Publications
Career Highlights
Grants & Fellowships
♦ Accomplishments published in PS ♦
July 2017 | January 2015 |
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October 2016 |
Publications (Listed by MFP Class)
Class of 1987
Marion Orr
- Co-edited Latino Mayors Political Change in the Postindustrial City (Temple University Press).
Class of 1988
Sherri Wallace
- American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom, 8e (Routledge, 2017), published with Hanes Walton, Jr., Robert C. Smith and Sherri L. Wallace.
Class of 1993
David Shirk
- Authored, co-authored, and co-edited 12 books, over 30 book chapters and journal articles, and dozens of published policy reports and op-ed pieces.
- Latest book is entitled Contemporary Mexican Politics, co-authored with Emily Edmonds-Poli.
Class of 2008
Rachel Gillum
- Published first book: Muslims in a Post-9/11 America: A Survey of Attitudes and Beliefs and Their Implications for U.S. National Security Policy. (University of Michigan Press).
- Contributed a chapter in: Understanding Muslim Political Life in America: (Contested) Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century. (Eds. Brian Calfano and Nazita Lajevardi.) Temple University Press (Forthcoming 2019).
- Recent article: “Multidimensional measure of immigrant integration” (with David Laitin, Jens Hainmueller, Duncan Lawrence, and Lucila Figueroa) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) (October 2018).
Class of 2009
Vanessa Cruz Nichols
- Cruz Nichols, V. and Garibaldo Valdez, R. (forthcoming 2019) “Not With a Bang…: Untangling Racialized Threat in Latina/o Mobilization.” PS: Political Science and Politics.
- Reny, T., B. Wilcox-Archuleta, and V. Cruz Nichols. (2018). “Threat, Mobilization, and Latino Voting in the 2018 Election.” The Forum
- Cruz Nichols, V., A. M.W. LeBrón and F. I. Pedraza. (2018). “Policing Us Sick: The Health of Latinos in an Era of Heightened Deportations and Racialized Policing.” PS: Political Science and Politics
- Cruz Nichols, V., A. M.W. LeBrón and F. I. Pedraza. (2018). “Spillover Effects: Immigrant Policing and Government Skepticism in Matters of Health for Latinos.” Public Administration Review
- Cruz Nichols, V., A. M.W. LeBrón and F. I. Pedraza. (2018). “Policy Feedback: Government Skepticism Trickling from Immigration to Matters of Health” in Policing and Race in America: Economic, Political and Social Dynamics. Edited by James Ward. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
- Pedraza, Francisco I., V. Cruz Nichols and A. M.W. LeBrón. (2017). “Cautious Citizenship: The Deterring Effect of Immigration Issue Salience on Health Care Use and Bureaucratic Interactions Among Latino U.S. Citizens.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Class of 2010
Tanika Raychaudhuri
- Published “The social roots of Asian American partisan preferences” (Journal of Politics, Groups, and Identities).
Career Highlights (Listed by MFP Class)
Class of 1987
Marion Orr
- Commencement Speaker Savannah State University, May 2018.
Class of 1988
Sherri Wallace
- Program co-chair for the 2019 Teaching and Learning Mini-Conference at APSA (TLC at APSA) in August.
- Co-Team Leader for “Teaching Intersectionality in Political Science” for the Diversity and Inclusion Hackathon, sponsored by the APSA Presidential Task Force on Women’s Advancement, held at the 2018 APSA Annual Meeting.
Class of 1992
Michelle Boyd
- Co-Founder of WriteOut! (2012).
- Graduate Student Writing Retreat Program.
- InkWell Academic Writing Retreat Facilitator.
Class of 1993
David Shirk
- Secured more than $7 million in research and educational grants from both public and private sources, including the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, and the Smith-Richardson Foundation.
Class of 1996
Diego von Vacano
- Received tenure in 2012.
- Fellow at IAS Princeton and CASBS Stanford.
Class of 2005
Leslie Gonzalez
- Tenured professor that has published in several selective journals in the field of higher education.
Class of 2006
Katherine Woolfalk
- Promotion to board-facing Executive Leadership Team.
Class of 2007
Betina Wilkinson
- Recently awarded tenure at Wake Forest university.
- Serves as President of the MPSA Latina/o Caucus and serves on the MPSA Executive Council.
Class of 2010
Chinbo Chong
- Earn PhD in June 2019.
- Received 2019 Best Graduate Student Paper Award by MPSA’s Latino/a Caucus. (paper published in Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics)
Edgar Alfonseca
- Deputy Director in the New York City Department of Education.
Class of 2017
Olivia Cook
- Co-Chair – Alabama Women Student Leaders Conference
- Advisory Board Member – Women’s Leadership Institute at Auburn University.
- Presentations: “What is the Most Important Skill to Learn?” Presented at the American Society for Public Administration Conference, Washington, D.C., March 8-12, 2019. “How Failure Conditions Success: Learning How to Trust the Process” (with Shanel Robinson, M.S.). Presented at the Alabama Women Student Leaders Conference, Troy, Alabama, March 2, 2019.
- Co-founder of a new startup company located in Alabama called Snippety Snap, LLC.
Rachel Torres
- Instructor for own course within affiliated department.
Grants and Fellowships (Listed by MFP Class)
Class of 1992
Michelle Boyd
- Earned National Science Foundation Advance Grant.
Class of 2005
Leslie Gonzales
- Earned a $10-million-dollar National Science Foundation Grant.
Class of 2010
Chinbo Chong
- Post-Doctoral position at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Democratic Politics 2019-2020.
David Lopez
- Recently accepted offer as a NYU Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-2021.
Class of 2018
Angie Torres-Beltran
- Selected as Dean’s excellence Fellow and a Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies Graduate Fellow at Cornell University.