I am a Brooklyn-based political scientist, writer, editor, and educator. I write about activism, culture, parenting, education and writing itself.

Selected Publications

Books

The Politics of Genetically Modified Organisms in the United States and Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

In progress: An Every Person’s Guide to Saving the World.

Newsletter

Let’s Write: Quick Thoughts on the Art of Writing and Editing (new edition about once a week)

Popular Articles

Why Saving New York City’s Universal Preschool Matters for the Country, The Thread, May 2023.

My family traveled Norway by train. The cars had a huge playground, stroller parking, books for kids, and 'Peppa Pig playing on TV.' Insider, March 2023

When Witnessing Becomes Activism. YES! Magazine, 2022.

When Authors Feel Like Friends. Oh Reader, June 2022.

Miracle on 34th Street is a Feminist Triumph. Thursday Matinee, December 2021.

Articles and Book Chapters

Baker, K. (2021). “Breastfeeding in the Academy: A User’s Guide.” in PhD to Parenthood Trap, edited by Kerry Crawford and Leah Windsor.

Clancy, K. and Bauer, K (2021). “Scaffolding research methods across the curriculum: An exploration of embedded curricular design.” Teaching Research Methods in Political Science, edited by Jeffrey L. Bernstein, Edward Elgar Publishers.

Baker, J and Clancy, K. (2020). "‘Scoping’ the routes, roots, and rights to the city: 'Mobilities of vision' and reading the social movement landscape of Thessaloniki, Greece." GeoHumanities.

Baker, J, Clancy, K, and Clancy, B. (2020). “Putin as gay icon: Memes as tactic in Russian LGBTQIA+ activism” R. Buyantueva and M. Shevtsova (eds.), LGBTQ+ Activism in Central and Eastern Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, 209-223.

Clancy, K. (2020). “Political science and community-engaged, project-based learning,” The Political Science Educator. 24 (1): 9-11.

Clancy, K and Bauer, K (Spring 2019). “Reconceptualizing diversity and difference: Teaching US and Comparative Politics in conversation.” Comparative Politics Newsletter. 29 (1): 85-92.

Clancy K., and Bauer, K. (2018). “Creating student-scholar-activists: Discourse instruction and social justice in political science classrooms.” New Political Science 40 (3): 542-557.

Bauer, K and Clancy, K. (2017). “Teaching race and social justice at a predominantly white institution.” Journal of Political Science Education, 14 (1): 72-85.

Clancy, K and Clancy, B. (2016). “Growing monstrous organisms: The construction of anti-GMO visual rhetoric through digital media.” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 33 (3): 279-292.

Book Reviews and other publications

Clancy, K. (2021). “Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform.” Political Science Quarterly.

Clancy, K (2018). “ORBÁN: Europe’s new strongman: Book review.” Journal of Contemporary European Studies. (26) 2: 241-242.

Clancy, K, Mikell, R. and Vieria, E. (2016). “APSA teaching and learning track summary: Core curriculum,” PS: Political Science and Politics. 49 (3): 571-586.

Clancy, K (2007). “Metaphorical world politics: Book review.” Rhetoric and Public Affairs. 10 (1): 142-144.