Erica Townsend-Bell

Erica Townsend-Bell is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Oklahoma State University. She teaches courses in race and gender politics, social movements and qualitative methods, with an expertise in intersectionality, comparative equality, and Latin American politics. Her research areas focus on the normative implementation of intersectionality (the contention that markers of difference, such as race, class, gender, sexuality, and the like, are inseparable and must be treated as such), comparative racial politics, and the politics of inclusion. Her work has been published in Political Research Quarterly, Signs, The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics, Politics and Gender, and Palgrave's intersectionality series, among other outlets. She is currently working on a book manuscript, Incorporating Difference: Implementing Intersectionality in Latin America.