Dara Strolovitch Receives Best Book Award from American Political Science Association
Strolovitch was recognized for her book, When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America.
Dara Strolovitch, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and Political Science in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been selected as a winner of the American Political Science Association’s 2024 Race, Ethnicity and Politics Best Book Award.
When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America (University of Chicago Press, 2023) traces the history and use of the word “crisis” in American politics and reflects on how the word is yielded by political actors today.
Strolovitch’s book was recognized by the APSA as the Best Book in Race and Public Policy for its “timeliness” and “invaluable contribution to the field.” Her book was selected alongside Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss by Juliet Hooker, Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Political Science at Brown University.
Strolovitch spoke to Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), of which she is a faculty fellow, about her book’s thesis that “crisis politics have become a mechanism for justifying the use of state power to protect privileged groups and for justifying its retrenchment or redirection when it comes to marginalized groups.”
Strolovitch is also a co-director of the ISPS Center for the Study of Inequality with Assistant professor of Political Science Allison Harris.