Hawley Fogg-Davis received her A.B. degree magna cum laude in Government from Harvard University in 1993. She completed her Ph.D. in Politics in 1998 at Princeton University where her doctoral research on the politics of transracial adoption, was funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Princeton University Center for Human Values. In 1998 she became Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005. In 2001-02 she was a Ford Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago where she researched and wrote about race and the ethics of reproductive technology. Since 2000, she has been involved in the Brazil-U.S. Ford-funded collaborative research project, “Race and Democracy in the Americas,” which has held conferences in Salvador, Brazil, and Sacramento, as well as joint meetings with the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. In August 2005 she taught a seminar on Race and Political Theory Methodology at the Federal University of Bahia in Salvador, Brazil. She has also been the political science field reviewer for the Ford Foundation’s Transitions to College Study, which examines the state of social science research into disadvantaged populations’ education and career paths over the past ten years.

Recent Publications:

Hawley Fogg-Davis, "Racial Randomization: Imagining Nondiscrimination in Adoption" in Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.

Hawley Fogg-Davis, "Theorizing Black Lesbians within Black Feminism: A Critique of Same-Race Street Harassment," Politics & Gender 2 (2006), 57-76.

Hawley Fogg-Davis, “The Racial Retreat of Contemporary Political Theory” Perspectives on Politics vol. 1, no.3 (September 2003): 555-564.

Hawley Fogg-Davis, The Ethics of Transracial Adoption (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002).

Hawley Fogg-Davis, “Navigating Race in the Market for Human Gametes,” Hastings Center Report vol. 31, no.3 (2001): 13-21.

Areas of current Research interest:

Contemporary African American political thought, especially black feminism and black conservatism, and Anti-discrimination Law