Dr. Mary McThomas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate classes. Her research interests include the interplay of laws and social norms, and the role of individual rights and rights-claiming in a pluralistic society. She has written on the right to privacy; looking at the constitutional development of privacy as a fundamental right, public attitudes towards privacy rights, and theoretical notions of autonomy and the public/private divide. She is currently working on issues of public articulations of justice and civil disobedience.
Dr. McThomas teaches classes on Judicial Process and Constitutional Law; Political Theory - including such classes as Normative Political Analysis and American Political Thought; and Gender & Politics.
She received her PhD and MA in Political Science from University of California, Los Angeles and her BA in Political Science from University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Office: 113 Bowen Hall
Phone: 662-325-7864
Her e-mail is MMcThomas@ps.msstate.edu