Holloway Sparks
Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies
hsparks@emory.edu

Holloway Sparks earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
and came to Emory from Penn State University in 2004.
Her research interests include feminist theory, political theory, and American political thought, with an emphasis on political dissent, women's activism, political identities, and democratic communication. She is currently completing a book called Dissident Citizenship: Gender and the Politics of Democratic Disturbance that investigates the way gender combined with race, class, and sexuality to both enable and constrain women's democratic activism in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the U.S. welfare rights movement. She is also researching a project on gender, anger, and democratic communication, and is co-authoring an essay exploring the gendered dynamics of the Jessica Lynch rescue.

Her teaching interests in Women's Studies include feminist theory, feminist political theory, the history of feminist thought, feminism and postmodernism, the history and theory of women's activism, and feminist research methods.