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Department of Political Science
723 Hill Hall
(973) 353-5787
msidney@andromeda.rutgers.edu
http://politicalscience.newark.rutgers.edu
Mara Sidney’s research and teaching interests are in the fields of public policy, race and ethnicity, and urban politics. She studies political struggles
to advance racial equality, and the political role that nonprofit and community-based advocacy organizations play in them. Substantively,
her research has focused on issues of housing discrimination, affordable housing, and urban education. Her books include, Unfair Housing: How National Policy Shapes Local Action (University Press of Kansas) and Multiethnic Moments: The Politics of Urban Education Reform (Temple University Press, with Rodney Hero, Susan Clarke, Luis Fraga, and Bari Erlichson).
Current projects include a study of immigrant political incorporation in Newark, focusing on the policy arenas of housing and education, and a comparative case study of racially diverse US suburbs. She teaches the following graduate courses: Race and Ethnicity in U.S. Politics, Cross-National Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in Politics, Public Policy Making in America, and Urban Politics. She teaches the following undergraduate courses: Urban Politics and Policy, Public Policy Analysis, Race and Ethnicity in US Politics, The Politics of Public Housing, American National Government.
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