Teri Fair, Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor of Government

 

 

Mailing Address
Suffolk University
8 Ashburton Place
Boston, MA 02108

 

Office Location
20 Ashburton Place, 2nd Floor, Room 205
Phone: 617.573.8569
Email: tfair@suffolk.edu

 

Fields of Interest

• American Politics
• Urban Politics
• Public Policy
• Black Politics
• Minority Politics

Education

• Ph. D., Political Science, 2006
  Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia
  Subfields: American Politics, Theory, African Politics, Comparative Politics
  “An Attitudinal Case Study of Blacks in the Eastern Region of Texas”
• M.A., Political Science, 2002
  Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia
  Subfield: American Politics
  “An Examination of the 73rd Session of the Texas Legislature: Evidence of Coalition Building among Black and Latino Legislators”
• B.A., English, 1997
  Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
• Summer Institute in Political Psychology, 2005
  Stanford University
• Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, 2006 and 2007
  University of Michigan
  

Organizational Memberships

• American Political Science Association
• National Conference of Black Political Scientists
• Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated

Courses Taught

• GVT 110 - Introduction to American Government
• GVT 120 - Research Methodology
• GVT 201- Statistic for Political Science
• GVT 309/609 - Critical Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement
• GVT 346/648 - The American Presidency 
• GVT 357/657 - Urban Politics and Government
• GVT 435 - Race and Public Policy
• SF 101 - Minority Politics in the United States
• SF 160 - The Politics of W.E.B. DuBois