Role: Political Theorist and Scholar, Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

  Contact: hsparks@emory.edu

  Research Interests:
Race | Gender | Political Dissent

Holloway Sparks earned her PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and came to Emory from Penn State University in 2004. Her research interests include feminist theory, political theory, and American political thought, with an emphasis on the influence of gender, sexuality, race, and class on democratic participation and political protest in the United States. She is the author of Dissident Citizenship: Gender and the Politics of Democratic Disturbance (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2017), which builds on case studies of the U.S. civil rights and welfare rights movements to theorize the neglected role of gender in public struggles over democratic dissent. Her current book project, Enraged: Gendering the Democratic Politics of Anger, investigates the democratic and political challenges posed by anger in the public sphere and includes case studies on the gendered and racialized politics of anger in the Tea Party, the 2016 Presidential election, the U.S. gun control debate, and recent battles over food stamps and the minimum wage.