Education & Professional History
Carleton College, Department of Political Science, 1991-Present.
DIS – Danish Study Abroad Program, Visiting Faculty, European Political Studies Program, 2007-08.
Carleton College, Program in American Studies, Director, 2004-07.
Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Chicago Urban Studies Program, Visiting Professor, Fall 2001.
University of Denver, Department of Political Science, 1989-91.
Highlights & Recent Activity
Technos International Education Week, Carleton College Faculty Representative. Technos College, Tokyo, Japan. June, 2019.
“Subverting the American Dream: New White Flight from US High Schools.” Le Monde Diplomatique,September 2020. This article has been translated and published in French and German.
Urban Politics in the United States
Racial and Ethnic Politics in the United States
Global Urban Political Economy
Politics and Culture of Suburbia
American Social Policy: Education, Housing, & Poverty
“Disunited States of America: Who Really Holds the Power in the US?” Le Monde Diplomatique (January 2021).
“George Floyd’s Death Expression of US Inequalities: Being Black and Poor in Minneapolis.” Le Monde Diplomatique, July 2020. This article has been translated and published in French, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian, and Japanese.
“Urban Regime Change: A Silver Lining for Scandals.” Urban Affairs Review 51:4 (2015), 504-532.
“The Obama Vote: White Voters Could Give the Lie to the Polls,” Le Monde, Diplomatique, November 2008.
“Take Me Out to the Ball Game, but Only If You’re Rich.” Le Monde Diplomatique, July 2008.
“Philadelphia’s Evolving Biracial Coalition.” In Rufus Browning, Dale Rogers Marshall, and David Tabb, editors, Racial Politics in American Cities (New York: Addison Wesley, 2003, third edition).
“Ya Don’t Have to Get Snippy About It: Sports Stadium Politics in Minnesota.” In S. Hoffman, et al., Perspectives on Minnesota Government and Politics, 5 (Pearson, 2003).
“Political Machines,” Oxford Companion to Politics of the World, 2nd edition (Oxford University Press, 2001).
Minority Politics at the Millennium. (New York: Garland Press, 2000), Richard A. Keiser and Katherine Underwood, eds.
“Three Decades of Changing Minority Group Opportunities.” In Richard A. Keiser and Katherine Underwood, eds. Minority Politics at the Millennium (New York: Garland Press, 2000).
“White Backlash, Black Power and Shades of Gray.” In Richard A. Keiser and Katherine Underwood, eds. Minority Politics at the Millennium (New York: Garland Press, 2000).
Empowerment or Subordination? African-American Leadership and the Struggle for Urban Political Power. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
“After the First Black Mayor: Fault Lines in Philadelphia’s Biracial Coalition.” In Rufus Browning, Dale Rogers Marshall, and David Tabb, editors, Racial Politics in American Cities: Blacks and Hispanics in the United States — Political Mobilization, Power and Prospects (New York: Longman, 1997, second edition).
“Chicago Politics, Canceled Model.” Urban Affairs Quarterly 30:1 (September 1994).
“Explaining African-American Political Empowerment: ‘Windy City’ Politics From 1900 to 1983.” Urban Affairs Quarterly 29:1(September 1993).
“The Rise of a Biracial Coalition in Philadelphia.” In Rufus Browning, Dale Rogers Marshall, and David Tabb, editors, Racial Politics in American Cities: Blacks and Hispanics in the United States — Political Mobilization, Power and Prospects (New York: Longman, 1990).
“Black Political Power: Co-opted in Chicago, Incorporated in Philadelphia.” Public Affairs Report 30:5 (Institute of Governmental Studies: University of California, Berkeley, September 1989).
