Steven White
Associate Professor, Political Science Department
Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute
Courses
- 2024 Spring
- PSC 612 Development of the American Administrative State
- PSC 303 The Development of the American State
- 2023 Fall
- PSC 804 Advanced Topics in Qualitative Methods
- PSC 312 The New Deal and American Politics
- 2023 Spring
- PSC 338 Race, Ethnicity, and American Politics
- PSC 303 The Development of the American State
- 2022 Fall
- PSC 312 The New Deal and American Politics
- 2022 Spring
- PSC 338 Race, Ethnicity, and American Politics
- PSC 303 The Development of the American State
Highest degree earned
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2014
Areas of Expertise
American politics, American political development, race and politics
Research Grant Awards and Projects
"AY 2019 - 2020 Center for the Study of Democratic Politics Fellowship", Sponsored by Princeton University.
Selected Publications
- Book
- White, S. M., World War II and American Racial Politics: Public Opinion, the Presidency, and Civil Rights Advocacy. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Journal Articles
- Fang, A., White, S. M., "Historical Information and Beliefs About Racial Inequality." Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2024.
- White, S. M., "State Parties, the Democratic National Convention, and Civil Rights Liberalism." Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics , 2023.
- Suryanarayan, P., White, S. M., "Slavery, Reconstruction, and Bureaucratic Capacity in the American South." American Political Science Review, 2021.
- White, S. M., "Race, Religion, and Obama in Appalachia." Social Science Quarterly, 2019.
- White, S. M., "Civil Rights, World War II, and U.S. Public Opinion." Studies in American Political Development, 2016.
- White, S. M., "The Heterogeneity of Southern White Distinctiveness." American Politics Research, 2014.
- Book Chapter
- Suryanarayan, P., White, S. M., "Identity in Historical Political Economy." In The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy. Jenkins, J., Rubin, J. (eds.) Oxford University Press, 2024.
- Book Reviews
- White, S. M., "Politics of the American South." In Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Maisel, S. (ed.) Oxford University Press, 2018.
- White, S. M., "From Pariahs to the Privileged: On Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men." Los Angeles Review of Books, 2017.
- Essay
- White, S. M., "Race and Southern Political Development." Journal of Politics , 2019.
- Newsletters
- White, S. M., "Frances Perkins and the Limits of New Deal Racial Liberalism." Clio: Newsletter of Politics & History, an Organized Section of the American Political Science Association, 2020.
- Suryanarayan, P., White, S. M., "Social Status and Redistributive Politics: Lessons from India and the American South." Newsletter of the Organized Section in Comparative Politics of the American Political Science Association, 2019.
- Newspaper Articles
- White, S. M., "Confederate flags and Nazi swastikas together? That’s new. Here’s what it means." The Washington Post (Monkey Cage blog), 2017.
- White, S. M., "Most Americans opposed integrating the military in 1948. Most Americans support transgender military service today." The Washington Post (Monkey Cage blog), 2017.
- White, S. M., "Many Americans support Trump’s immigration order. Many Americans backed Japanese internment camps, too." The Washington Post (Monkey Cage blog), 2017.
Honors and Accolades
Heinz I. Eulau Award, American Political Science Association (2022)
Visiting Research Scholar Fellowship, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University (2019 - 2020)