Lorraine C. Minnite has taught American and urban politics at Barnard College since 2000. Prior to that she was the Associate Director of the Center for Urban Research and Policy at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. Her research is concerned with issues of equality, social and racial justice, political conflict and institutional change. Professor Minnite has consulted with various labor, advocacy, and governmental organizations, and political campaigns which have relied on her expertise in public policy and demographic patterns in New York City. An experienced survey researcher, she has published on various aspects of political participation, immigration, voting behavior and urban politics. Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of the American Voter (February 2009), co-authored with Frances Fox Piven and Margaret Groarke, argues that political parties compete by suppressing the vote as much if not more than they do in reaching out to mobilize voters. A second book on contemporary American electoral politics called The Politics of Voter Fraud is forthcoming. Professor Minnite holds a B.A. in History from Boston University, and an M.A and Ph.D. in Political Science from the City University of New York.
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3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027-6598
Tel: 212.854.4385; Fax: 212.854.3024; E-mail: lcm25@columbia.edu
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Spring
Research Interests
American politics
New York City and urban politics and policy
State and local government
Immigration, voting rights and representation
Race, ethnicity and class
Social movements.
Courses
Education
Ph.D. City University of New York (CUNY), Political Science, February 2000
Dissertation cum laude: "Identity, Voting Rights and the Remapping of Political Representation: A Case Study of New York City's 1991 Redistricting."
M.Phil. CUNY, Political Science, 1994
M.A. CUNY, Political Science, 1992
B.A. cum laude Boston University, College of Liberal Arts, History, 1983
Awards, Honors and Grants
Carnegie Corporation of New York, Special Opportunities Fund Grant Recipient, 2007
Senior Fellow, Demos: A Network of Ideas and Action, 2006-2008
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University, 2002 to present
Member, Working Group on New York's Recovery from 9-11, Russell Sage Foundation, 2002 to 2005
Curriculum Development Award, Barnard Project on Diaspora and Migration, 2000
Recent Publications
Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of the American Voter, New York: The New Press, February 2009; co-authored with Frances Fox Piven and Margaret Groarke.
"Environmental Risk and Childhood Disease in an Urban Working Class Caribbean Neighborhood," in Sherrie L. Baver, ed., Beyond Sun and Sand: Caribbean Environmentalisms, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005; co-authored with Immanuel Ness.
"Between Anglo and Black: Asian and Latina/o Political Participation in New York City," in Jessica Perez-Monforti and William E. Nelson, Jr., eds., Black and Latino/a Politics: Issues in Political Development in the United States, Miami: Barnhardt and Ash, 2005; co-authored with John Mollenkopf.
"Outside the Circle: The Impact of Post-9/11 Responses on the Immigrant Communities of New York City," in John H. Mollenkopf, ed., Contentious City: The Politics of Recovery in New York City, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005.
The Politics of Voter Fraud, A Report to Project Vote, March 2007.
"The Changing Arab New York Community," in Kathleen Benson and Philip M. Kayal, eds., A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2002; co-authored with Louis Abdellatif Cristillo.
Curriculum vitæ: May 2009
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