UCI Faculty Profiles: Katherine Tate

	Katherine Tate
Position:	Professor, Political Science School of Social Sciences
Degree:	PH.D., University of Michigan
Research Interests:	American politics, African American politics, and public opinion
Research Abstract:	Professor Tate's research focuses on the politics of race and African Americans. She teaches courses in these fields as well as on the study of American public opinion and public policy.
Publications:	What's Going On? Critical Transformations of Black Public Opinion. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, in press.

	Black Faces in the Mirror, African Americans and Their Representatives in the U.S. Congress Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 2003. (Winner of 2004 V.O. Key Jr. book award; co-winner of the 2004 Race, Ethnicity, and Politics APSA Section's book award; co-winner of 2005 NCOBPS' outstanding book award; named an "Outstanding academic title" by Choice Magazine in 2003).

	From Protest to Politics: The New Black Voters in American Elections Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation, 1994. (Co-winner of 1994 V.O. Key Jr. book award; co-winner of NCOPBS' 1995 outstanding book award).

Address	University of California 4177 Social Sciences Plaza Building A Department of Political Science Mail Code: 5100 Irvine, CA 92697
Phone:	(949) 824-1869
Fax:	(949) 824-8762
Email:	ktate@uci.edu
Updated	11/10/2009