Nancy Wadsworth

Professor

Faculty

http://www.nancywadsworth.com

Sturm Hall, 2000 East Asbury Avenue Denver, CO 80208

What I do

I am an Americanist political scientist who focuses primarily at the intersections of American politics and popular culture, and author of Ambivalent Miracles: Evangelicals and the Politics of Racial Healing (U of Virginia Press, 2014). My subfield interests include race and religion in U.S. political life; social movements; political theory; Native American political history; reconciliation and conflict resolution; and climate politics and activism.

Professional Biography

Born and raised in California, I have called Colorado my home state since 1991. My undergraduate degrees (Political Thought and Women's Studies) are from the University of California at Santa Cruz. I earned my graduate degrees at the Graduate Faculty at New School for Social Research in New York City, and completed a two-year postdoctoral Carnegie Mellon research fellowship at Cornell University. I have been teaching at the University of Denver since 2004.

Degree(s)

Ph.D., Political Science/American Politics, New School for Social Research, 2001
MA, New School for Social Research, 1995
BA, Modern Society & Social Thought/Women's Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1986

Professional Affiliations

American Political Science Association
Western Political Science Association
Association for Political Theory
American Studies Association

Featured Publications

Stratton, B., & Wadsworth, N. (2017). A more nuanced approach to painful parts of Colorado history , p. 2D. Denver Colorado, United States: Denver Post. Retrieved from http://www.denverpost.com/2017/06/09/a-more-nuanced-approach-to-painful-parts-of-colorado-history/

Wadsworth, N. (2018). Awakening the Civic Dead: Political Mobilization of the Zombie in Real Time. The Popular Culture Studies Journal, 6(2-3), 190-216. Retrieved from https://mpcaaca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Volume-6-Numbers-23-2018.pdf

Wadsworth, N. (2014). Ambivalent Miracles: Evangelicals and The Politics of Racial Change. Charlottesville, VA, United States: University of Virginia Press. Retrieved from https://books.upress.virginia.edu/detail%2Fbooks%2Fgroup-4608.xml

Wadsworth, N. (2018). The Racial Demons that Help Explain Evangelical Support for Trump. Washington, DC: Vox News. Retrieved from https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/4/30/17301282/race-evangelicals-trump-support-gerson-atlantic-sexism-segregation-south

Presentations

Wadsworth, N. (2019). "Rwanda in the Wake of Genocide: Stretching to Understand the Unfathomable". Radical Forgiveness, Imagination, and Justice in our Teaching. SIE Center, University of Denver: Office of Teaching and Learning.

Wadsworth, N. (2017). Confronting Historical Amnesia as Scholarly Praxis. Western Political Science Association. Vancouver, BC.

Wadsworth, N. (2015). "Marcuse Stalks the Walking Dead". Association for Political Theory Annual Conference. Boulder, Colorado: Association for Political Theory.

Wadsworth, N. (2016). "The DU John Evans Study Committee Report: Its Context, Challenges, and Impact". Violence and Settler Colonialism Class.

Wadsworth, N. (2017). Dude, Seriously? On the Dirty, Dirty Magic of Romantic Comedies. "Three Things" Series. Denver MCA: Denver Museum of Contemporary Art.

Awards

Dean's Award for Faculty Excellence (DAFE), AHSS Dean's Office
University of Denver Faculty Service Award, Faculty Senate
"Best Badass Professor", Clarion Magazine