. >> i will introduce megan ming francis. i will talk a little bit more about the professional and personal. megan ming francis is an assistant professor in the department of political science at the university of washington at seattle. she won her b.a. in political science and economics at rice university in 2003 and soon after in 2008 she earned her doctorate in politics at princeton university where she worked with melissa harris. and cornell west. field two positions at the university of chicago and the indiana university school before joining pepperdine university where she was an assistant professor for four years and got quite distant following teaching courses on politics and law in society. megan ming francis's workers at the intersection of american politics, race, constitutional law and history and she is particularly interested in riots and citizenship and the politics of cannibalism. she is the author of "civil rights and the making of the modern american state" which was published this year on cambridge universit

megan ming francis as an assistant professor at the department of political science at the university of washington in seattle. she earned her ba in science and economics at rice university in 2003 and soon after in 2008 she and her doctrine and politics at princeton university and with cornell west. she killed two postdoctoral agreements in chicago and indiana university school of law and before joining at pepperdine university where she was an assistant for four years and garnered quite the politics and the law and society are work at the intersection of american politics, race, constitutional law and she's particularly interested in the conception of rights and citizenship, political activism and politics of populism. she's the author of civil rights and the making of the modern american state which is published just this year on the cambridge university press. as of so this argues the naacp played a pivotal role in the federal court power in the criminal procedure and subsequently in the civil rights by helping the court wrestle away the jurisdiction from the state courts in the f