TODAY! Bunche Authors’ Series Presents Megan Ming Francis

Bunche Center Authors’ Series

Presents

  Megan Ming Francis

Discussing her book

Civil Rights

and the Making of the Modern American State

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 

Library and Media Center – Haines Hall 135

12 Noon – 1:00 PM

Megan Ming Francis is the author of Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Francis’s work sits at the intersection of American politics, race, constitutional law, and history. Francis earned a PhD from the Department of Politics at Princeton University and a BA in Political Science and Economics from Rice University. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. You may follow her on Twitter @meganfrancis.  Introduction by Uri McMillan, UCLA assistant professor of English.

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