Cathy Lisa Schneider Professor Emerita Politics, Governance & Economics
- Degrees
- PhD, Cornell University; MA, Cornell University; MA, State University of New York at Albany; BA, State University of New York at Albany
- Languages Spoken
- French, Spanish
- Bio
- Professor Schneider teaches and writes on democracy, dictatorship and resistance; comparative social movements; collective violence; racial profiling, police violence and racial and ethnic discrimination in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Her publications include Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014); Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995); and Collective Violence, Contentious Politics and Social Change: A Charles Tilly Reader, edited with Ernesto Castaneda (Routledge, 2017) and articles such as 鈥淧olice Violence and Community Based Resistance in Seine-Saint-Denis, Ferguson and New York,鈥"Police Abuse and the Racialized Boundaries of Citizenship in France," "When does Police Violence Spark Urban Unrest?" "Violence and State Repression: Debating the Arab Spring," "Police Power and Race Riots in Paris," "Violence, Identity and Spaces of Contention in Argentina, Chile and Colombia," "Racism, Drug Policy and AIDS," and "Framing Puerto Rican Identity." She is regularly quoted by major media outlets, including The Washington Post, New York Times, BBC, AFP, BBC World, CBS, NBC, NPR and others. She recently published two Washington Post op-eds: "Police are Responding to Protests against Police Violence with More Violence," and "Five Myths about riots."
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Teaching
Fall 2024
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SIS-899 Doctoral Dissertation
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Research Interests
Dr. Schneider writes and teaches on comparative social movements, urban politics and political violence.
Selected Publications
- Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York听(Philadelphia: Penn Press, 2014, paperback 2017)
- Collective Violence, Contentious Politics and Social Change: A Charles Tilly Reader听New York: Routledge, 2017, in Spanish 2022 .(edited with Ernesto Castaneda)
- 鈥淧olice Violence and Community Based Resistance in Seine-Saint-Denis, Ferguson and New York,鈥 APSA Comparative Politics Newsletter: Symposium on Policing and Domestic Security Forces, May 28, 2018.
- "Police Power and Race Riots in Paris," in Politics and Society听35(4) Winter 2007.听 听听听听听
- Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile (Philadelphia: 听Temple University Press, 1995).听 听
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