ADRIENNE RACHEL SMITH
Department of Political Science Phone: 865-974-7050
University of Tennessee Email: [email protected]
1001 McClung Tower http://web.utk.edu/~polisci/faculty/smith
Knoxville, TN 37996-0410 Academic Appointment
Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, 2012-present Education
Ph.D., Political Science, Emory University, 2012 M.A., Political Science, Emory University, 2010
B.A., Government and Politics (magna cum laude), University of Maryland-College Park, 2003 B.A., Art History (summa cum laude), University of Maryland-College Park, 2003
Research & Teaching Interests
Urban, Local, and State Politics; Public Policy Processes; Women in Politics; Race, Ethnicity, and Politics; American National Politics; Research Methods (Quantitative and Qualitative)
Publications
Crowder-Meyer, Melody and Adrienne R. Smith. Forthcoming, “How the Strategic Context Affects Women’s Emergence and Success in Local Legislative Elections,” Politics, Groups, & Identities.
Smith, Adrienne R. 2014. “Cities Where Women Rule: Female Political Incorporation and the Al- location of Community Development Block Grant Funding,” Politics & Gender 10(3): 313-340.
Smith, Adrienne R., Beth Reingold, and Michael Leo Owens. 2012. “The Political Determinants of Women’s Descriptive Representation in Cities,” Political Research Quarterly 65(2): 315-329.
Owens, Michael Leo and Adrienne R. Smith. 2012. “Deviants and Democracy: Punitive Policy Designs and the Social Rights of Felons as Citizens,” American Politics Research 40(3): 529-565.
Reingold, Beth and Adrienne R. Smith. 2012. “Welfare Policymaking and Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in U.S. State Legislatures,” American Journal of Political Science 56(1):
131-147.
Fellowships, Grants, & Awards
2013 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women & Politics (w/ Beth Reingold) 2013 Haines-Morris Endowment Grant, University of Tennessee (w/ Jana Morgan) 2012 Alma H. Young Emerging Scholar Award, Urban Affairs Association
2011 Mellon Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Emory University/Dillard University (declined) 2010 Office of University-Community Partnerships Graduate Fellowship, Emory University 2009 Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation
2009 Woman’s Club Memorial Award in Graduate Research, Emory University 1999-2003 President’s Scholarship, University of Maryland-College Park
2001 Phi Beta Kappa, University of Maryland-College Park
Works in Progress & Under Review
The Election, Incorporation, and Policy Impact of Women in American City Governments (book manuscript)
“Women’s Role in the Rainbow: Intersectionality, Competition, and Electoral Success in Municipal Elections”
“Legislative Leadership and Intersections of Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the American States”
(with Beth Reingold)
“Are Female Representatives More Collaborative than Men? Gender and Policymaking Strategies in U.S. State Legislatures” (with Melody Crowder-Meyer)
“Avoiding Adversarieness? The Effects of Gender on Litigant Decision-Making” (with Claire Wof- ford)
Conference Papers & Other Scholarly Presentations
“Legislative Leadership and Intersections of Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the American States,”
Paper presented at the 2014 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (Beth Reingold and Adrienne Smith)
“Women’s Role in the Rainbow: Electoral Coalitions, Competition, and Descriptive Representa- tion in American City Governments,” Paper presented at the Women in Politics Workshop, University of Tennessee, April 11, 2014
“Women’s Emergence and Success in Local Legislative Elections,” Paper presented at the 2013 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference (Melody Crowder-Meyer and Adri- enne Smith)
“Tracing Women’s Ascendance in the Municipal Governments of Houston and Atlanta,” Paper presented at the 2013 Conference of the Urban Affairs Association
“Female Political Incorporation & Symbolic Policymaking in Cities,” Paper presented at the 2011 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference
“Cities Where Women Rule: Female Political Incorporation and the Allocation of Community Development Block Grant Funding,” Paper presented at the 2010 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
“Political Incorporation and Women’s Interests in Municipal Policymaking,” Woman’s Club, Emory University, March 23, 2010
“Welfare Policymaking and Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in U.S. State Legislatures,”
