Sarah Song
Assistant Professor of Law and
Political Science
Phone: (510) 643-5637
Office Location: 422 North Addition (Berkeley Law School)
Office Hours: On Leave
Summer 2009 Course: Not teaching in Political Science this term
Sarah Song's fields of interest include political and legal theory and the history of American political thought. Her research focuses on contemporary liberal and democratic theory in relation to issues of citizenship, nationalism, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, and immigration.
Her book, "Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism" (Cambridge, 2007) considers the relationship between liberal values and legal and informal accommodations for religious and cultural minorities, and explores the tensions between such accommodations and the pursuit of gender equality. The book was awarded the 2008 Ralph Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association. Her current work explores issues of sovereignty, migration, and the rights of noncitizens within liberal democratic states.
Professor Song is a graduate of K-12 public schools and Harvard College, where she majored in Social Studies. She received an M.Phil in Politics from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prior to coming to Berkeley, she taught in the Political Science Department at M.I.T.
Books
Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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Articles
- "Democracy and Noncitizen Voting Rights,"
Citizenship Studies, vol. 13, no.6 (forthcoming 2009). - “What Does It Mean To Be an American?”
Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 138, no. 2 (Spring 2009) - "The Subject of Multiculturalism: Culture, Religion, Ethnicity, Nationality, and Race?" New Waves in Political Philosophy,
ed. Boudewijn de Bruin and Christopher Zurn (Palgrave MacMillan, 2008) - "Religious Freedom v. Sex Equality,"
Theory and Research in Education, v. 4, n. 1 (2006) - "Majority Norms, Multiculturalism, and Gender Equality,"
American Political Science Review, v. 99, n. 4 (November 2005) - "La défense par la culture en droit américan (The cultural defense in american law)," Critique internationale, n. 28 (juillet-septembre 2005)