SUSAN CLARKE (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1979). Before coming to Boulder in 1984, she taught at Northwestern University and also served as a Visiting Scholar with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The American Political Science Association's Women's Caucus recognized her as a "Mentor of Distinction" for her work with women graduate students. She also is Director of the Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences, a campus-wide inter-disciplinary center.

Professor Clarke's research and teaching interests center on public policy and urban politics and policy, particularly issues of globalization and local democracy. Her publications include The Work of Cities (with Gary Gaile: Minnesota, 1998) on local economic development strategies, a co-authored book on Multiethnic Moments: The Politics of Urban Education Reform (Temple University Press, 2006) and numerous journal articles. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the Canadian government, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the National League of Cities, and others. She is Editor (with Michael Pagano and Gary Gaile) of Urban Affairs Review, currently the top-ranked urban journal in Europe and the U.S. Clarke served as Assistant Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs (2002-2003) and Interim Associate Dean of the Graduate School (2001-2002) at Boulder.

COURSES:
PSCI 3071: Urban Politics
PSCI 7046: Urban Political Economy
PSCI 7056: Readings in Public Policy
PSCI 7116: Context-Sensitive Research Methods

Clarke, Susan E., Rodney E. Hero, Mara S. Sidney, Luis R. Fraga, and Bari A. Erlichson. 2006. Multiethnic Moments: The Politics of Urban Education Reform. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Clarke, Susan E., and Erica Chenoweth. 2006. “The Politics of Vulnerability: Constructing Local Performance Regimes for Homeland Security.” Review of Policy Research 23(1): 95-114.