Assistant Professor Todd Shaw
PhD. University of Illinois
Email: shawtc AT sc.edu
Phone: 803.777.6507

Until the spring of 2002, Shaw was on the faculty of the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and has joined both USC's Department of Political Science and African-American Studies Program. He researches and teaches broadly in the areas of African American politics, urban politics and public policy, as well as social movements.

His current research agenda is to explore the political, sociological, and ideological ramifications of changes in the post-Civil Rights Movement African American community. Specifically he is very interested in how class, gender, age and other social factors create differing definitions of what constitutes African American group interests. Toward these ends, he has a book contract with Duke University Press entitled, Now Is The Time!: Detroit Black Politics and Opportunities for Grassroots Activism. In this manuscript, he explores the dynamics between black grassroots housing activism and the responsiveness of black elected officials in Detroit, MI and related cities. With regard to shorter monographs, Shaw has published in the Journal of Politics, the National Political Science Review, a chapter in the volume Black Political Organizations in the Post-Civil Rights Era (Rutgers University Press), and has a forthcoming article in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Along with his Detroit project, he and his co-authors continue to explore contemporary, African American attitudes toward the ideology of Black Nationalism and the impact of political dialogue upon Black patriotism within post-9/11 multicultural America.

Shaw is a recipient of the 1999-2000 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Minority Fellowship and a recipient of the 2002 Department of Political Science Charles Berdahl Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award at the University of Illinois.