LAPS Female Student Internship 02

Mary Coleman

Dr. Coleman is the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies. She is also a Professor of Political Science and Global Studies.

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Professional Title:  Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies; Professor of Political Science and Global Studies
Education:  BA, Jackson State University; MA, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Harvard Law Fellow and Woodrow Wilson International Scholar
Representative List of Recent Publications / Exhibitions:  

  • “Transnational Civic Education in Contested Lands” in Middle East Digest, 2011
  • “The Rural Poor in the American South: Case Studies of Exits from 20th Century Poverty” in Poverty and Public Policy: A Global Journal of Income Insecurity, Aid and Welfare, University of California Berkeley Press, 2009
  • Encyclopedia Editor Contemporary Topics in Mississippi (University of Mississippi Press), 2009
  • When is Civic Indifference Citizenship Loss? Campus Compact Reader (Brown University,2005) 
  • Race and Higher Education: A Review Campus Compact Reader (Brown University, 2004) 
  • “Child Well-Being, Data Sources and Performances Measures: Assessment and Evaluation in Welfare Reform” ASPE 2000 (with Jeff Koshell)
  • Recapturing the Virtue of Liberal Democracy: Romania and the Deliberative Democracy Project,” National Romania Review of Political Science, 2001
  • “Deracialization Strategies in Black Politics in Mississippi: An Overview,” with Kenya Hudson in Mississippi Government and Politics in Transition, ed. Joseph Parker (revised edition) 2001
  • “The Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act,” in the American Political Science Review 2001
  • "Leveraging in Local Politics: A Review Essay" National Political Science Review (1990)
  • "Black Elected Elites in Mississippi: A Post-Apportionment Assessment,” in Black Politics and Black Political Behavior: A Linkage Analysis, ed. Hanes Walton, Jr. (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1994)
  • Legislators, Law and Public Policy: Explaining Political Change in Mississippi and the South (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1993)

Dr. Coleman is the recipient of national teaching awards, is a Woodrow Wilson International Scholar and has participated in scores of humanities seminars in this country and abroad. She has received research awards from the National Science Foundation and has served on United Nations teams in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.