Mala htun biography

American political scientist

Mala Htun is an Americanpolitical scientist, currently a professor of political science at the University of New Mexico. Htun studies comparative politics, particularly women's rights and the politics of race and ethnicity with a focus on Latin America.

Education and early career

Htun studied International Relations at Stanford University, graduating with an AB in ^[2] She then studied political science at Harvard University, obtaining an AM in and a PhD in ^[2][3] Htun's PhD dissertation, Private Lives, Public Policies: Divorce, Abortion, and Family Equality in Latin America, won the Best Dissertation Prize from the Women and Politics section of the American Political Science Association.^[4]

From until , Htun was a professor of political science at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College.^[2][3] During this time she was also a Fellow of the Radcliffe Inst