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Paula McClain, Professor and Director, Ralph Bunche Institute

Paula McClain
Contact Info:
Office Location:  402 Perkins Library
Office Phone:  (919) 660-4303
Email Address:  
Web Page:   http://www.duke.edu/~pmcclain/

Teaching (Fall 2009):

Education:

PhD, Howard University, 1977
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Analysis Center, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1982
University of Michigan, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, 1979
University of Michigan, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, 1978
M.A., Howard University, 1974
B.A., Howard University, 1972
Specialties:

American Politics
Research Interests: Racial politics and Urban politics

Paula D. McClain is professor of political science, public policy and African and African American Studies at Duke University. A Howard University Ph.D., her primary research interests are in racial minority group politics, particularly inter-minority political and social competition, and urban politics, especially public policy and urban crime. Her most recent articles have appeared in the Political Research Quarterly, Journal of Politics, American Political Science Review, and American Politics Quarterly. Westview Press published the fourth edition of her most recent book, "Can We All Get Along?": Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics, coauthored with Joseph Stewart, Jr. was published in mid-2005. She is a past vice president of the American Political Science Association, a past president of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, served as Program Co-Chair for the 1993 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, served as Program Chair for the 1999 annual meeting of Midwest Political Science Association, and served as Program Co-Chair of the 2003 International Political Science Association World Congress to be held in Durban, South Africa. She also served on the Advisory Committee of the Directorate of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences of the National Science Foundation. She is currently president of the Southern Political Science Association (2005), and is Director of the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute, and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Sciences.

Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. P. McClain, Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto, Monique L. Lyle, Niambi M. Carter, Gerald F. Lackey, Jeffrey D. Grynaviski, Kendra Davenport Cotton, Shayla C. Nunnally, Thomas J. Scotto, and J. Alan Kendrick., “Black Elites and Latino Immigrant Relations in a Southern City: Do Black Elites and the Black Masses Agree?, in New Race Politics in America: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Voting,, edited by Jane Junn and Kerry L. Haynie. (2008), Cambridge University Press, .
  2. P. McClain, Monique L. Lyle, Niambi M. Carter, Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto, Gerald F. Lackey, Kendra Davenport Cotton, Shayla C. Nunnally, Thomas J. Scotto, Jeffrey D. Grynaviski, and J. Alan Kendrick., “Black Americans and Latino Immigrants in a Southern City: Friendly Neighbors or Economic Competitors?”, The Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, vol. 4 no. 1 (March, 2007), pp. 97-117. .
  3. P.D. McClain, “Racial Intergroup Relations in a Set of Cities: A Twenty-Year Perspective.”, Journal of Politics, vol. 68 no. 4 (November, 2006), pp. 757-770 .
  4. P.D. McClain, “North Carolina’s Response to Latino Immigrants and Immigration.”, in Immigration's New Frontiers: Experiences from the New Gateway States, edited by Greg Anrig, Jr., and Tova Andrea Wang (November, 2006), pp. 7-32, Century Foundation .
  5. P.D. McClain, Niambi M. Carter, Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto, Monique L. Lyle, Jeffrey D. Grynaviski, Shayla C. Nunnally, Thomas J. Scotto, J. Alan Kendrick, Gerald F. Lackey, and Kendra Davenport Cotton., “Racial Distancing in a Southern City: Latino Immigrants’ Views of Black Americans.”, Journal of Politics, vol. 68 no. 3 (August, 2006), pp. :571-584. .