Rate My Professor Jennifer Leigh Disney

Dr. Jennifer Leigh Disney is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, Philosophy, Religion & Legal Studies at Winthrop University, where she also serves as Director of the Model United Nations Program and Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. She completed her Ph.D. with distinction in 2002 at The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York (CUNY), along with M.A. and M.Phil. degrees from the same institution, and earned her B.A. from Western Maryland College. Disney served as the founding director of the Office of Nationally Competitive Awards at Winthrop from 2006 to 2012. Her dissertation, titled "The Theories and Practices of Women’s Organizing: Marxism, Feminism, Democratization, and Civil Society in Mozambique and Nicaragua," received the American Political Science Association (APSA) Women and Politics Best Dissertation Award in 2003. A paper based on two chapters of the dissertation was awarded the Christian Bay Award for the Best New Political Science Paper at APSA that same year. She authored the book Women’s Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua, published by Temple University Press in hardback in 2008 and paperback in 2010.