<< Back to Faculty Christine Mahoney Professor of Public Policy and Politics and Director of Social Entrepreneurship @ UVA Education & Training Ph.D., 2006, Pennsylvania State University, Political Science Fields: American politics, Comparative politics, Research Methods & Statistical Analysis M.A., 2003, Pennsylvania State University, Political Science B.A., 2001, Pennsylvania State University, Major: International politics. 434-243-3727 cm2cg@virginia.edu Garrett Hall L020C Curriculum Vitae @CXMahoney Research Website SE@UVA Courses taught Political Institutions and Processes Leadership in the Public Arena Global Advocacy and Activism European Union Politics Experiential Social Entrepreneurship Areas of focus Advocacy Social Entrepreneurship UVA partners social entrepreneurship @ UVA Christine Mahoney is Professor of Public Policy and Politics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and Director of Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Virginia. She studies social justice advocacy, activism and direct action through social entrepreneurship. Her first book Brussels vs. the Beltway (Georgetown University Press) explored how advocates shape public policy in two of the most powerful political systems on the planet: the US and the EU. She conducted fieldwork in seven conflict zones in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America for her second book Failure and Hope: Fighting for the Rights of the Forcibly Displaced (Cambridge University Press). The book argues we need to advance social entrepreneurship for the 60 million people displaced by violent conflict worldwide. To help foster innovative solutions to social problems she launched and leads Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Virginia. Over the past three years the SE@UVA Initiative has introduced new courses on social entrepreneurship, a minor, a concept competition, scholarships to work with social enterprises and a myriad of student activities providing hands-on experience in social innovation. She was previously an Assistant Professor at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and the Director of the Center for European Studies and the Maxwell EU Center. She has been a Fulbright Fellow, Visiting Scholar at Oxford, a National Science Foundation grant recipient, and recipient of the Emerging Scholar award from the American Political Science Association. Related Content Alum in Action: Kathryn Babineau News Batten alum Kathryn Babineau (MPP ’13) is a Ph.D. student in the University of Virginia's sociology department, where she studies globalization, labor rights, and public and private regulation. 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Eight Years of Positive Impact with Social Entrepreneurship at UVA News In the last eight years, Social Entrepreneurship at UVA (SE@UVA), a Batten School initiative, has established itself as a leading research hub for students interested in leveraging their education to make a positive impact on society.
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University Faculty Learn How to Live More Connected Lives by Confronting Difficult Past News This past June, Batten professors Lucy Bassett and Andrew Pennock participated in the University’s Teaching Race at UVA seminar. Launched in the summer of 2018, the seminar which is an initiative of the Office of the Provost grew out of a desire to deepen faculty’s understanding of the University’s and greater Charlottesville’s complicated history with race.
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