Paul Frymer

Acting Director, Program in Law and Public Affairs
Associate Professor of Politics

243 Corwin Hall
pfrymer@princeton.edu
phone: 609-258-9080 ; fax: 609-258-0922
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Paul Frymer is Associate Professor of Politics and for 2009-2010, the Acting Director of LAPA. He teaches and writes on topics in American law and politics, particularly as they intersect with issues of democratic representation, race and civil rights, and labor and employment. He is a former LAPA fellow (2004-2005), and prior to teaching at Princeton, he taught at both UC Santa Cruz and UC San Diego. Born in New York City, he grew up in San Jose, California, received a BA and JD from University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.

He is the author of two books: Uneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America and Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party, both of which were published by Princeton University Press. He has also either authored or is currently writing about topics ranging from legal understandings of political parties to the racial politics of Hurricane Katrina and affirmative action to the role of law in the historical development of American territorial expansion.