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Michelle D. Deardorff
Michelle D. Deardorff is the Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Government and department head of Political Science and Public Service at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She has taught courses that discuss issues of race—such as Civil Rights and Black Political Thought—at both predominately white universities and at a historically black university. As a founding faculty member of the Fannie Lou Hamer Institute on Citizenship and Democracy, she has participated in and led innumerable discussions on race with all manner of audiences over the last 20 years.