Deondra Rose
Kevin D. Gorter Associate Professor of Public Policy
Deondra Rose is the Kevin D. Gorter Associate Professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy with secondary appointments in the Department of Political Science and the Department of History. She is also the Director of Polis: Center for Politics
and Co-director of the North Carolina Scholars Strategy Network (SSN)
. Her research focuses on U.S. higher education policy, political behavior, American political development, and the politics of inequality, particularly in relation to gender, race, and socioeconomic status.
Rose is the author of Citizens by Degree: Higher Education Policy and the Changing Gender Dynamics of American Citizenship (Oxford University Press, 2018), which examines the development of landmark U.S. higher education policies--including the National Defense Education Act of 1958, the Higher Education Act of 1965, and Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments--and their impact on the progress that women have made since the mid-twentieth century. Her new book manuscript, The Power of Black Excellence: HBCUs and the Fight for American Democracy , examines the crucial role that historically Black colleges have played in American political development.
A summa cum laude , Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Georgia, Rose received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University, with a specialization in American politics and public policy.
Rose is the author of Citizens by Degree: Higher Education Policy and the Changing Gender Dynamics of American Citizenship (Oxford University Press, 2018), which examines the development of landmark U.S. higher education policies--including the National Defense Education Act of 1958, the Higher Education Act of 1965, and Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments--and their impact on the progress that women have made since the mid-twentieth century. Her new book manuscript, The Power of Black Excellence: HBCUs and the Fight for American Democracy , examines the crucial role that historically Black colleges have played in American political development.
A summa cum laude , Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Georgia, Rose received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University, with a specialization in American politics and public policy.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Kevin D. Gorter Associate Professor of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University 2022 - 2027
- Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University 2021
- Director of Polis: Center for Politics, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University 2019
- Associate Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2021
- Associate Professor of Political Science, Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2021
Contact Information
- 226 Sanford Building, Box 90245, Durham, NC 27708
- Box 90245, Durham, NC 27708
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deondra.rose@duke.edu
(919) 613-7395
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Personal Website
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