Please join the Comparative Historical Social Sciences as they host Robert Mickey, University of Michigan. Session title and abstract forthcoming.
Professor Mickey's undergraduate courses concern American politics, often in cross-national perspective. This semester he is teaching "Introduction to Research Design" and "Is the U.S. a. Democracy?". He won the Department's Tronstein Prize for outstanding undergraduate teaching in 2019, was named an Honored Instructor by the office of Living Learning Programs in 2018, and was nominated for the University's Golden Apple Award for best lecturer in 2017 and 2021. He was the Department's graduation speaker in 2020, 2022, and 2023.
Professor Mickey in 2011 co-founded (with Nick Valentino and Elizabeth Wingrove) and frequently organizes the Department's Eldersveld Emerging Scholars Conference. While Director of Graduate Studies, Mickey began research and student-support collaborations with departments of political science at *Thee* Jackson State University and the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras. Vince Hutchings, D'Andra Orey (Jackson State), and Mickey -- along with students at Jackson State and Michigan -- are conducting a research project on perceptions of police and policing in the United States. He serves as a faculty mentor in the Rackham Graduate School's Aspiring Fellows program and its Summer Research Opportunity Program, and since 2016 has taught Summer Bridge Scholars through Michigan's famed Comprehensive Studies Program. Mickey is now the Department's Placement Director.
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