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From: "Roderick A. Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Jane Junn Talk, Thursday, 29 November, 3:30pm
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:44:08 -0600
From: "Dara Z. Strolovitch" <<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: November 28, 2007 9:21:23 AM CST
To: "Roderick A. Ferguson" <<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Jane Junn Talk, Thursday, 29 November, 3:30pm
Jane Junn, a candidate for a senior position in American Politics
in the Department of Political Science, will present her work this
*Thursday, 29 November, at 3:30pm* in Social Sciences 1314. Her
talk is titled "Immigrant Politics, American Style: The
Construction of Racial Political Identity." A brief biography of
Professor Junn is included below.
Jane Junn
(<http://fas-polisci.rutgers.edu/junn/>http://fas-polisci.rutgers.edu/junn/)
is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University,
where she holds a joint appointment with the Eagleton Institute of
Politics. Her current research focuses on the politics of
immigration and on political behavior and attitudes among American
minorities and immigrants. She was a member of the 2004 Social
Science Research Commission on National Elections following the
contested 2000 election, a member of a National Academies of
Science panel evaluating the redesign of the U.S. Naturalization
test, and a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Hanguk University of
Foreign Studies in Seoul, Korea. She is the co-author of two
books, Education and Democratic Citizenship in America (which won
the 1997 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award for the best book
published in political science in 1996) and Civic Education: What
Makes Students Learn, and has published several articles and
chapters on political participation. Her co-edited volume New Race
Politics: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Politics, will be
published by Cambridge University Press next year, and she is
currently working on a book on race and political participation in
the U.S., with emphasis on the dynamics of immigration and racial diversity.
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Dara Z. Strolovitch
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
p: 612.626.0213 :: web:
<http://www.polisci.umn.edu/people/profile.php?UID=dzs>http://www.polisci.umn.edu/people/profile.php?UID=dzs
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Roderick A. Ferguson
Associate Professor
Department of American Studies
College of Liberal Arts
104 Scott Hall
72 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis MN 55455
Direct: 612-626-8515
Office: 612-624-4190
Fax: 612-624-3858
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