Mark Sawyer

Mark Sawyer is currently an Associate Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at UCLA, the Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics and the Chair of the UCLA Interdisciplinary Program in Afro-American Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in December of 1999. In fall of 2005 he was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University and also was a RWJ Scholar in Health Policy.

His published work includes a book entitled, " Racial Politics in Post Revolutionary Cuba" that received the DuBois Award for the best book by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and the Ralph Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association. He has written articles on the intersection between race and gender in modern Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic and additional work on the impact of race relations on democratic transition in Cuba. He also has interest in the area of race, immigration and citizenship around the globe. He has published in the Journal of Political Psychology, Perspectives on Politics, SOULS, as well as the UCLA Journal of International and Foreign Affairs. He has also been a writer and commentator for CNN, Fox News, La Opinion, NPR’s News and Notes, the Washington Post’s “the root.com,” and EbonyJet.com.