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Traci Burch

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Research Professor

  • 750 N. Lake Shore Drive
  • 4th Floor
  • Chicago, IL 60611

Joint appointment

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University

Education

Ph.D., Government & Social Policy, Harvard University

Curriculum vitae

Bio

Traci Burch holds appointments as an Assistant Professor in Political Science at Northwestern University and a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. Her dissertation, Punishment and…

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Research focus

U.S. politics, political behavior, race and ethnic politics, criminal justice. Current research examines the effects of criminal convictions and incarceration on individual and neighborhood voter participation; changes racial categorization as a result of intermarriage and immigration; and interest group participation in the Supreme Court.

Projects

Imprisonment and Neighborhood Political Participation
Latest finding: May 5, 2008

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Publications

“Political Voice in an Age of Inequality”
“Contingent Public Policies and the Stability of Racial Hierarchy: Lessons from Immigration and Census Policy”
New York University Press

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Presentations

Concentrated Incarceration: How Neighborhood Incarceration Decreases Voter Registration
Apr 2007
The Effects of Punitive Criminal Justice Policies on Political Participation in North Carolina
Apr 2006

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Professional Service & Recognition

  • American Political Science Association Willam Anderson Award
  • 2008 APSA Urban Section Best Dissertation in Urban Politics Award
  • Associate Editor, Law and Social Inquiry
  • Harvard University Toppan Prize for the best dissertation in political science
  • Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences Research Fellowship
  • Doctoral Fellow, Malcolm Weiner Center for Inequality and Social Policy