Sarah Reckhow
- Professor
- American Politics, Public Policy
- Department of Political Science
- 312 S. Kedzie Hall
- 368 Farm Lane
- East Lansing MI 48823
- 517-432-0028
- reckhow@msu.edu
CURRICULUM VITAE
BIOGRAPHY
Sarah Reckhow is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University. Her research and teaching interests include urban politics, education policy, and nonprofits and philanthropy. Her most recent book, written with Jeffrey Henig and Rebecca Jacobsen, is Outside Money in School Board Elections: The Nationalization of Education Politics. Outside Money received the Dennis Judd Best Book Award from the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. Her first book, Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics, examines the role of major foundations, such as the Gates Foundation, in urban school reform. She has recently published articles in the Political Behavior, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Urban Affairs Review, and State Politics & Policy Quarterly. Reckhow serves on the steering committee for the Michigan State Interdisciplinary Training in Education and Social Science, a doctoral fellowship program at MSU linking education policy and social science. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. In the early 2000s, Reckhow taught history and government at Frederick Douglass High School in the Baltimore City Public Schools.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- Finger, Leslie K. and Sarah Reckhow. 2022. “Policy Feedback and the Polarization of Interest Groups.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly. 22(1): 70-95.
- Grossmann, Matt, Sarah Reckhow, Katharine Strunk, and Meg Turner. 2021. “All States Close but Red Districts Reopen: The Politics of In-Person Schooling during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Educational Researcher. 50(9): 637-648.
- Bergan, Daniel E., Dustin Carnahan, Nazita Lajevardi, Mel Medeiros, Sarah Reckhow, and Kjerstin Thorson. 2021. “Promoting the Youth Vote: The Role of Informational Cues and Social Pressure.” Political Behavior.
- Reckhow, Sarah, Megan Tompkins-Stange, and Sarah Galey-Horn. 2021. “How the Political Economy of Knowledge Production Shapes Education Policy: The Case of Teacher Evaluation in Federal Policy Discourse.” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 43(3): 472-494.