Dr. Patricia Posey

Biography

Patricia Posey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. She specializes in American political economy, focusing on issues of inequality, race, and ethnic politics, as well as research methods. Posey's current book project examines the effects of banking and loan institutions on political attitudes and participation, particularly within poor, Black, and Brown communities influenced by the fringe economy. Her academic work has been recognized with several awards, including the Urban Politics Section’s Byran Jackson Dissertation Research Minority Politics Award and the Susan Clarke Young Scholar award from the American Political Science Association's Urban Local Politics section. Posey’s research has been published in prestigious academic outlets such as the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and in mainstream media outlets like the Washington Post. Before her position at Chicago, she held a Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowship and was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her PhD in Political Science in 2019 and a double BA in Political Science and Sociology in 2013.

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