{"id":171,"date":"2019-04-18T20:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/mfp50\/?page_id=171"},"modified":"2019-06-18T18:09:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T18:09:52","slug":"alumni-accomplishments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/mfp50\/alumni-accomplishments\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Accomplishments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><a href=\"#pubs\">Publications <\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><a href=\"#career\">Career Highlights <\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><a href=\"#grants\">Grants &amp; Fellowships<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><u><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">\u2666 <\/span>Accomplishments published in PS <span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">\u2666<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;height: 77px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 39px\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 39px;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/ps-political-science-and-politics\/article\/briefs\/BD58419191823DE183DC59EE5F7A03DE\">July 2017<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 39px;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/76B89D5E3A880548DB52D8A15379886C\/S1049096514001991a.pdf\/briefs.pdf\">January 2015<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 28px;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/0416815D31FF2572AAD5006C429277C9\/S1049096516002663a.pdf\/briefs.pdf\">January 2017<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 28px\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/2B96D41E22FF6F33999ECF827E555E83\/S1049096515000050a.pdf\/rbsi_and_mfp_alumni_academic_and_professional_updates.pdf\">April 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 10px\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 10px;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/2AC0447C2AC2BA79E98238C254ADC9F2\/S1049096516001815a.pdf\/briefs.pdf\">October 2016<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 10px\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/F7D0A78526708076033CA99717EDA44C\/S1049096514000535a.pdf\/ps_notes.pdf\">April 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\"><strong><a id=\"pubs\"><\/a> Publications (Listed by MFP Class) <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Class of 1987<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Marion Orr<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Co-edited <a href=\"http:\/\/tupress.temple.edu\/book\/20000000008379\"><em>Latino Mayors Political Change in the Postindustrial City<\/em><\/a> (Temple University Press).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Class of 1988<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Sherri Wallace<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/American-Politics-and-the-African-American-Quest-for-Universal-Freedom\/Walton-Smith-Wallace\/p\/book\/9781138658141\">American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom<\/a><\/em>, 8e (Routledge, 2017), published with Hanes Walton, Jr., Robert C. Smith and Sherri L. Wallace.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Class of 1993<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>David Shirk<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">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.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Latest book is entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9781442220263\/Contemporary-Mexican-Politics-Third-Edition\"><em>Contemporary Mexican Politics<\/em><\/a>, co-authored with Emily Edmonds-Poli.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Class of 2008<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>\u00a0Rachel Gillum<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Published first book: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.umich.edu\/9765804\/muslims_in_a_post_9_11_america\">Muslims in a Post-9\/11 America: A Survey of Attitudes and Beliefs and Their Implications for U.S. National Security Policy<\/a>.<\/em> (University of Michigan Press).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Contributed a chapter in: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/tupress.temple.edu\/book\/20000000009772\">Understanding Muslim Political Life in America: (Contested) Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century.<\/a><\/em> (Eds. Brian Calfano and Nazita Lajevardi.) Temple University Press (Forthcoming 2019).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Recent article: \u201c<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/115\/45\/11483\">Multidimensional measure of immigrant integration<\/a><\/em>&#8221; (with David Laitin, Jens Hainmueller, Duncan Lawrence, and Lucila Figueroa) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) (October 2018).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Class of 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vanessa Cruz Nichols<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cruz Nichols, V. and Garibaldo Valdez, R. (forthcoming 2019) \u201cNot With a Bang\u2026: Untangling Racialized Threat in Latina\/o Mobilization.\u201d PS: Political Science and Politics.<\/li>\n<li>Reny, T., B. Wilcox-Archuleta, and V. Cruz Nichols. (2018). \u201cThreat, Mobilization, and Latino Voting in the 2018 Election.\u201d The Forum<\/li>\n<li>Cruz Nichols, V., A. M.W. LeBr\u00f3n and F. I. Pedraza. (2018). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/ps-political-science-and-politics\/article\/policing-us-sick-the-health-of-latinos-in-an-era-of-heightened-deportations-and-racialized-policing\/48270B1CA4A20A8D5850B185A42A0B31\/core-reader\">\u201cPolicing Us Sick: The Health of Latinos in an Era of Heightened Deportations and Racialized Policing.\u201d<\/a> PS: Political Science and Politics<\/li>\n<li>Cruz Nichols, V., A. M.W. LeBr\u00f3n and F. I. Pedraza. (2018).<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/puar.12916\"> \u201cSpillover Effects: Immigrant Policing and Government Skepticism in Matters of Health for Latinos.\u201d<\/a> Public Administration Review<\/li>\n<li>Cruz Nichols, V., A. M.W. LeBr\u00f3n and F. I. Pedraza. (2018). \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9781498550932\/Policing-and-Race-in-America-Economic-Political-and-Social-Dynamics\">Policy Feedback: Government Skepticism Trickling from Immigration to Matters of Health\u201d in Policing and Race in America: Economic, Political and Social Dynamics.<\/a> Edited by James Ward. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.<\/li>\n<li>Pedraza, Francisco I., V. Cruz Nichols and A. M.W. LeBr\u00f3n. (2017). <a href=\"https:\/\/read.dukeupress.edu\/jhppl\/article\/42\/5\/925\/131418\">\u201cCautious Citizenship: The Deterring Effect of Immigration Issue Salience on Health Care Use and Bureaucratic Interactions Among Latino U.S. Citizens.