天美传媒

I study race and ethnicity in American politics. Within this broad field, I focus on White racial attitudes generally and the attitude of racial sympathy - defined as White distress over Black suffering - specifically. Racial sympathy is a distinct, but understudied, White racial attitude with important political consequences. Using multiple methods including survey research, experimental studies, participant observation, and long-form interviews, my book project examines the origins and depths of this phenomena as well as the conditions that give rise to its political expression. My 2021 article in the Journal of Politics summarizes this work. I have also published research on guilt and prejudice among White Americans.

My research has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post/Monkey Cage, Vox, The Nation, Mother Jones, and Salon.com. I have also provided commentary on race and American politics in the New York Times, NPR's Code Switch and Fivethirtyeight.com.

At Wellesley, I teach courses related to American politics, race and politics, political psychology, and research methods. All of my courses, regardless of title, focus on the role of race and ethnicity in American politics.

I grew up in a multiracial and interfaith household. Prior to graduate school, I worked in politics and have experience at the federal, state, and local levels of American government. I was also a Fulbright Grantee in South Korea. Outside of academics, I enjoy watching plays and musicals and spending time with my daughters.

Introduction:
Prior to coming to the School of Criminal Justice in 1990, Frankie Bailey was acting assistant vice-president for academic affairs and associate professor of criminal justice at Kentucky State University in Frankfort.

Her academic pursuits focus on crime history, crime and mass media/popular culture, and material culture. She has done research on topics related to images of victims, offenders, and criminal justice agents in American culture. She is interested in the intersections of race/ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality. Her current research focuses on dress and appearance. Her books include Out of the Woodpile: Black Characters Crime and Detective Fiction (1991), nominated for the Mystery Writers of America 1992 Edgar Award for Criticism and Biography. With Steven Chermak, she co-edited Famous American Crimes and Trials (2004) With Donna C. Hale, she is the author of Blood on Her Hands: The Social Construction of Women, Sexuality, and Murder (2004). Other books include African American Mystery Writers (2008) and (with Alice P. Green) Wicked Albany: Lawlessness & Liquor in the Prohibition Era (2009). Bailey is the author of five books in a mystery series featuring crime historian Lizzie Stuart. Her new near-future police procedural series debuted with The Red Queen Dies (2013).

Research Interests:
A synthesis of Crime, Social History and Popular Culture.
Victims, offenders, and criminal justice agents in American culture; the intersections of race/ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality.

Allison Fagan is an associate professor in the English department where she teaches courses in Latinx Literature, the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border, African American literature, and contemporary U.S. literature. In the classroom and in her research, she focuses on questions of storytelling: whose stories are lifted and whose sidelined, and which stories—of the border, of the nation, of documented and undocumented subjects and citizens—resonate and which are revised. She is interested in the ways the archives and publishing histories of Latinx and African American writers can complicate the stories we tell ourselves about what counts as American literature. Her book, From the Edge: Chicana/o Border Literature and the Politics of Print (2016, Rutgers UP), shows how physical books carry within them the stories of their production, publication, and reception, documents of the storytelling itself.
She is the coordinator of the Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies minor and works with the Shenandoah Valley Scholars' Latino Initiative. 
She is from Chicago by way of Calumet City, Illinois, and she received a doctorate in literature from Loyola University Chicago in 2010 and a bachelor's degree in English from Saint Xavier University in Chicago in 2004. Before JMU, she worked at Indiana University Northwest.