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Twiley W. Barker
BornJanuary 29, 1926
University of Illinois at Chicago

Twiley W. Barker, Jr. (January 29, 1926 – July 13, 2009) was an American

University of Illinois at Chicago
, were he worked from 1962 to 1994.

Life and career

Barker was born on January 29, 1926,

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1955.[3] From 1955 to 1960, he taught at Southern Illinois University, and in 1962 he moved to the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he worked until his retirement in 1994.[3] In addition to being a founding member of that department, Barker was undergraduate director for two decades, and helped set up the pre-law program there.[3]

Barker's scholarship focused on constitutional law and judicial politics in the United States. For example, he wrote a comparative analysis on the first terms of Clarence Thomas and Thurgood Marshall.[3] In 1970, he and his brother Lucius Barker coauthored the textbook Civil Liberties and the Constitution.[4] This textbook had been published in 9 editions by 2020, and is considered a classic textbook on the structure of the American legal system.[5]

Barker was particularly noted as an instructor and a mentor, and his students included Carol Moseley Braun and Tony Podesta.[3] In 1966 Barker won his university's highest teaching award, the UIC Silver Circle Award.[3] He also won the 1969 E. Harris Harbison Prize from the Danforth Foundation for "unusual accomplishments in college teaching".[3]

In addition to his academic work, Barker was also involved in local activism; for example, he worked against inequitable gentrification of his Chicago neighborhood, Groveland Park.[2] He had two children.[2] He died on July 13, 2009,[2] having remained Professor Emeritus of Political Science at University of Illinois at Chicago.[6]

Selected works

  • Civil Liberties and the Constitution, with Lucius Barker (1970)[4]

Selected awards

  • UIC Silver Circle Award (1966)[3]
  • E. Harris Harbison Prize, Danforth Foundation (1969)[3]

References

  1. ^ Finley, Larry (22 July 2009). "Stated UIUC Political Science Department". Chicago Sun-Times.
  2. ^
    The Chicago Tribune
    . Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  3. ^
    doi:10.1017/S1049096509990333
    .
  4. ^ a b "A Giant in Mentoring Political Leaders: Lucius Barker, 1928-2020". Social Science Space. July 2020. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  5. ^ Schudel, Matt (June 27, 2020). "Lucius J. Barker, political scientist who studied race and civil liberties, dies at 92". The Washington Post. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  6. ^ "Interview with Twiley W. Barker, July 25, 1991". Kentucky Oral History Project. 25 July 1991. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
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