Dr. Sidney’s research and teaching interests are in the fields of public policy, race and ethnicity, and urban politics. She studies political struggles to advance racial equality, and the political role that nonprofit and community-based advocacy organizations play in them. Substantively, her research has focused on issues of housing discrimination, affordable housing, and urban education. Her recent book, Unfair Housing: How National Policy Shapes Local Action (University Press of Kansas), argues that housing policies weaken the advocacy groups fighting racial inequality in housing. Current projects include a cross-national study of immigrants and housing advocacy (funded by the Russell Sage Foundation), and a comparative case study of racially diverse US suburbs.
Dr. Sidney’s research has appeared in the Urban Affairs Review, the Journal of Urban Affairs, and the Journal of Policy History. She has received research grants from the Russell Sage Foundation, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Aspen Institute. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, an M.A. from the University of Minnesota, and a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University.
Dr. Sidney teaches the following graduate courses: Race and Ethnicity in U.S. Politics, Cross-National Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in Politics, Public Policy Making in America. She teaches the following undergraduate courses: Urban Politics and Policy, Public Policy Analysis, Race and Ethnicity in US Politics, The Politics of Public Housing, American National Government.
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Awards and Fellowships
| 2004 |
Social Science Research Council Summer Institute on Migration
UCLA, June 21-28 |
| 2004 |
Institute for Qualitative Research Methods, sponsored by Consortium for Qualitative Research Methods
January 4-16, Arizona State University |
| 2002 |
Norton Long Young Scholar
Urban Politics Section, American Political Science Association |
| 2001 |
Best Dissertation in Urban Politics
Urban Politics Section, American Political Science Association |
| 1996 |
Byran Jackson Award for graduate study in race and urban politics
Urban Politics Section, American Political Science Association |
Publications
Book
Unfair Housing: How National Policy Shapes Community Action, 2003, University Press of Kansas.
Named an “Outstanding Academic Title” by Choice magazine. Winner, Best Dissertation in Urban Politics, APSA, 2001.
Articles in refereed journals
“The Struggle for Housing Equality: The Impact of Fair Housing and Community Reinvestment Laws on Local Advocacy,” 2004, Cityscape 7 (1) 135-163.
“The Role of Ideas in Education Politics: Using Discourse Analysis to Understand Barriers to Reform in Multiethnic Cities,” 2002, Urban Affairs Review 38 (2) 253-279.
“The Origin of U.S. Fair Housing Policy: Images of Race, Class, and Markets,” 2001, Journal of Policy History, 13 (2) 181-214.
“Local Policy Subsystems and Issue Definition: An Analysis of Community Development Policy Change,” 1997. Urban Affairs Review, 32 (4) 490-512 (Edward G. Goetz and Mara Sidney).
“Community Development Corporations as Neighborhood Advocates: A Study of the Political Activism of Nonprofit Developers,” 1995. Applied Behavioral Science Review, 3 (1) 1-20 (Edward G. Goetz and Mara Sidney).
“Revenge of the Property Owners: Community Development and the Politics of Property,” 1994. Journal of Urban Affairs, 16 (4) 319-334 (Edward G. Goetz and Mara Sidney).
Book chapters
“Contested Images of Race and Place: The Politics of Housing Discrimination,” 2005, in Anne L. Schneider and Helen M. Ingram, Eds., Deserving and Entitled: Social Constructions and Public Policy, SUNY-Albany Press.
“Fair Housing and Affordable Housing Advocacy: Reconciling the Dual Agenda,” 2005, Xavier de Souza Briggs, Ed., The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America, Brookings Institution Press.
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