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Stefanie Chambers

Professor and Department Chair of Political Science, Trinity College

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About Stefanie

Chambers' research and teaching focus on migration, mayoral leadership, urban education, and racial and ethnic politics, gender and politics and environmental justice. She has developed a personal teaching philosophy that emphasizes academic rigor, the development of critical thinking and writing skills, engagement with the Hartford community, and that places priority on issues of diversity. Beyond her scholarship, she is actively engaged in community service in Hartford.  She serves on the board of Achieve Hartford!, an educational advocacy organization in Hartford.  She was also Trinity’s Director of the Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy, a 6-12 public school in Hartford, from 2011 to 2014.

In the News

Opinion: "In Winning U.S. House Primary, Ilhan Omar Breaks Barriers and Sets an Example," Stefanie Chambers, Star Tribune, August 16, 2018.
Interviewed in "Somali Refugee Integration in the U.S.," WOSU Public Media, February 22, 2017.
Research discussed by Mark Ferenchik, in "Columbus Needs Somali Cops, Better Assimilation, Scholar Says," Columbus Dispatch, January 9, 2017.