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JANE JUNN Department of Political Science University of Southern California 327 Vonkleinsmid Center Los Angeles, CA 90089 E-Mail: Junn@Usc.Edu Phone: 908.399.6186 JANE JUNN Department of Political Science University of Southern California 327 VonKleinSmid Center Los Angeles, CA 90089 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 908.399.6186 ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT 1993 – 1994 Rutgers University, Instructor of Political Science 1994 – 2000 Rutgers University, Assistant Professor of Political Science 2003 Columbia University Teachers College, Sussman Visiting Professor 2000 – 2009 Rutgers University, Associate Professor of Political Science 2002 – 2009 Rutgers University, Research Professor, Eagleton Institute of Politics 2009 Rutgers University, Professor of Political Science 2009 – present University of Southern California, Professor of Political Science OTHER PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS & APPOINTMENTS 1999 Senior Scientist, Knowledge Networks, Palo Alto, California 2000 – 2004 Director, Assessing Quality of University Education and Research, Association of American Universities, Washington, DC 2007 – 2008 Program Co-Chair, American Political Science Association 2008 – 2009 Faculty Director, Rutgers-Eagleton Poll 2009 – 2010 Vice President, American Political Science Association (APSA) 2009 – 2010 Administrative Committee, APSA Council 2009 – 2010 Research Director, USC College-Los Angeles Times Poll 2016 – 2017 Co-President, APSA Race, Ethnicity and Politics organized section 2017 – 2018 Vice President, Western Political Science Association (WPSA) 2018 – 2019 President, Western Political Science Association (WPSA) 2018 – 2020 Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics EDUCATION 1985 A.B., University of Michigan, with honors in Political Science 1987 M.A, University of Chicago, Department of Political Science 1994 Ph.D., University of Chicago, Department of Political Science HONORS 1997 Winner, Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book published in political science 1998 Fulbright Senior Scholar, Hanguk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea 2003 Outstanding Teacher Award, Columbia University Teachers College 2014 Winner, Ralph Bunche Book Award from the APSA Jane Junn c.v. October 2018, page 1 SCHOLARSHIP BOOKS Education and Democratic Citizenship in America, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press) 1996, with Norman H. Nie and Kenneth Stehlik-Barry, awarded the Woodrow Wilson Foundation book award for the best book published in political science during 1996. Civic Education: What Makes Students Learn, (New Haven: Yale University Press) 1998, with Richard G. Niemi. New Race Politics: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press) 2008, edited with Kerry L. Haynie. Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constitutents and their Political Identities, (New York: Russell Sage Foundation) 2011, with Janelle Wong, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Taeku Lee. The Politics of Belonging: Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration (Chicago: University of Chicago Press) 2013, with Natalie Masuoka, awarded the Ralph Bunche book award for the best book that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism published in political science during 2013. Women Voters: Race, Gender and Dynamism in U.S. Elections, manuscript in progress. JOURNAL ARTICLES “What Knowledge for a Reinforced Citizenship in the United States of America?” with Richard G. Niemi, Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, December 1996, pp. 663-72. “Participation in Liberal Democracy: The Political Assimilation of Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in the U.S.,” The American Behavioral Scientist June/July 1999, pp. 1416-1437. “Diversity, Immigration and the Politics of Civic Education,” PS, 37:2 (April 2004) 253-255. “Square Pegs and Round Holes: Challenges of Fitting Individual-Level Analysis to a Theory of Politicized Context of Gender,” Politics and Gender, 3:1 (March 2007) 124-134. “Old Friends and New Alliances: How the 2004 Illinois Senate Race Complicates the Study of Race and Religion,” with Melissa V. Harris-Lacewell, Journal of Black Studies, 38:1 (September 2007) 30-50. “From Coolie to Model Minority: U.S. Immigration Policy and the Construction of Racial Identity,” DuBois Review, 4:2 (Fall 2007) 355-373. “Identities in Context: Politicized Racial Group Consciousness Among Asian American and Latino Youth,” with Natalie Masuoka, Applied Developmental Science, 12:2, (April 2008) 93- 101. Jane Junn c.v. January 2018, page 2 JOURNAL ARTICLES (continued) “Asian American Identity: Shared Racial Status and Political Context,” with Natalie Masuoka, Perspectives on Politics, 6:4, (December 2008) 729-740. “Making Room for Women of Color: Race and Gender Categories in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election” Politics and Gender, (March 2009). “Race-Based Considerations