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Tiffany Willoughby-Herard

Assistant Professor

Contact Info:
Office: HSS 129
Office Hours: No 2008 Summer Office Hours
Phone: (415) 405-2471
Email: twillher@sfsu.edu
Website: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~twillher
http://bss.sfsu.edu/polisci/faculty_profiles/willoughby-herard.htm

Tiffany Willoughby-Herard (Ph.D., University of California , Santa Barbara ) specializes in race, gender, class, political theory, and comparative politics. Her courses focus on colonization, emancipation, the history and philosophy of social science, as well as comparative study of philanthropy and transnational construction of racial ideologies. Her research interest centers on race and gender in foreign policy and development, South African politics, democratic politics, and African Diaspora Studies.

She is currently working on a book examining contemporary discourses of post-raciality and color-blindness in the "global" post-apartheid era. Dr. Willoughby-Herard was previously a Visiting Scholar with the Human Sciences Research Council Democracy and Governance Group in Pretoria , South Africa , a Research Assistant with the Rio Tinto UCLA Labor Law Center Project in Paracatu, Brazil , and a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego. She also held a teaching post at the University of Michigan , Flint .

Her recent publications include: “Student Journalism: Writing and Perseverance Beyond the Culture Wars, the End of History, the New World Order and the Clash of Civilizations,” Conference Proceedings of the University of Michigan Futuring Diversity Conference, available at http://www.diversity.umich.edu/futuring/twilloughby.html and “Writing in Solidarity: The New Generation,” Race and Class : Special Issue on Cedric J. Robinson, vol. 47, number 2. She will be teaching courses on Black Political Thought; Colonialism, Gender and Scientific Racism; Classical Political Thought; and Theories of Social Identity in South Africa .