\u201d<\/a> Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Class of 2010<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Tanika Raychaudhuri<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Published <em>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/21565503.2018.1494009\">The social roots of Asian American partisan preferences<\/a>\u201d<\/em> (Journal of Politics, Groups, and Identities).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\"><strong><a id=\"career\"><\/a>Career Highlights\u00a0(Listed by MFP Class) <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Class of 1987<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Marion Orr<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Commencement Speaker Savannah State University, May 2018.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Class of 1988<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Sherri Wallace<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Program co-chair for the 2019 Teaching and Learning Mini-Conference at APSA (TLC at APSA) in August.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Co-Team Leader for \u201cTeaching Intersectionality in Political Science\u201d for the Diversity and Inclusion Hackathon, sponsored by the APSA Presidential Task Force on Women\u2019s Advancement, held at the 2018 APSA Annual Meeting.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Class of 1992 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Michelle Boyd<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Co-Founder of WriteOut! (2012).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Graduate Student Writing Retreat Program.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">InkWell Academic Writing Retreat Facilitator.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Class of 1993<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>\u00a0David Shirk<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">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.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Class of 1996<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>\u00a0Diego von Vacano<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Received tenure in 2012.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Fellow at IAS Princeton and CASBS Stanford.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Class of 2005<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Leslie Gonzalez<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Tenured professor that has published in several selective journals in the field of higher education.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Class of 2006<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Katherine Woolfalk <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Promotion to board-facing Executive Leadership Team.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Class of 2007<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>\u00a0Betina Wilkinson<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Recently awarded tenure at Wake Forest university.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Serves as President of the MPSA Latina\/o Caucus and serves on the MPSA Executive Council.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Class of 2010<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Chinbo Chong<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Earn PhD in June 2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Received 2019 Best Graduate Student Paper Award by MPSA\u2019s Latino\/a Caucus. (paper published in Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Edgar Alfonseca<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Deputy Director in the New York City Department of Education.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Class of 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>\u00a0Olivia Cook <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Co-Chair &#8211; Alabama Women Student Leaders Conference<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Advisory Board Member &#8211; Women&#8217;s Leadership Institute at Auburn University.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Presentations: \u201cWhat is the Most Important Skill to Learn?\u201d Presented at the American Society for Public Administration Conference, Washington, D.C., March 8-12, 2019. \u201cHow Failure Conditions Success: Learning How to Trust the Process\u201d (with Shanel Robinson, M.S.). Presented at the Alabama Women Student Leaders Conference, Troy, Alabama, March 2, 2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Co-founder of a new startup company located in Alabama called Snippety Snap, LLC.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Rachel Torres<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Instructor for own course within affiliated department.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\"><strong><a id=\"grants\"><\/a>Grants and Fellowships (Listed by MFP Class)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Class of 1992<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>\u00a0Michelle Boyd<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Earned National Science Foundation Advance Grant.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Class of 2005<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>\u00a0Leslie Gonzales<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Earned a $10-million-dollar National Science Foundation Grant.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Class of 2010<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Chinbo Chong<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Post-Doctoral position at Princeton University\u2019s Center for the Study of Democratic Politics 2019-2020.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>David Lopez<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Recently accepted offer as a NYU Provost&#8217;s Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-2021.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Class of 2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Angie Torres-Beltran <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Selected as Dean\u2019s excellence Fellow and a Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies Graduate Fellow at Cornell University.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publications Career Highlights Grants &amp; Fellowships \u2666 Accomplishments published in PS \u2666 July 2017 January 2015 January 2017 April 2015 October 2016 April 2014 Publications (Listed by MFP Class) Class of 1987 Marion Orr Co-edited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27078,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-171","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/mfp50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/mfp50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/mfp50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/mfp50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27078"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/mfp50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/mfp50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/mfp50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}