Research Interests for Kerry L Haynie

KERRY L. HAYNIE, Ph.D., (Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Department Chair, Co-Director, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences). Professor Haynie teaches courses in American politics and the specialized areas of African American politics, legislative processes, state-level politics, and the American federal system. Along with articles in The Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and, the International Journal of Africana Studies, his publications include African American Legislators in the American States (Columbia University Press, 2001), and The Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics, volumes I and II (Oryx Press, 2000). Professor Haynie is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Public Affairs and Issues, Politics and Policy, and State Politics and Policy Quarterly. He is also the Chief Faculty Consultant to the Educational Testing Service for the Advanced Placement Government and Politics Program. A native of Kannapolis, North Carolina, he received his B.A.(1985) and Ph.D. (1994) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has a Masters of Public and International Affairs degree from the University of Pittsburgh (1988).

Areas of Interest:

African American Politics
Legislative Politics
State Politics

Representative Publications

1. K. Haynie, African Americans and the New Politics of Inclusion: A Representational Dilemma?, in Congress Reconsidered, 8th, edited by Lawrence. C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer (2005), CQ Press