Bartholomew Sparrow

Sparrow studies American political development and, in particular, the conjunction between the American state and the international system. He teaches courses on American territorial expansion, American political institutions and processes (graduate), American politics and government (introductory), political communication, and the politics of food in America. He has received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and Harry S. Truman Library Institute. He has been awarded the Leonard D. White and the Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha prizes from the American Political Science Association. He has been recognized as one of the Texas Ten, 2018, an “annual list of inspiring professors, nominated by alumni and selected by the Alcalde magazine,” and received the Department of Government’s “2017 Graduate Student Outstanding Faculty Award for Distinguished Service to Graduate Students.”