Alfred Walter Negley Professor of Political Science ∙ Sewanee: the University of the South
Andrea C. Hatcher is the Alfred Walter Negley Professor of Politics and is the Director of the Pre-Law Program at the University of the South, where she teaches courses in American political institutions, constitutional law, and religion and politics.
She earned her Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University where she trained in the study of Congress. Her book Majority Leadership in the U.S. Senate: Balancing Constraints (Cambria Press, 2010) is the first comprehensive study of the office of Senate Majority Leader. Her research has turned to religion and politics, particularly the comparative political behaviors of American and British Evangelicals on which she published Political and Religious Identities of British Evangelicals (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
Fellowship Project: Andrea will oversee various activities related to the recruitment and retention of faculty of diverse backgrounds at Sewanee. Her responsibilities will include researching and recommending inclusive hiring and retention practices, supporting initiatives to address salary equity, contributing to efforts ensuring equity in promotion and tenure expectations across departments and designing and implementing activities for the cohort program for new tenure-track hires.