Robin Jacobson
American Politics, Public Policy, Race and Ethnic Politics, Social Movements
BA, Political Science, Departmental Honors, Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Oregon
Office: 257 Coleman Hall
Email: rjacobso@bucknell.edu
Phone: 570-577-3970
Office Hours: Thursday 9:00-12:00
Courses typically offered:
FOUN - 098 - Social Justice
POLS 140 - American Politics
POLS 234 - State and Local Internship Program
POLS 370 - Race and American Politics
Education:
University Of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
Ph.D., Political Science, 2004.
Concentrations in American Politics, Public Policy, and Social Movements.
Dissertation: Beyond the Border: Citizenship, Collective Action and Color in Proposition 187
Committee: Gerald Berk and Julie Novkov (co-chairs), Peggy Pascoe and Joseph Lowndes.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. BA, Political Science, Departmental Honors, 1996.
Thesis: Critical Education: An Analysis of Baltimore Educational Reform.
Advisor: Matthew Crenson.
Experience:
Assistant Professor. Bucknell University. Fall 2004-present.
Instructor. University of Oregon. Winter 2001- Fall 2002; Fall 2003.
Research Assistant to Peggy Pascoe, Department of History, University of Oregon. Spring1999.
Teaching Assistant. University of Oregon. Fall 1997-Fall 2000; Winter – Spring 2003.
Research Intern. People For the American Way, Washington, D.C. Investigated reports of censorship through telephone interviews and newspaper reports. Wrote-up incidents for inclusion in the book "Right Wing and a Prayer: The Religious Right and Public Education." March - July 1997.
Research Assistant to Carol Burke, Assistant Dean of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. January 1994-May 1996.
Public Relations Intern. American Civil Liberties Union of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD. Researched and wrote educational material for high school and middle school students on civil liberties. Fall 1994.
Publications and Paper Presentations:
"Characterizing Consent: Race, Citizenship, and the New Restrictionists." Western Political Science Association Conference, Denver, CO 2003 and American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA 2003. Forthcoming in Political Research Quarterly.
"Dangerous Distinctions: New Racism and Proposition 187" Inro@ds: graduate journal of gender, race, ethnicity and migration. 1:1 Spring 2001 http://www.inroads.umn.edu.
"To Organize or Demonize: Unions and the Politics of Immigration." Western Political Science Association Conference, Oakland, CA 2005.
"Internet Identities: Social Movement and On-line Activism." Western Political Science Association Conference, Portland, OR 2004.
"Differential Democracy: Elites, Mass Opinion and Gender in the State Initiative Process." Co-authored with Matthew Manweller. Northwest Political Science Association Conference, Boise, Idaho 2001 and American Political Science Association Conference, Boston, MA 2002.
"Co-creating Whiteness: Elite and Grassroots Contributions to Racial Constructs in Proposition 187." American Political Science Association Conference, Boston, MA 2002.
"Beyond the Border: Collective Action and Citizenship in Proposition 187" Western Political Science Association Conference, San Jose, CA 2000 and the Graduate Student History Conference, Eugene, Oregon 2001.
"A New Environmental Racism: Nativism and the Environmental Movement" Politics of Identity: Learning to Listen Conference, Eugene, OR, March 2001.
"INS Interventions: Patterns of Power" Northwest Political Science Association Conference, Eugene, Oregon 2000.
"The Right's Right to Identity: Social Movement Theory and the Christian Right" Western Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, March 1999 and American Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, September 1999.
Awards and Honors:
Best Paper of the Western Political Science Conference in Latina/o Politics 2004.
Stephen L. Wasby Dissertation Award 2004. (Full funding for January to June 2004.)
Center on Diversity and Community Fellowship 2002. (One of the inaugural recipients of this $1500 grant, which funded transcription of interviews and travel.)
University of Oregon Risa Palm Scholarship 2002. (Sole recipient of this merit based $2000 award.)
Distinction in American Politics. Department of Political Science, University of Oregon 2000.
Professional Activities:
Board Member. The Center on Diversity and Community 2003-2004.
Discussant. "Brown’s Legacy: 50 Years Later." American Political Science Association. Philadelphia, PA, 2003.
Chair. "Race and History." Western Political Science Association. Long Beach, CA, 2002.
Assistant Conference Organizer. "Diversity in University Curriculum" at the University of Oregon Politics of Identity Conference, Eugene, OR, 2001.
