigenous politics.

Courses taught: She teaches courses in Feminist Theory, Race and Democracy, Nationalism and Citizenship, Latin American Political Thought, and U.S.-Central America Relations.

Field(s) of Study: Political Theory

Awards/Honors:
Her most recent awards include a Visiting Fellowship at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and a Junior Scholar in the Study of Democracy in Latin America Grant from the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Ford Foundation.

Recent Publications:
Professor Hooker's first book, entitled Race and the Politics of Solidarity , is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Her articles on multicultural citizenship, race and nationalism, and Afro-descendant social movements in Latin America have appeared or are forthcoming in the Journal of Latin American Studies, the Latin American Research Review, Tempo Social, and Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society.