We believe the study of American Political Economy is essential to creating the next generation of leaders, citizens, and scholars who can address the rising inequality in the United States, and yet APE courses are not commonly offered at the undergraduate level. Therefore, we are developing curricular materials informed by best practices in curriculum and instruction for teaching courses on American political economy to undergraduates. We envision twin goals for this curricular project. First, we hope to translate the foundational ideas and texts in the field into essential questions, skills, concepts, and mindsets that undergraduate students need to begin thinking about the American Political Economy in comparative perspective. Second, we will vet resources and develop high-quality, near-classroom ready materials to empower upcoming APE scholars to teach APE courses effectively and equitably across a range of undergraduate classrooms. We hope to ease the start-up costs for offering such courses by developing a set of foundational tools that instructors can adjust to meet their specific needs.
Meet the Grantees
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Sarah James
Faculty member
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Gonzaga University
Sarah James is an assistant professor in the Political Science Department at Gonzaga University. She earned her PhD in Government and Social Policy from Harvard University in May 2021. Broadly, Sarah studies the role of organizations and institutions in perpetuating and addressing persistent inequality in the American political economy. Her research emphasizes lenses of federalism, state & bureaucratic politics, and American political development and has been published in State Politics and Policy Quarterly and the Russell Sage Journal for the Social Sciences. Her forthcoming book examines in the politics of policy failure. She has been a graduate fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy.
