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Cynthia Boaz serves as Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science at Sonoma State University, where she has been a faculty member since Fall 2008. She concurrently holds roles as department Internship Coordinator, campus representative for the Truman Scholarship Foundation, and affiliated scholar with UNESCO's Peace, Conflict and Development Studies Program at Universitat Jaume I in Spain.
Her educational background features a PhD from the University of California at Davis (2003), following which she taught at SUNY Brockport (2004-2008) before joining Sonoma State.
Boaz's research centers on reproductive rights, civil resistance, and quality of democracy, with notable exploration of political communication, gender politics, and science fiction's political dimensions. Her scholarship examines how nonviolent strategies operate within oppressive systems and analyzes abortion policy impacts on women's wellbeing, often connecting historical suffrage movements to contemporary reproductive justice struggles. The intersection of speculative fiction with international power structures forms another distinctive research thread.
Her 2010-2022 publications reveal consistent thematic evolution from foundational nonviolent conflict theory toward urgent reproductive rights analysis, particularly following the Dobbs decision. The work spans interdisciplinary domains including political science, gender studies, peace research, and media analysis, frequently applying civil resistance frameworks to current sociopolitical challenges while maintaining historical perspective.
Boaz has advised MA and PhD students through UNESCO's Spanish program and mentored Sonoma State's award-winning Model UN delegation (2010-2022). Her external engagements include 16 years as academic advisor to the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (2005-2020) and repeated instruction roles at the Fletcher Summer Institute and James Lawson Institute, collaborating with movement veterans from South Africa, Serbia, Burma, and the US Civil Rights Movement.
She maintains active involvement with Corazon Healdsburg (board member since February 2023) and contributes to media outlets including Truthout and Huffington Post. Fluent in Spanish, French, and Russian with conversational Irish, her international work spans conferences in India, Australia, Chile, and Spain.
