The Department welcomes Professor Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey to its core faculty. Dr. Bonnette-Bailey comes to AAS with a variety of professional experience and a national reputation as a scholar. She joins our faculty with the rank of Associate Professor after 10 years of service in our university’s Department of Political Science. Dr. Bonnette-Bailey will continue relationship with Political Sciences as affiliate faculty. Her research interests include popular culture, political behavior, Black women and politics, political attitudes, African-American politics, political psychology and public opinion and she teaches courses on related to these subject areas.
Dr. Bonnette-Bailey completed her undergraduate studies at Winthrop University where she attended the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute at Duke University and the Ralph Bunche Summer Humanities Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed her doctoral degree in the Department of Political Science at The Ohio State University, where her research examined the political impact of rap music on Black political attitudes.
She is a productive and interdisciplinary researcher. Professor Bonnette-Bailey’s first single authored book, Pulse of the People: Rap Music and Black Political Attitudes was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press (2015). She has also written numerous articles and book chapters including “Behind the Music: Black Political Attitudes and Political Rap Music,” and “Free your Mind: Contemporary Racial Attitudes and Post-racial Theory” (with Sarah Gershon and Precious Hall)”. Professor Bonnette-Bailey hosted the conference Behind the Music: Hip Hop and Social Justice in 2017, the first conference at Georgia State University to examine the ways in which social justice is addressed and expressed within Hip Hop culture. Dr. Bonnette-Bailey was awarded the prestigious Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellowship at the W.E.B. DuBois Fellows Program in African-American Studies at Harvard University in 2018.
Dr. Bonnette-Bailey is a Pre-PhD faculty associate in CASA, a university initiative to inform undergraduate students of opportunities for placement in PhD programs, law and medical schools. She has also been active in faculty governance through the University Senate.
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