Author: Margaret Groarke
Alternate names: Margaret Mary Groarke
Title: Ph.D.
Dates: October 2009
Bio: Margarent Groarke received a degree in Social Studies from Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges in 1984. After graduating, she worked as a community organizer for the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition. She married in 1995. She received her doctorate degree in Political Science from the City University of New York in 2000. She is currently assistant professor of government at Manhattan College, in the Bronx, NY. and director of the college's Peace Studies Program. Her first co-authored Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters, was published in 2009.