Reckhow, Sarah
Sarah Reckhow is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University. She is joining the department in Fall 2009 after receiving her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is affiliated with the Global Urban Studies Program at MSU. Her research and teaching interests include urban politics, education policy, policy reform, and racial and ethnic politics. She has applied social network analysis to study coalitions in urban policy-making. Reckhow has studied education reform in New York City, Los Angeles, and Oakland. Her forthcoming book covers the role of major foundations, such as the Gates Foundation, in urban school reform. Her interest in education reform draws on her experience as a high school teacher in the Baltimore City Public Schools. Reckhow has also studied racial and ethnic organizations in mid-sized U.S. cities and is planning future research on African American political machines in the South. She is a member of the MacArthur Foundation research network on Building Resilient Regions.
Subfields
American Politics, Public PolicyResearch Specializations
State and Local PoliticsRecent Publications
Reckhow, Sarah. Forthcoming. Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.
Sarah Reckhow and Margaret Weir. 2012. “Building a Resilient Social Safety Net.” Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects, Volume 4. Ed. Nancy Pindus, Howard Wial, and Harold Wolman. Brookings Institution Press.
http://www.amazon.com/Urban-Regional-Policy-Its-Effects/dp/0815722842
Sarah Reckhow and Margaret Weir. 2011. "Building a Stronger Regional Safety Net: Philanthropy's Role." Metropolitan Opportunity Series. The Brookings Institution.
Reckhow, Sarah. 2009. "The Distinct Patterns of Organized and Elected Representation of Racial and Ethnic Groups." Urban Affairs Review. 45(2): 188-217.
Ansell, Christopher, Sarah Reckhow, and Andrew Kelly. 2009. "How to Reform a Reform Coalition: Outreach, Agenda Expansion, and Brokerage in Urban School Reform." Policy Studies Journal. 37(4): 717-743.
Reckhow, Sarah. 2010. “Disseminating and Legitimating a New Approach: The Role of Foundations.” Between Public and Private: Politics, Governance, and the New Portfolio Models for Urban School Reform. Ed. Katrina E. Bulkley, Jeffrey R. Henig, and Henry M. Levin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
