Greta F. Snyder

Greta F. Snyder

Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

[email protected]
413-597-2634
Hollander Hall Rm 58

Education

B.A. Haverford College (2003)
M.A. University of Virginia (2007)
Ph.D. University of Virginia (2011)

Courses

WGSS 101(F, S) SEM

Introduction to Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies

WGSS 260 / PSCI 260 SEM

Power, Feminist-Style (not offered 2023/24)

WGSS 263 / SOC 264 SEM

Transnational Activism: Practice, Problems, Ethics (not offered 2023/24)

WGSS 308(S) SEM

Parenting for a Feminist-Queer-Trans World

WGSS 314 / SOC 314 SEM

The Social Ecology of Racial and Gender Inequity (not offered 2023/24)

PSCI 335 SEM

Racial Equity, Liberal Democracy, and Democratic Theory (not offered 2023/24)

WGSS 345(F) SEM

The Pedagogy of Liberation

Scholarship/Creative Work

2021. “Absolving Responsibility and Dampening Activism?: The Structural Racism Framework, Democratic Motivation, and the Complex Systems Alternative,” New Political Science, doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2021.1928915

2020. “Illuminating the vernacular of inequity: recognition, interaction ritual theory, and microaggressions,” Politics, Groups and Identities, doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2020.1797836

2019. Review of Black Rights/White Wrongs: The critique of racial liberalism by Charles W. Mills. Contemporary Political Theory, doi.org/10.1057/s41296-018-0208-5

2018. “Unambivalent about Ambivalence in the Politics of Mourning: David McIvor’s Mourning in America and Simon Stow’s American Mourning,” Democratic Theory, doi.org/10.3167/dt.2018.050210

2016. “Recognition in the Struggle against Global Injustice” in Recognition and Global Politics: Critical encounters between state and world, doi.org/10.7765/9781526101037

2015. “‘Marking Whiteness’ for Cross-Racial Solidarity,” The Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, doi.org/10.1017/S1742058X15000144

2015. “Solidarity,” The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, doi.org/10.1002/9781118663202.wberen496

2014. “On Post-Blackness and the Black Fantastic,” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, doi.org/10.1080/10999949.2014.968952

2012. “Multivalent Recognition: Between Fixity and Fluidity in Identity Politics,” The Journal of Politics, doi.org/10.1017/s0022381611001563

2011. “Self-work and the Reproduction of Privilege: Reading Beloved against Antigone,” Polity, doi.org/10.1057/pol.2011.11

Current Committees

  • Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies