Jessica Blatt

Title

Associate Professor of Political Science

Department

Politics and Human Rights

Email

jblatt@mmm.edu

Phone

646-393-4138

About

Jessica Blatt joined Marymount Manhattan College in 2010. Before coming to the College, she taught American politics at Sarah Lawrence College.

Professor Blatt’s research focuses on American political thought and particularly how ideas about difference—race, gender, class, and other categories—interact with political discourse and public policy.

She is the author of Race and the Making of American Political Science (University of Pennsylvania Press 2018). She teaches courses on social and political theory, race, and American political development.

Degree(s)

B.A., University of California, Berkeley
M.A., New School for Social Research
Ph.D., New School for Social Research

Location

The Faculty Center, Room 500