Paper presented at the 2009 Reducing Poverty: Assessing Recent State Policy Innovations and Strategies Conference and the 2010 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (Beth Reingold and Adrienne Smith)
“Women and Politics in Cities: Determinants of the Descriptive Representation of Women in City Halls and Councils,” Paper presented at the 2009 American Political Science Association An- nual Meeting (Adrienne Smith, Beth Reingold, and Michael Leo Owens)
“Sanctioning the Right to Assistance: States, Felons, and TANF,” Paper presented at the 2009 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (Michael Leo Owens and Adrienne Smith)
“Post Felony Citizenship and the Determinants of ‘Invisible Punishment’ of Ex-Felons by the Amer- ican States,” Paper presented at the 2008 State Politics and Policy Conference and poster presented at the 2008 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, (Michael Leo Owens and Adrienne Smith)
“Ending Chronic Homelessness, One City at a Time: Policy Diffusion at the Local Level,” Paper presented at the 2008 Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting
Other Conference Participation & Service
Discussant, “The Responsiveness of Urban Political Systems,” Poster Session, 2014 American Po- litical Science Association Annual Meeting
Co-organizer, “Women in Politics,” Roundtable and Workshop, University of Tennessee, April 2014 Participant, “Your First (Academic or Non-Academic) Job After Grad School: Getting It and Be-
ing Successful,” Breakfast Roundtable, 2013 Conference of the Urban Affairs Association Discussant, “The Politics of Inequality Workshop,” University of Tennessee, October 2012
Co-organizer of panel on “Gender and Local Politics,” 2011 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference
Applied Policy Research
Evaluation of the McDaniel Glenn HOPE VI Revitalization. Report prepared for the Atlanta Hous- ing Authority, August 2010 (Michael J. Rich, Michael Leo Owens, Elizabeth Griffiths, Moshe Haspel, Kelly Hill, Adrienne Smith, and Katherine Stigers)
Additional Research Experience & Training
“Maximum Likelihood Estimation” and “Advanced Maximum Likelihood Estimation,” Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research Summer Program in Quantitative Methods, Uni- versity of Michigan, Summer 2006 and Summer 2007
Research Assistant for Michael Leo Owens, Beth Reingold, and Michael Rich, Department of Po- litical Science and Office of University-Community Partnerships, Emory University, 2005-2011 Associate Analyst and Research Assistant, Housing and Community Revitalization Division, Abt
Associates, Inc., Bethesda, MD, 2003-2005 Teaching Experience
Graduate Courses:
Public Policy Process (UT: Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2015) Undergraduate Courses:
Women in Political Leadership (UT: Fall 2014)
Introduction to Public Administration & Public Policy (UT: Fall 2012) Representation in Urban Politics (Emory: Spring 2012)
Urban Politics (Emory: Co-instructor, Spring 2012; UT: Spring 2013, Spring 2015) American National Politics (Emory: Teaching Assistant, Fall 2007, Fall 2008) Teaching and Other Relevant Training:
Elected Officials Academy, Municipal Technical Advisory Service (UT: Winter 2013) Teaching and Learning Center New Faculty Institute (UT: Summer 2012)
Teaching Assistant Training and Teaching Opportunity Program (Emory: 2007-2008) Other Professional Activities & Service
Discipline:
2014 Co-chair, APSA Annual Meeting Program Committee, Urban Politics Section 2013-2015 Member, Executive Council, APSA Urban Politics Section
2013 Committee Member, Alma H. Young Emerging Scholar Award, Urban Affairs Association Manuscript reviewer: American Journal of Political Science; American Political Science Review ; Journal of Politics; Journal of Urban Affairs; Journal of Women, Politics & Policy; Political Be- havior ; Politics & Gender ; Political Research Quarterly; Publius; Urban Affairs Review
University of Tennessee:
2008-2009 Vice President, Emory Graduate Political Science Organization
2007-2008 Student Coordinator, Pizza & Politics: Graduate Student Paper Workshop
References
Dr. Beth Reingold Dr. Michael Leo Owens
Associate Professor Associate Professor
Department of Political Science Department of Political Science
Emory University Emory University
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Dr. Melissa Marschall Dr. Michael Rich
Professor Professor
Department of Political Science Department of Political Science
Rice University Emory University
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