Heather N. Pool
I grew up in a small, rural town in Oklahoma. Eager to find my people, I went to St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Annapolis, Maryland. After graduating from college, I tried a lot of different jobs — landscaping, working in a small publishing house, driving trucks, working for a multimedia corporation in Washington, D.C., working for the City of New York as an investigator for the NYC Commission on Human Rights. After several beginnings that ended quickly, I attended the University of Washington-Seattle and completed my Ph.D. in Political Science, then moved to Ohio to begin my professional life at Denison. I live in Columbus with my partner, Lisa Clarke.
Learning & Teaching
- PPA 132: Introduction to Theorizing About Political Life
- PPA 201: Sophomore Seminar
- PPA 383: Contemporary Political Thought
- PPA 384: Black Political Thought
- PPA 385: American Political Thought
- PPA 375: Race and Law in the United States
- Assistant Professor, 2013-2019
- Associate Professor, 2019-Present
Research
Works
ORCiD
Heather Pool (0000-0002-2276-7355) - ORCID
Book
Heather Pool, Political Mourning: Identity and Responsibility in the Wake of Tragedy (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2021).
Book Reviews of Political Mourning: Mobilization: An International Quarterly (David McIvor, 2021); Political Science Quarterly (Jenn. M. Jackson, 2022); Law, Culture, and the Humanities (Lester Quinn, 2022); Socialism and Democracy (Barbara H. Chasin, 2022); Perspectives on Politics (Alexander Keller Hirsch, 2022)
Journal Articles
Heather Pool and Allison Rank, “Exposing the War on Women: The Limits of Law and Power of Care to Address Sexual Violence in Contemporary Crime Drama,” New Political Science 41:1 (March 2019), 36-54.
Heather Pool, “Mourning Emmett Till,” Law, Culture, and the Humanities 11:3 (October 2015), 414-444.
Allison Rank and Heather Pool, “Writing Better Writing Assignments,” PS: Political Science and Politics 47:3 (July 2014), 675-681.
Heather Pool, “The Politics of Mourning: The Triangle Fire and Political Belonging,” Polity 44:2 (April 2012), 182-211.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
Allison Rank and Heather Pool, “Building Worlds: Three Paths Toward Racial Justice in Black Panther,” in The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, eds. Nicholas Carnes and Lilly J Goren, 33-49. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2022.
Book Reviews of The Politics of the MCU: Foreign Policy (Daniel W. Drezner, 2023), The Journal of Popular Culture (Jessica Williams, 2023)
Heather Pool, “Removing the Confederate Flag in South Carolina in the Wake of Charleston: Sovereignty, Symbolism, and White Domination in a ‘Colorblind’ State,” in Democratic Arts of Mourning: Political Theory and Loss, eds. David McIvor and Alexander Hirsch, 41-64. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.
Book Reviews
Heather Pool, Book Review of American Mourning: Tragedy, Democracy, Resilience, Simon Stow (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), Political Theory 47:3 (2019), 429-434.
Heather Pool, “The Power of ‘We’: The Dialectics of Identities and Institutions,” Review of How Americans Make Race: Stories, Institutions, Spaces, Clarissa Rile Hayward (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014), Journal of Political Power, 8:1(2015), 145-152.
Works in Progress
Allison Rank and Heather Pool. Gender, Power, and the State in Pop Culture. (book manuscript — book proposal under review)
Allison Rank and Heather Pool, “Expanding Perceptions of Harm: Examining Institution-based Gaslighting through Unbelievable” (under review)
Service
- Association for Political Theory
- American Political Science Association
- Western Political Science Association
Other
- Bowen Fellowship, Spring 2024
