Lawrie Balfour

klb3q@virginia.edu Phone: 434 924-4631

Lawrie Balfour is the a uthor of The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy (Cornell University Press) and the forthcoming Democracy’s Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W. E. B. Du Bois (Oxford University Press). Her articles on race and democratic theory have appeared in Political Theory, American Political Science Review, Hypatia, The Review of Politics, and edited collections. She is now working on a book project on reparations for slavery and Jim Crow. Balfour has held fellowships from the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard Divinity School, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. A recipient of multiple teaching awards, she was Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Associate Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University in 2008-2009. She is a member of the Journal of Politics editorial board.

Lawrie Balfour's Curriculum Vitae (.pdf 21K)