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 in 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: Oct 16, 2008; By 2007, more than 2.25 million people were in prison in the United States. In an election year where every vote counts and our political system seems poised for a dramatic change, it is imperative…

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