Jennifer Ring

Current Syllabi:

  • PSC 354-Politics and Women

Jennifer Ring has been at UNR since 1996 when she was appointed Director of Women's Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and her B.A. from UCLA. She taught at U.C. Berkeley, Stanford University, Columbia University, and the University of South Carolina, prior to her arrival at UNR. Dr. Ring's teaching fields include Classical Greek and Modern European Political Theory (with specialization in Marxism and its German predecessors), American Political Theory, Women and Politics (with an emphasis on race and gender), and Feminist Theory. She is author of The Political Consequences of Thinking: Gender and Judaism in the Work of Hannah Arendt (1997); Modern Political Theory and Contemporary Feminism: A Dialectical Analysis (1991); and articles on Marxism, liberal theory, feminist epistemology, race and gender, and the work of Hannah Arendt, which have appeared in The American Journal of Political Science, The Review of Politics, Political Theory, and Women and Politics. She is a nationally known expert on multicultural feminism, especially African American and Jewish feminism, and feminist epistemology.