Anna Marie Smith

Anna Marie Smith is Professor of Government at Cornell University. She was a Visiting Senior Scholar at the Center for Gender and Sexuality and the Law, Columbia Law School, in 2008-09, and a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University, in 2009-10. She is the author of Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation (Cambridge, 2007), for which she won the Victoria Schuck Award from the APSA, as well as two other books and several articles and chapters in anthologies. Her research interests include jurisprudence and normative political theory; distributive justice; poverty assistance programs and public education policy; feminist theory and feminist legal studies; critical race theory; and the rhetoric of modern State power and citizenship.