Dianne Pinderhughes

Dr. Dianne Pinderhughes is Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. At Notre Dame she is also a Faculty Fellow at the Kellogg Institute, a Faculty Affiliate in the Gender Studies Program, and is also a Concurrent faculty member in American Studies.

Pinderhughes holds the 2022-23 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. She is President of the International Political Science Association, 2021-2023. She was First Vice President of the International Political Science Association (2014-2016) and Program Co-Chair of the July 2016 World Congress held in Poznan, Poland. She has been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2003-04). Pinderhughes served as President of the American Political Science Association from 2007-2008, and as President of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists from 1988-89. The APSA Presidential Task Force she appointed completed its report: Political Science in the 21stt Century, in 2011. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. In 2019 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2023 she was named to the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Pinderhughes’ research addresses inequality with a focus on racial, ethnic and gender politics and public policy in the Americas, explores the creation of American civil society institutions in the twentieth century, and analyzes their influence on the formation of voting rights policy. Her publications include Race and Ethnicity in Chicago Politics: A Reexamination of Pluralist Theory (1987). Black Politics After the Civil Rights Revolution: Collected Essays, Routledge is forthcoming. She is co-author with Carol Hardy-Fanta, Pei-te Lien and Christine Sierra of Contested Transformation: Race, Gender and Political Leadership in 21st Century America (2016); and co-author with Todd Shaw, Louis DeSipio and Toni-Michelle Travis of Uneven Roads: An Introduction to US Racial and Ethnic Politics, Congressional Quarterly Press, (2015, 2018).