Whitney Taylor

Dr . Whitney K. Taylor (PhD, Cornell University) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University.  She teaches courses in comparative politics. Her research focuses on the intersection of rights, law, and contentious politics. She is the author of The Social Constitution: Embedding Social Rights Through Legal Mobilization (2023), Claim-Making in Comparative Perspective (2024, with Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner and Janice Gallagher), and Law, Mobilization, and Social Movements (2024, with Sidney Tarrow). Her research has also appeared in Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics​, ​Global Constitutionalism, Government & Opposition, Human Rights Quarterly, Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, and Sociological Perspectives. Her website can be found here.