​Deondra Rose is the Kevin D. Gorter Associate Professor of Public Policy and Associate Professor of Political Science and History at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy.  She is also the Director of Polis: Center for Politics and Co-director of the North Carolina Scholars Strategy Network (SSN).  Her research and teaching interests include higher education policy, American Political Development (APD), political behavior, identity politics (e.g., gender, race, and socioeconomic status), and inequality.  

Her book, Citizens by Degree: Higher Education Policy and the Changing Gender Dynamics of American Citizenship (Oxford University Press 2018), examines the development of landmark U.S. higher education policies--like Title IX and federal financial aid programs--and their impact on women's movement toward first-class citizenship.  

A summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Georgia (Political Science), Rose received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University (Government), with a specialization in American Politics and Public Policy.

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