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Reuel Rogers

Associate Professor

B.A.: Brandeis University, 1990; Ph.D.: Princeton University, 2000
Curriculum Vitae

Interests

Research Interest(s): Political Behavior; Public Opinion; Racial and Ethnic Politics; Black Politics; Urban Politics; Immigration

Program Area(s): American Politics

Regional Specialization(s): United States

Subfield Specialties: Public Opinion, Political Communication, and Political Participation; Race, Ethnicity and Politics

Joint Appointment

African American Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Biography

Reuel Rogers' research and teaching interests are in American politics. He studies political behavior, with a focus on the influence of race, ethnicity, immigration, and place. Most of his research examines politics at the local level—how groups in cities confront and challenge inequalities in pursuit of basic democratic rights such as political participation and representation.

Rogers' first book Afro-Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation: Ethnicity, Exception, or Exit (2006) explores how Caribbean-born Blacks are changing and complicating Black politics in New York City and the United States. It considers how racial discrimination and stereotyping shape the group’s political integration patterns. The book won best book awards from APSA’s Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section as well as the Urban Politics Section in 2007. He is currently working on a new book on the politics of Black suburbanization.

Rogers has held fellowships with the Social Science Research Council, the Ford Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. He has earned multiple teaching honors, including the Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award. He is currently the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence (2023-2026).

BooksBook Cover: Afro-Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation by Reuel Rogers

  • Afro-Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation: Ethnicity, Exception, or Exit. Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (June 29, 2006).

Select Publications

  • “Using Interviews to Understand Racial Group Identity and Political Behavior,” in Interview Research in Political Science, ed. Layna Mosley (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013)
  • “Political Institutions and Rainbow Coalitions: Immigrant-Minority Relations in New York and Hartford,” in The Future of Immigrant Political Incorporation: A Transatlantic Comparison, eds. Jennifer Hochschild and John Mollenkopf (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009)
  • “Racial Solidarity and Political Participation,” with Dennis Chong, Political Behavior 27 (2005)
  • “Race-Based Coalitions among Minority Groups: Afro-Caribbean Immigrants and African Americans in New York City,” Urban Affairs Review, 39 (2004)

AWARDS

  • Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence (2023-26)
  • Faculty Honor Roll, Northwestern University, 2021, 2016.
  • R. Barry Farrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Political Science (2015, 2003)
  • APSA Best Book Award, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section for Afro-Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation (2007)
  • APSA Best Book Award, Urban Politics Section for Afro-Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation (2007)

Courses taught

  • PS 221 Urban Politics
  • PS 327 African American Politics
  • PS 395 Racial Politics in American Cities
  • PS 490 Race and Political Behavior