Sarah Song (professor)
{{Short description|American legal scholar and political scientist}}
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Sarah Song is professor of law and political science at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a political and legal theorist with a special interest in democratic theory and issues of citizenship, immigration, multiculturalism, gender, and race.
Biography
Born in Seoul, South Korea, Song immigrated to the United States at the age of six. She grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, and Belleville, Illinois, before moving to New Hampshire, where she attended Pinkerton Academy. She received her B.A. from Harvard University in 1996, an M.Phil from Oxford University in 1998, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 2003.
Career and writing
Song is the first Korean American woman to receive tenure at Berkeley Law School and in the Berkeley Political Science Department. She is a popular teacher of a large undergraduate lecture course on justice at Berkeley. She has been awarded fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. She is the author of Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism, which was awarded the 2008 Ralph Bunche Award{{Cite web
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}} by the American Political Science Association for the "best scholarly work in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism." Prior to moving to Berkeley, she was an assistant professor of Political Science and affiliated faculty in Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.{{Cite web | url=https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/sarah-song/| title=Sarah Song, Berkeley Law School Faculty Page}}
Bibliography
= Books =
- {{cite book
| url = https://global.oup.com/academic/product/immigration-and-democracy-9780190909222?cc=us&lang=en&
| title = Immigration and Democracy
| series = Oxford Political Theory
| publisher = Oxford University Press
| year = 2018
| isbn = 9780190909222
| location = New York
}}
- {{cite book
| url = http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/political-theory/justice-gender-and-politics-multiculturalism
| title = Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism
| publisher = Cambridge University Press
| year = 2007
| isbn = 9780521697590
| location = Cambridge New York
}}
= Selected articles =
- {{cite news | title = Why does the state have the right to control immigration? |work= NOMOS: Migration, Immigration, and Emigration |editor=Jack Knight| publisher = New York University Press | location = New York }}
- {{cite news | title = The Significance of Territorial Presence and the Rights of Immigrants|work=Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford | year = 2016 }}
- {{cite news | title = Immigration and Democratic Principles: On Carens's Ethics of Immigration |journal=Journal of Applied Philosophy | year = 2016 }}
- {{cite news | title = The Boundary Problem in Democratic Theory: Why the Demos Should Be Bounded by the State| journal=International Theory|volume= 4 | year = 2012 | issue=1}}
- {{cite news | title = Multiculturalism|work= Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | year = 2010 }}
- {{cite news | title = Democracy and Noncitizen Voting Rights|journal=Citizenship Studies|volume= 13 | year = 2009 |issue=6}}
- "[https://www.amacad.org/publication/daedalus/what-does-it-mean-be-american What does it mean to be an American?]" Daedalus. 2009.
References
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External links
- [http://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/person/sarah-song Person details - Sarah Song]
- [https://www.law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/faculty/facultyProfile.php?facID=7246 Faculty Profile - Sarah Song]
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