Todd C. Shaw, Pd.D., and Willie Black, Doctoral Student
DR. TODD C. SHAW joined the University of South Carolina’s Department of Political Science and African-American Studies Program in 2002 as an assistant professor. He researches and teaches broadly in the areas of African American politics, urban politics and public policy, as well as social movements.
His current research agenda is to explore the political, sociological, and ideological ramifications of changes in the post-Civil Rights Movement African American community. Specifically, he is very interested in how class, gender, age and other social factors create differing definitions of what constitutes African American group interests. Toward these ends, he has a book contract with Duke University Press entitled, Now Is The Time!: Detroit Black Politics and Opportunities for Grassroots Activism.
Shaw has published in the Journal of Politics, the National Political Science Review, a chapter in the volume Black Political Organizations in the Post-Civil Rights Era, and has a forthcoming article in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He and his co-authors continue to explore contemporary, African American attitudes toward the ideology of Black Nationalism and the impact of political dialogue upon Black patriotism within post-9/11 multicultural America.
Until the spring of 2002, Shaw was on the faculty of the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Shaw is a recipient of the 1999-2000 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Minority Fellowship and the 2002 Department of Political Science Charles Berdahl Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award at the University of Illinois.
MR. WILLIE BLACK is an Instructor of Political Science and Social Science Statistics at Benedict College. He is also a doctoral student in the Political Science Department at the University of South Carolina. His teaching and research interests include American Politics and African American politics.