MELISSA R. MICHELSON [email protected] 650.888.4810 (CELL) DEAN OF ARTS & SCIENCES, MENLO COLLEGE (JULY 2020-PRESENT) PH.D., Political Science, Yale University (1994) M.PHIL., Political Science, Yale University (1994) M.A., Political Science, Yale University (1991) B.A., Political Science, Columbia University (1990) Professor of Political Science, Menlo College (2010-present) Adjunct Lecturer, Stanford University (2010-present) LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE (HIGHLIGHTS) 4/16-1/20 Chair, Menlo College Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee 8/18-8/19 & 8/09-8/10 President, Latino Caucus, American Political Science Association (APSA) 4/15-4/17 Chair, LGBT Caucus, Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) 8/14-8/15 President, APSA LGBT Caucus 8/14-7/15 & 8/11-7/12 President, Menlo College Faculty Senate 2/16-present Founding Executive Committee member, Women Also Know Stuff 2013-present Co-organizer, Women of Color in Political Science Workshop 4/11-4/12 & 4/04-4/06 President/Founder, MPSA Latino Caucus PREVIOUS ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE 9/09-6/10 Visiting Faculty Fellow, Stanford University Research Institute for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (RICSRE) 2004-2010 Department of Political Science, California State University, East Bay Associate Professor (tenured), 9/07-8/10 Assistant Professor, 9/04-8/07 1999-2004 Department of Political Science, California State University, Fresno Associate Professor (tenured), 08/03-08/04 Assistant Professor, 08/99-8/03 1995-1999 Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois, Chicago 1994-1995 Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI SCHOLARSHIP BOOKS (7) PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES (50) BOOK CHAPTERS (23) OTHER PUBLICATIONS (53) Melissa R. Michelson page 1 of 26 o BOOKS 1. Melissa R. Michelson and Brian F. Harrison. LGBTQ Life in America: Examining the Facts. Under contract; anticipated publication, 2021. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. 2. Melissa R. Michelson and Brian F. Harrison. 2020. Transforming Prejudice: Fear, Identity, and Transgender Rights. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 3. Michelson, Melissa R., J. Theodore Anagnoson, Gerald Bonetto, J. Vincent Buck, Jolly Emrey, James J Kelleher, Nadine Koch. Forthcoming, Feb. 2021. Governing California in the Twenty-First Century, 8th ed. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company). • Anagnoson, Theodore J., Gerald Bonetto, J. Vincent Buck, Jolly Emrey, James J. Kelleher, Nadine Koch, and Melissa R. Michelson. 2019. Governing California in the Twenty-First Century, 7th ed. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company). 4. Harrison, Brian F., and Melissa R. Michelson. 2017. Listen, We Need to Talk: How to Change Attitudes about LGBT Rights. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 5. Calfano, Brian R., Elizabeth A. Oldmixon, and Melissa R. Michelson. 2017. A Matter of Discretion: The Politics of Catholic Priests in the United States and Ireland. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 6. Chávez Pringle, Maria, Jessica Lavariega Monforti, and Melissa R. Michelson. 2014. Living the Dream: New Immigration Policies and the Lives of Undocumented Latino Youth. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers. 7. García Bedolla, Lisa, and Melissa R. Michelson. 2012. Mobilizing Inclusion: Transforming the Electorate Through Get-out-the-Vote Campaigns. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. • 2013 American Political Science Association (APSA) Ralph Bunche Award • 2013 APSA Best Book Award in the Field of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics o PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES 1. Melissa R. Michelson, and Jessica L. Lavariega Monforti. “Elusive Inclusion: Persistent Challenges facing Women of Color in Political Science.” Forthcoming, PS: Political Science & Politics. 2. Mann, Christopher B., Melissa R. Michelson, and Matt Davis. 2020. “What is the impact of bilingual communication to mobilize Latinos? Exploratory evidence from experiments in New Jersey, North Carolina, and Virginia” Electoral Studies 65: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2020.102132 3. Chambers, Stefanie, and Melissa R. Michelson. 2020. “School Satisfaction Among Low- Income Urban Parents.” Urban Education 55, 2 (Feb.): 299-321. 4. Lavariega Monforti, Jessica L., and Melissa R. Michelson. 2019. “Building Our Communities: Women of Color Workshops in Political Science.” PS: Political Science & Politics 52, 4 (Oct.): 1-5. 5. Tafoya, Joe R., Melissa R. Michelson, Maria Chávez, and Jessica L. Lavariega Monforti. 2019. “I Feel Like I Was Born Here: Social Identity, Political Socialization, and DeAmericanization.” Latino Studies 17, 1 (March): 48-66. Melissa R. Michelson page 2 of 26 6. Harrison, Brian F., and Melissa R. Michelson. 