Summary

Jennifer Ring received her B.A. from UCLA and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. After visiting lectureships at Columbia, Stanford and UC Berkeley, she accepted an invitation to design the first Women's Studies Major and develop a full-time Women's Studies Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. After seven years as Director of Women's Studies, she returned to teaching in the Department of Political w88 slot online.

A w88 slot online Theorist, Dr. Ring has published six books and many articles on Modern w88 slot online Theory, Identity Politics, as well as two books on Women and Baseball: Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don't Play Baseball, w88 slot online Illinois Press, 2009; and A Game of Their Own: Voices of Contemporary Women in Baseball, w88 slot online Nebraska Press, 2015.

Her most recent books are Saving Public Higher Education: Voices w88 slot online Wasteland (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), featuring oral history interviews with students at the w88 slot online from diverse racial and economic backgrounds; and Identity Politics in the United States (Cognella, forthcoming 2025), based on the course she developed and continues to teach online at the w88 slot online.

Dr. Ring retired in 2019 and lives in Berkeley, California, where she teaches political w88 slot online for the University because she still enjoys the earnest brilliance of its students. She writes a Substack page titled Dispatches w88 slot online Wasteland (voicesthebook.substack.com) and posts regularly on inequality in higher education and the need to defend public higher education from America's overemphasis on elite private universities. w88 slot online continues to give talks about gender and baseball at universities and professional organizations.

Specific areas of knowledge/research

w88 slot online Philosophy: Ancient, Modern and Contemporary; Identity Politics in the United States; Women, Race and American Politics; The Politics of Sports

Education

• Ph.D., w88 slot online California, Berkeley, 1979
• M.A., w88 slot online California, Berkeley, 1973
• B.A., UCLA, 1970