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Megan Ming Francis

Associate professor, Department of Political Science

Politics and elections, Race, equity and identity

206-685-2338 / meganmf@uw.edu

Expertise: American politics, race, the development of constitutional law, black political activism, the construction of rights and citizenship

Author of the 2014 book “Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State.”

 


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