Sheryll Cashin, Professor of Law at Georgetown University, teaches Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Local Government Law, and Race and American Law among other subjects. She writes about race relations, government and inequality in America. Her new book, The Agitator's Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family (Public Affairs, 2008), covers the arc of U.S. race relations from slavery through the post-civil rights era. Her book, The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class are Undermining the American Dream (Public Affairs, 2004), received critical praise in The New York Times Book Review and The Chicago Tribune among other publications. Cashin has published widely in academic journals and written commentaries for several periodicals, including the L.A. Times, Washington Post, and Education Week.
Professor Cashin worked in the Clinton White House as an advisor on urban and economic policy, particularly concerning community development in inner-city neighborhoods. She was law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt University in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. As a Marshall Scholar, she went on to receive a masters in English Law with honors from Oxford University in 1986 and a J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School, in 1989, where she was a member of the Harvard Law Review. Cashin was born and raised in Huntsville, Alabama, where her parents were political activists.
Main Biography
