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Doug Spencer

Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research, Professor of Law

Doug Spencer is the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research and Professor of Law at the University of Colorado. Professor Spencer is an election law scholar whose research examines the role of prejudice and racial attitudes in voting, and the ways that election rules and political campaigns contribute to growing inequality in America. Professor Spencer holds a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the. He graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in 2004 with a B.A. in Philosophy.Ìý

Professor Spencer will explore the rise of political branding, or the use of corporate advertising strategies to sell political ideas — along with what branding strategies on the machinery of politics means for the right to vote in America.Ìý

Celeste Montoya

Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Faculty Director of Miramontes Arts & Sciences Program

Celeste Montoya is Associate Professor of Women & Gender Studies and the Faculty Director for the Miramontes Arts & Sciences Program (MASP). She holds a PhD in political science and her research primarily focuses on the ways in which women and racialized communities mobilize to enact change, with a particular focus on Latinas and other women of color. She has published on social movements, gender violence, voting rights, and political representation. She is currently working on a project exploring Latina political leadership and activism in Colorado.Ìý

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Professor Montoya will provide a historical overview of how parties have realigned their approaches to race and gender and how this has contributed to contemporary patterns of polarization.Ìý

Jennifer Hendricks

Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Juvenile and Family Law Program

Jennifer Hendricks is a professor here at CU law school. Her research interests include sex equality and sex differences, constitutional family law, equality in sports, and relational feminist theory. Her book on pregnancy and parental rights, Essentially a Mother: A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and Motherhood, is coming out from the University of California Press this spring.Ìý

Professor Hendricks will discuss the politicization of reproduction’s deep history in the United States and how it is intertwined with racial and gender hierarchies, both under Roe v. Wade’s regime of medical control and in the new, post-Roe regime of state control over pregnancy.Ìý