and the Obama Vote: Evidence from the 2008 National Asian American Survey,” with S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, Janelle S. Wong, and Taeku Lee, DuBois Review, 6:1 (2009) 219-238. “De-Racializing Obama: White Voters’ Evaluation of Minority Candidates,” with David J. Andersen, American Politics Research, 38:3 (May 2010) 443-470. “Citizenship in an Unequal World,” Perspectives on Politics, 9:3 (September 2011) 633-637. “Five Justices, Section 4, and Three Ways Forward in Voting Rights,” with Kareem Crayton, 9 Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy113-162 (2013) [Available at: http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/djclpp/vol9/iss1/5]. “Silent citizenship among Asian Americans and Latinos: opting out or left out?” with Justin Berry, Citizenship Studies (2015) 19:5 (pp. 570-90). “The Trump Majority: White Womanhood and the Making of Female Voters in the U.S.,” Politics, Groups, and Identities (2017) 5:2. “Structuring Good Representation: Institutional Design and Elections in California,” PS: Political Science & Politics (2018). “The Utility of White Racial Identity in Voting,” with Nick Weller, Perspectives on Politics (2018). BRIEFS Brief of Political Science and Law Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent in Shelby County v. Holder, United States Supreme Court, 2013 [http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/briefs- v2/12-96_resp_amcu_pslp.authcheckdam.pdf]. BOOK CHAPTERS “Participation and Political Knowledge,” pp. 193-212 in Political Participation and American Democracy, Ed., William Crotty (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press) 1991. “Assimilating or Coloring Participation? Gender, Race, and Democratic Political Participation,” pp. 387-397 in Women Transforming Politics, Eds., Cathy J. Cohen, Kathleen B. Jones, and Joan C. Tronto (New York: New York University Press) 1997. Jane Junn c.v. January 2018, page 3 “Participation in Liberal Democracy: The Political Assimilation of Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in the United States,” pp. 187-214 in Immigration Research for a New Century, Eds., Nancy Foner, Ruben G. Rumbaut, and Steven J. Gold (New York: Russell Sage Foundation) 2000. “The Future of Democratic Participation: The Significance of Immigration, Race, and Class,” pp. 55-72 in The Future of Democratic Politics, Eds., Gerald M. Pomper and Marc Weiner (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press) 2003. “Mobilizing Group Consequences: When Does Ethnicity Have Political Consequences?” pp. 32- 47 in Transforming Politics, Transforming America: The Political and Civic Incorporation of Immigrants in the United States, Eds., Taeku Lee, Karthick Ramakrishnan and Ricardo Ramírez (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press) 2006. “What Revolution? Incorporating Intersectionality in Women and Politics,” with Nadia Brown, pp. 64-78 in Women and American Democracy, Eds., Christina Wolbrecht, Karen Beckwith, and Lisa Baldez (New York: Cambridge University Press) 2008. “On Participation: Individuals, Dynamic Categories and the Context of Power,” in Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior, Ed., Jan E. Leighley (New York: Oxford University Press) 2010. “Immigrants and Political Parties,” with Marika Dunn, pp. 166-185 in New Directions in Ameican Political Parties, Ed., Jeff Stonecash (New York: Routledge) 2010. “Asian American Public Opinion,” with Taeku Lee, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Janelle Wong, in Oxford Handbook of the Presidency and the Media, Eds., Robert Y. Shapiro and Lawrence Jacobs (New York: Oxford University Press), 2011. “Politics from the Perspective of Minority Populations,” with Dennis Chong, in Oxford Handbook of Experiments in Political Science, Ed., James Druckman and James Kuklinski (New York: Oxford University press), 2011. “Race and Groups: Foundations of Political Preferences,” with Tali Mendelberg and Erica Czaja, in New Directions in Public Opinion, Ed., Adam Berinsky (New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis), 2011. “Aliens and of Color: The Multidimensional Relationship of Immigration Policy and Racial Classification in the U.S.,” with Alexandra Filindra, in Oxford Handbook of International Migration, Eds., Daniel Tichenor and Marc Rosenblum (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press) pp. 429-455, 2012. Jane Junn c.v. January 2018, page 4 “Reaching Beyond Low-Hanging Fruit: Surveying Low-Incidence Populations” with Justin Berry and Yousef Chouhoud, Oxford Handbook on Polling and Polling Methods, Eds., J. Michael Alvarez and Lonna Atkinson (2016). “Race-Based Considerations and the Obama Vote: Evidence from the 2008 National Asian American Survey,” with S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, Janelle Wong, and Taeku Lee, in Contemporary Asian America, 3rd edition, Eds., Min Zhou and Anthony C. Ocambo (New York: New York University Press) pp. 577-600, 2016. BOOK REVIEWS Political Science Quarterly,
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