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Julie Novkov (Ph.D. 1998, University of Michigan; J.D. 1992, New York University School of Law) is a Collins Fellow and Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY and directs Undergraduate Studies for Political Science. She directed the graduate program in political science from 2008-2011 and chaired the department from 2011 throuhg 2017. Her research and teaching address the intersections of law, history, US political development, and subordinated identity.

She has published three books. Racial Union: Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama 1865-1954 (Michigan 2008; co-recipient of the Ralph Bunche Award from APSA in 2009), Constituting Workers, Protecting Women (Michigan 2001), and the source book The Supreme Court and the Presidency (CQ Press 2014). She is also the co-editor of three volumes, Statebuilding from the Margins (with Carol Nackenoff), Race and American Political Development (with Joseph Lowndes and Dorian Warren), and Security Disarmed: Critical Perspectives on Gender, Race, and Militarization (with Barbara Sutton and Sandra Morgen) and has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and shorter works. She is currently writing a new book on citizenship and civic membership in the context of military service and she and Carol Nackenoff are developing an edited volume on the family, the state, and American political development, a short book on Wong Kim Ark v. United States, and a longer book on Chinese exclusion.

Julie served as president for the Western Political Science Association in 2016-17. Her involvement in the American Political Science Association includes serving as a member of APSA’s executive council, president of the Law and Courts and Sexuality and Politics Sections, chairing the LGBT Status Committee, serving on prize and award committees and executive councils for Law and Courts, Interpretive Methods and Methodologies, and Politics and History, and organizing panels for Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence. The Law and Courts section honored her in 2015 with its annual Teaching and Mentoring Award. She has also served on several journals’ editorial boards. She directed Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oregon.