Patricia Posey
Patricia Posey is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Her research broadly examines the relationship between race and American political economy, focusing on links between capitalism, urban space, and political behavior, drawing from her expertise as a mixed methodologist. Her current book project examines the political and financial inclusion of racial and ethnic minorities in the US. She has work forthcoming or published in academic outlets, such as The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and Journal of Research on Adolescence, and public outlets, such as the Politics of Color and The Washington Post. She was awarded a Russell Sage Foundation Gates Foundation Pipeline Grant to support new work exploring race, class, and COVID-19 and the Susan Clarke Young Scholar award from the American Political Science Association’s Urban and Local Politics section. Prior to joining the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago, she was a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago, a pre-doctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her PhD in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
