Lorraine C. Minnite

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Lorraine C. Minnite, assistant professor of political science, joined the Barnard faculty in January 2000. In addition to her teaching duties for the department of political science, she is affiliated with Barnard's urban studies program.

Before joining the faculty of Barnard, Professor Minnite was associate director of the Center for Urban Research and Policy at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.

Professor Minnite's teaching specialties are American politics and urban politics. She teaches courses such as "Political Participation and Democracy" and "Contemporary Urban Problems."

Professor Minnite's research examines issues related to equality, social and racial justice, political conflict, and institutional change. An experienced survey researcher, she has published on various aspects of political participation, immigration, voting behavior, and urban politics.

She has been called on by various labor, advocacy, and governmental organizations, as well as political campaigns, to consult on matters of public policy and demographic patterns in New York City.

She is co-author with Frances Fox Piven and Margaret Groarke of a
forthcoming book, Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization
of American Voters, which will be published by The New Press in January
2009.

She is also completing a manuscript on the politics of electoral rules, tentatively titled The Politics of Voter Fraud.

Selected Publications

"Environmental Risk and Childhood Disease in an Urban Working Class Caribbean Neighborhood" (with I. Ness), in Beyond Sun and Sand: Caribbean Environmentalisms, ed. S. L. Baver (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005)

"Between Anglo and Black: Asian and Latina/o Political Participation in New York City" (with J. Mollenkopf), in Black and Latino/a Politics: Issues in Political Development in the United States, ed. J. Perez-Monforti and W. E. Nelson, Jr. (Miami: Barnhardt and Ash, 2005)

"Outside the Circle: The Impact of Post-9/11 Responses on the Immigrant Communities of New York City," in Contentious City: The Politics of Recovery in New York City, ed. J. H. Mollenkopf (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005)

Securing the Vote: An Analysis of Election Fraud (with D. Callahan) (New York: Demos, A Network for Ideas and Action, 2003)

"The Changing Arab New York Community" (with L. Abdellatif Cristillo), in A Community of Many Worlds: Arab-Americans in New York City, ed. K. Benson and P. M. Kayal (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2002)

CONTACT:

Lorraine C. Minnite
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Barnard College

212.854.4385

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EDUCATION:

B.A., Boston University

M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., City University of New York