Details — “The Politics of Sports: How Black Athletes Can Change the Game" — October 15
| Date: 10/15 | Time: 7 pm |
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Dr. Christopher Towler is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at California State University, Sacramento. He will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, October 15, and you can watch by clicking here. His research and teaching interests broadly include American politics, race and ethnicity, and methodology. More specifically, his work examines ideological predispositions, alienation, political allegiance and empowerment. Recent projects examine the dynamic relationship between progressive social movements and far-right movements reacting to great social change, highlighting both the role Donald Trump plays as a political threat and Black athletes play as political inspiration for Black mobilization. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle, and holds a B.A. from the University of Colorado. A former McNair and Ralph Bunche scholar, Dr. Towler was also a McNair Graduate Fellow as well as a Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral and Dissertation Fellow. His work has been published in Perspectives on Politics, Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics and Du Bois Review. Dr. Towler also directs the Black Voter Project public opinion survey, and is a Senior Policy Fellow for the California Policy and Research Initiative (CalPRI).