Rahsaan Maxwell 322 Hamilton Hall CB # 3265 Department of Political Science Chapel Hill, NC 27599 rahsaan@email.unc.edu https://rahsaan.web.unc.edu/ EDUCATION University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. Political Science, 2008 M.A. Political Science, 2002 University of Pennsylvania B.A. Political Science and Diplomatic History, 1998 EMPLOYMENT University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Associate Professor of Political Science, 2013 to Present University of Massachusetts, Amherst Assistant Professor of Political Science, 2008-2013 Transatlantic Academy, Washington D.C. Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008-2009 BOOKS Ethnic Minority Migrants in Britain and France: Integration Trade-Offs (2012) New York: Cambridge University Press Immigrant Politics: Race and Representation in Western Europe co-edited with Terri Givens (2012) Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES The integration trade-offs of political representation. (2013) European Political Science 12(3): 467-78. In symposium edited by Irene Bloemraad and Karen Schönwälder: Diversity, Representation and City Politics: The Political Incorporation of Immigrant- Origin Minorities in Western Europe. The geographic context of political attitudes among migrant-origin individuals in Europe. (2013) World Politics 65(1): 116-55. 1
Evaluating Integration: Political Attitudes Across Migrant Generations in Europe. (2010) International Migration Review 44(1): 25-52. Trust in Government among British Muslims: The Importance of Migration Status. (2010) Political Behavior 32(1): 89-109. Political Participation in France among Non-European Origin Migrants: Segregation or Integration? (2010) Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 36(3): 425-443. Caribbean and South Asian identification with British society: The importance of perceived discrimination. (2009) Ethnic and Racial Studies 32(8): 1449-1469. Republished in Martin Bulmer and John Solomos (eds). 2011. Disaporas, Cultures and Identities. London: Routledge. Incorporation, Expectations, and Attitudes: How Ethnic Minority Migrant Groups Feel About Mainstream Society. (2008) Du Bois Review 5(2): 387-412. Muslims, South Asians, and the British mainstream: a national identity crisis? (2006) West European Politics 29(4): 736-56. CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES Assimilation and Political Attitude Trade-Offs. (2013) in Jacqueline Chattopadhyay, Claudine Gay, Jennifer Hochschild, and Michael Jones-Correa (eds.) Outsiders No More? Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation. New York: Oxford University Press. Political Parties and Diversity in Western Europe. (with Jonathan Laurence) (2012) in Terri Givens and Rahsaan Maxwell (eds.) Immigrant Politics: Race and Representation in Western Europe. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. Assessing Islamophobia in Britain through Survey Evidence: Where Do Muslims Really Stand? (with Erik Bleich) (2012) in Marc Helbling (ed.) Islamophobia in the West: Measuring and Explaining Individual Attitudes. London, New York: Routledge. Les progrès de la diversité positive. Évolution générale de la participation des migrants non blancs à la politique brittanique depuis 1945. (Positively Diverse Developments: General Trends for Non-White Immigrants in British Politics Since 1945) (2011) in Esther Benbassa (ed.) Minorités visibles en politique, (Visible minorities in politics). Paris: CNRS Éditions. Inclusion versus Exclusion: Caribbeans in Britain and France. 2
(2008) in S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Irene Bloemraad eds. Civic Hopes and Political Realities: Immigrants, Community Organizations, and Political Engagement. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press. Protesting Food: NGOs and Political Mobilization in Europe. (2006) with Christopher Ansell and Daniela Sicurelli in Christopher Ansell and David Vogel eds. What's the Beef? The Contested Governance of European Food Safety. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. CURRENT PROJECTS What Makes Muslims Feel French? The Relative Importance of Religiosity, Socio- Economic Status, Social Networks and Immigrant Integration. (with Erik Bleich) (under review) The racial discrimination heuristic among non-whites in the United Kingdom. (under review) The overlap between economic and cultural threat: Accepting racial minorities in the French national community. (under review) OTHER PUBLICATIONS More like us than we think. (2013) Short essay for The Online Centre for Ethnicity in Politics Review of Zoltan Hajnal and Taeku Lee (2011) Why Americans Don t Join the Party: Race, Immigration, and the Failure (of Political Parties) to Engage the Electorate, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (2013) Ethnic and Racial Studies 36(1): 233-234. The Prospects for Political Participation in France among Non-Western Origin Migrants. (2011) Policy brief for Network Migration in Europe. Review of Paul Sniderman and Louk Hagendoorn (2007) When Ways of Life Collide, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (2010) Review of Middle East Studies 44(2): 262-264. Diversity Indicators in the United States. (2010) Commissioned report for Equity Lab. Pour en finir avec un faux débat: les statistiques ethniques. (2009) En Temps Réel Cahier no. 40, September 2009 (English translation: To finish a false debate: ethnic statistics. ) No Shortcuts: Selective Migration and Integration. 3
(2009) with Jeroen Doomernik, Rey Koslowski, Jonathan Laurence, Ines Michalowski, and Dietrich Thränhardt. Washington, D.C.: Transatlantic Academy. Europe won t have its own Obama soon. Op-Ed in GlobalPost, January 27, 2009. GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2011 University of Massachusetts Faculty Research/Healey Endowment Grant ($15,000) and College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Grant ($5,000) for survey of ethnic minority public opinion in Britain 2011 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship for German language study in Germany 2006 07 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship 2006 07 University of California Dissertation-Year Fellowship 2006 Division of Social Sciences, UC Berkeley, Summer Research Grant 2005 Dean s Normative Time Fellowship, UC Berkeley 2004 05 Chateaubriand Fellowship, French Embassy in the U.S. 2003 Center for German and European Studies, UC Berkeley, Summer Pre-dissertation Research Grant 2001 03 Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, UC Berkeley ACADEMIC AWARDS 2012 13 University of Massachusetts, Institute of Social Science Research, Social Science Research Scholar 2007 Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper presented at the annual meeting for the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics 1998 Dean s List, University of Pennsylvania SERVICE Comparative Political Studies Associate Editor Council on Foreign Relations Term Member Council for European Studies Vice-Chair of Immigration Research Group 4
