About Professor Fredette

Professor Fredette comes to UAlbany from Seattle, by way of the University of Washington. Her research addresses law and society themes such as law and identity, legal consciousness, and legal mobilization, as well as political theory’s concerns with justice and democracy. A comparativist by training, Professor Fredette studied at Sciences Po-Paris in 2006, and was a visiting research fellow at Sciences Po-Bordeaux in 2008. Her dissertation, entitled “Muslim and French: Plural identity and today’s elite republican discourse in France,” explores the disconnect between how Muslims and French elites discuss citizenship, identity, and belonging. Professor Fredette received her MA in political science (“What Not to Wear,” winner of the Stuart Scheingold Award for Best Public Law Paper) from the University of Washington, and her BA in French and Political Science from the University of the Pacific in her native, sunny California.