Professor Emerita and Author

Political Theory, Identity Politics, Public Higher Education, Gender & Sports, Hannah Arendt

Jennifer Ring is a Professor Emerita of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. She received her Bachelor’s degree from UCLA and her Masters and Doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. Ring has been a visiting professor at Berkeley, Stanford, and Columbia University. She has published books and articles in Political Theory, Feminist Theory, and Identity Politics in the U.S. Her two recent books, about women and baseball, have received widespread public attention. Her most recent publication, Saving Public Higher Education: Voices From The Wasteland , features oral history interviews with public university students from diverse racial and class backgrounds.