Faculty Affiliate Naomi Murakawa is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. She specializes in American politics with an emphasis on racial and gender politics, public policy, and American political development. In addition, her teaching interests include: American racial formation, feminist politics, and the politics of crime and punishment.

Major Research Projects:

• "Electing to Punish: Congress, Race, and the American Criminal Justice State"
  
• The politics of crime and punishment
• Racial and gender politics

Sample Publications:

• “The Racial Antecedents to Federal Sentencing Guidelines: How Congress Judged the Judges from Brown to Booker.” 2006. Roger Williams University Law Review: Symposium on Sentencing Rhetoric 11(2): 473-494.
• “The Origins of the Carceral Crisis: Racial Order as ‘Law and Order’ in Postwar American Politics.” In Race and American Political Development, eds. Joseph Lowndes, Julie Novkov, and Dorian Warren. New York: Routledge, 2008.
• “Toothless: Race, the War on Drugs, and the Methamphetamine Epidemic." (forthcoming)

Contact Information:

Naomi Murakawa
Email: murakawa@u.washington.edu
Homepage: http://www.polisci.washington.edu/Directory/Faculty/Faculty/faculty_murakawa.html
Naomi Murakawa's CV: [pdf]