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Department of Political Science
713 Hill Hall
(973) 353-5105
segers@andromeda.rutgers.edu
http://politicalscience.newark.rutgers.edu
Mary Segers serves as Chair of the Political Science Department at Rutgers Newark. A Professor of Political Science, she was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at Princeton University, and a Ford Foundation Lecturer in Women’s Studies in Religion at Harvard Divinity School. She served as Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the University of Warsaw in Spring 1999. In 2001, she returned to Warsaw University as a Fulbright Senior Specialist.
She is the author of nearly 50 scholarly essays and seven books. These volumes include Piety, Politics and Pluralism: Religion, The Courts, and the 2000 Election (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002); A Wall of Separation? Debating the Role of Religion in American Public Life (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998); Abortion Politics in American States (M.E. Sharpe, 1995); The Catholic Church and Abortion Politics: A View From the States (Westfield Press, 1992), and other books. Her most recent book is Faith-Based Initiatives and the Bush Administration: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, co-authored with Jo Formicola and Paul Weber (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).
Her current research focuses on religion and politics in America and also in comparative perspective. She is especially interested in the political activism of the churches and in issues of tolerance in religiously diverse societies. She teaches courses in American political thought, in religion and politics, in ethical issues and public policy, and in women and politics. Her course in Liberalism, Religion, and Toleration may be of interest to graduate students in American Studies.
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