Virginia (“Gina”) Sapiro is Professor Emerita of Political Science and Dean Emerita of Arts & Sciences at Boston University, and the Sophonisba P. Breckinridge Professor Emerita of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She has published extensively in the fields of political psychology, political behavior and public opinion, gender politics, and feminist and democratic theory.
Her major current project is a study of the history of higher education in the United States and its relationship to American political and social development. It is a deep study of American higher education in its local, state, and national context showing how profoundly it has been shaped by its particular times and places and the vagaries of historical change. With a working title, The Coming Crisis in American Higher Education: 1636-2036, little did the author know when she started out how appropriate this title is. She is available to give talks and workshops on many aspects of this history.
More information is available on her c.v., on this website.
Professor Sapiro has received many honors and awards for her research, teaching, and service. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002, and in 2015 received the International Society for Political Psychology Harold Lasswell Award for distinguished scientific contributions in the field of political psychology and in 2016 she was given the Frank J. Goodnow Award to recognize a career of distinguished scholarship and professional service.
When not being extremely professional Gina is most likely to be found in her garden in New Hampshire tending to her tomatoes, potatoes, squashes, eggplants, peppers, and other vegetables as well as her flowers, or she is baking. Unless it is winter. In which case she is reading seed catalogues and fantasizing about her gardens. And baking. She is also a duly elected Supervisor of the Checklist in Gilmanton, N.H., sharing the task of ensuring that people eligible to vote can do so.
Me on an easel