American Political Science Association ad hoc Publications Planning Committee (2013) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Committee on Diversity Affairs and Recruitment (2013-14), American Political Behavior search committee (2013) University of Massachusetts, Amherst International Political Economy search committee (2010), Comparative Politics search committee (2011), Speakers and Events committee (2009-10, 2011-12), Department Chair Nomination Committee (2012), Department Personnel Committee (2012-13), Institute of Social Science Research Chair search committee (2012) COURSES TAUGHT Immigration in Comparative Perspective (graduate and undergraduate versions), Ethnic Diversity and Politics (graduate and undergraduate versions), West European Politics, Introduction to Comparative Politics, Introduction to Comparative Political Behavior VISITING RESEARCH EXPERIENCE French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE); London Southbank University - Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences; University College London - School of Public Policy; University of London School of Advanced Study; University of Paris 1: Panthéon-Sorbonne, CNRS Center for 20 th Century Social History ADDITIONAL TRAINING Goethe-Institut, Bremen, Germany German language study, Summer 2011. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, Summer 2004. Institut de Touraine, Tours, France Advanced French Language Certification, Summer 2002. Universiteit Katholieke Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Diploma in European Politics, Spring 1997. INVITED TALKS Cornell University, Department of Government, 2013 McGill University, Department of Political Science, 2012 Temple University, Department of Political Science, 2012 5
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Political Science, 2012 Harvard University, Islam in the West seminar, 2012 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Political Science, 2012 Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 2010 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Religious Studies Program, 2010 University of California, Irvine, Department of Political Science, 2008 University of California, Riverside, Department of Political Science, 2007 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Political Science, 2007 University of California Los Angeles, Immigration Lecture Series, 2007 University of California, Berkeley, Institute of European Studies, 2007 WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES Conference on Innovative Democracy and Immigration, Austrian Research Association, Vienna, Austria, 2013 Symposium on the Politics of Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity (SPIRE), Rutgers University, 2013 Identity in Europe, University of Texas at Austin, 2013 American Political Science Association 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013 Council for European Studies 2004, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012 European Consortium for Political Research 2011 Comparative Approaches to Immigration and Religious and Ethnic Diversity workshop, Princeton University (2011, 2012), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013) Multiculturalism, Islam and the State of Political Minority Integration in Germany and Europe, Transatlantic Academy, Berlin, 2012 Europe in America Getting to Know Each Other conference, Old Dominion University 2011 New grounds for race-equality policies. A French-American dialogue, New York University, 2011 Transatlantic Intolerance. University of Texas at Austin, 2011 6
Beyond Cairo: Visions of a New Decade in European Islamic Relations. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, 2010 Think-In on Intercultural and Interfaith Dialogue: Focusing on Muslim Identity in the EU and Irish Identity in the USA Immigrant Council of Ireland Dublin City Council, 2010 Immigrant Political Incorporation in Europe Workshop University of Amsterdam, 2010 Minorities in Politics Conference at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 2009 Transatlantic Forum on Migration and Integration, Austin, TX, 2009 Ministry of Immigration, Integration, and National Identity, Paris, 2009 Center for Applied Policy Research, Munich, 2009 State Chancellery, Berlin, 2009 Ernst Freiberger Stiftung, Amerang, Germany, 2009 Humanity in Action, Paris, 2009 Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship in Contemporary Plural Societies Conference at Johns Hopkins University, 2009 Immigration and Political Psychology Conference at the University of Texas at Austin, 2009 Johns Hopkins University Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2009 Determinants of Muslim Incorporation in Europe. Workshop at Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, 2009 Goethe Institute, Washington DC, 2009 German Marshall Fund of the United States, Washington DC, 2008 Spotlight on Immigration Conference, University of California, Berkeley, 2007, 2008 Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, 2007 University of Trento, 2005 European Political Science Network, 2005 Midwest Political Science Association, 2004 7
REVIEWER American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, American Sociological Review, British Journal of Political Science, Congressional Quarterly Press, Comparative European Politics, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Democracy and Security, Ethnic and Racial Studies, European Journal of Political Research, International Migration Review, International Studies Quarterly, Israel Science Foundation, Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, Journal of Politics, Journal of South Asian Diaspora, Oxford University Press, Political Behavior, Political Studies, Polity, The Social Science Journal, Social Problems, Social Science Research, UK Government Office for Science, Vienna Science and Technology Fund, West European Politics. LANGUAGES French: fluent German: basic 8