Alec C. Ewald, PhD Biography
- Title:
- Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should People Who Have Completed Felony Sentences Be Allowed to Vote?"
- Reasoning:
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“[T]he case for barring people convicted of crime from voting is not a practical one at all, but a jumble of conjectures, ill-informed fears, and mystical images of the body politic, all piled on top of social theories three hundred years in age….
At a minimum, proponents of any restrictive policy in a modern democracy must explain how the proposed exclusion would strengthen our democracy and protect the public good. Advocates of disenfranchisement fail that test.”
“An Agenda for Demolition: The Fallacy and the Danger of the Subversive Voting Argument for Felony Disenfranchisement,” Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 2004
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Vermont, 2006-Present
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Union College, 2004-2006
- Expert Witness at request of counsel for Plaintiffs, Farrakhan v. Washington, provided written report on felon disenfranchisement, 2006
- Report Author, “A ‘Crazy-Quilt’ of Tiny Pieces: State and Local Administration of American Criminal Disenfranchisement Laws,” prepared for The Sentencing Project, 2005
- Grant recipient from The Sentencing Project for research on role of state and local officials in implementing disenfranchisement law, 2004
- Instructor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2001-2004
- University Fellowship, University of Massachusetts. Won funding for half-year release from teaching duties in university-wide competition; completed research and writing of “‘Civil Death’: The Ideological Paradox of Criminal Disenfranchisement Law in the United States,” Wisconsin Law Review, 2002
- Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, 2000-2001
- Congressional Quarterly Press Award, Best Paper by a Graduate Student, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, for “Getting Ready for Garza? Judge Emilio Garza, Civil Liberties, and the Politics of Judicial Selection,” 2000
- Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Political Science, University of North Carolina, 1999-2000
- History Teacher, The Putney School, Putney, Vermont, 1992-1998
- Education:
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- PhD, Political Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2005
- MA, Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000
- BA, Political Science and International Relations, Tufts University, 1992
- Other:
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