2019. “Gender, Masculinity Threat, and Support for Transgender Rights: An Experimental Study.” Sex Roles. 81, 1 (Jan.): 63-75. 7. Calfano, Brian, Nazita Lajevardi, and Melissa R. Michelson. 2019. “Trumped Up Challenges: Limitations, Opportunities, and the Future of Political Research on Muslim Americans.” Politics, Groups, and Identities 7, 2: 477-487. 8. Michelson, Melissa R., and Jessica L. Lavariega Monforti. 2018. “Back in the Shadows, Back in the Streets.” PS: Political Science & Politics 51, 2 (April): 282-287. 9. Pringle, Lisa, Melissa R. Michelson, Jennifer Merolla, and Deborah Brown McCabe. 2018. “Calling all Neighbors: Mobilizing Turnout for a Local Housing Referendum.” Journal of Political Marketing 17, 4 (Dec.): 418-441. 10. Beaulieu, Emily, Amber Boydstun, Nadia Brown, Kim Yi Dionne, Andra Gillespie, Samara Klar, Yanna Krupnikov, Melissa R. Michelson, Kathleen Searles, and Christina Wolbrecht. 2017. “Women Also Know Stuff: Meta-Level Mentoring to Battle Gender Bias in Political Science.” PS: Political Science & Politics 50, 3 (July): 779-783. • Reprinted in Kent Worcester, ed., Navigating Political Science: Professional Advancement and Success in the Discipline (Washington, DC: American Political Science Association, 2018), pp. 31-37. 11. Harrison, Brian F., and Melissa R. Michelson. 2017. “What’s Love Got to Do With It: Emotion, Rationality, and Framing LGBT Rights” New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture 39, 2 (April): 177-197. 12. Harrison, Brian F., and Melissa R. Michelson. 2017. “Using Experiments to Understand Public Attitudes towards Transgender Rights.” Politics, Groups, and Identities 5, 1 (April): 152- 160. • Reprinted in Nadia E. Brown and Sarah Allen Gershon, eds., Body Politics (New York: Routledge, 2019), pp. 152-160. 13. Moura, Mauricio, and Melissa R. Michelson. 2017. “WhatsApp in Brazil: Mobilising Voters Through Door-to-Door and Personal Messages.” Internet Policy Review 6, 4 (Dec. 2017). DOI: 10.14763/2017.4.775 14. Valenzuela, Ali A., and Melissa R. Michelson. 2016. “Turnout, Status, and Identity: Mobilizing Latinos to Vote with Group Appeals.” American Political Science Review 110, 4 (Nov.): 615-630. 15. Michelson, Melissa R. 2016. “Healthy Skepticism or Corrosive Cynicism? New Insights into the Roots and Results of Latino Political Cynicism” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 2, 3 (June): 60-77. 16. Michelson, Melissa R. 2016. “The Danger of Overreliance on IRB: An Approved Project is not always an Ethical Project.” PS: Political Science & Politics 49, 2 (April): 299-303. 17. Harrison, Brian F., and Melissa R. Michelson. 2016. “More than a Game: Football Fans and Marriage Equality.” PS: Political Science & Politics 49, 4 (Oct.): 782-787. 18. Harrison, Brian F., and Melissa R. Michelson. 2015. “God and Marriage: The Impact of Religious Identity Priming on Attitudes toward Same-Sex Marriage.” Social Science Quarterly 96, 5 (Nov.): 1411-1423. Melissa R. Michelson page 3 of 26 19. McCabe, Deborah Brown, and Melissa R. Michelson. 2015. “Pushing Too Hard: Using Door-in-the-Face to Get Voters out the Door.” Journal of Political Marketing 14, 4 (Oct.): 613- 322. 20. Teresi, Holly, and Melissa R. Michelson. 2015. “Wired to Mobilize: The effect of social networking messages on voter turnout.” Social Science Journal 52, 2 (June): 195–204. 21. Michelson, Melissa R. 2014. “Memory and Voter Mobilization.” Polity 46, 4 (Oct.): 591- 610. 22. Michelson, Melissa R., and Lisa García Bedolla. 2014. “Mobilization by Different Means: Nativity and GOTV in the United States.” International Migration Review 48, 3: 710-727. 23. Lavariega Monforti, Jessica, Melissa R. Michelson, and Annie Franco. 2013. “¿Por Quién Votará? Experimental Evidence about Language, Ethnicity and Vote Choice (among Republicans).” Politics, Groups and Identities 1, 4: 475-487. 24. Sinclair, Betsy, Margaret McConnell, and Melissa R. Michelson. 2013. “Local Canvassing: The Efficacy of Grassroots Voter Mobilization.” Political Communication 30, 1 (Jan.): 42-57. 25. Michelson, Melissa R., Neil Malhotra, Andrew Healy, Donald P. Green, Allison Carnegie, and Ali Adam Valenzuela. 2012. “The Effect of Prepaid Postage on Election Turnout: A Cautionary Tale for Election Administrators.” Election Law Journal 11, 3 (Sept.): 279-290. 26. Malhotra, Neil, Melissa R. Michelson, and Ali Adam Valenzuela. 2012. “Research Note: Emails from Official Sources Can Increase Turnout.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 7, 3 (June): 321-332. 27. Harrison, Brian F., and Melissa R. Michelson. 2012. “Not That There’s Anything Wrong with That: The Effect of Personalized Appeals on Marriage Equality Campaigns.” Political Behavior 34, 2 (June): 325-344. 28. Gillespie, Andra, and Melissa R. Michelson. 2011. “Participant Observation and the Political Scientist: Possibilities, Priorities, and Practicalities.” PS: Political Science and Politics