Dear RSF:
Please join us next Wednesday, November 13 at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Visiting Researcher Annika Hinze entitled “Country Behind A Wall: Immigration policy, public discourse, and the reality of the borderlands.”
Hinze is Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University, where she has been since 2011. She directed the Urban Studies Program at Fordham from 2016 until Summer 2024. She holds a PhD and an MA in Political Science from University of Illinois, Chicago, and a German Zwischenprüfung in English/American Studies and Modern History from Humboldt Universität in Berlin. Her research and teaching focus on urban politics, immigration policy, democratic theory, gender equality, and qualitative and mixed methods research.
At RSF she is working on a project using “ambos Nogales” – sister towns Nogales, Sonora, Mexico and Nogales, Arizona, USA which sit across from each other on the U.S.-Mexico border – as a case study for the social, political, and local impact of U.S. border fortification policies. She is examining everyday practices that resist, rework, and/or reproduce boundaries between individuals, communities, and countries along the border.
Hinze is interested in housing, transportation, sustainability, as well as social and immigrant justice in cities. Her first book, Turkish Berlin: Integration Policy and Urban Space (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) compares integration policy and lived integration of second-generation Turk-German women in two Berlin neighborhoods. She is also the co-author (with Dennis R. Judd) of the 10th edition of City Politics: The Political Economy of Urban America (Routledge 2018), as well as the 11th edition, newly entitled City Politics: Cities and Suburbs in 21st Century America (Routledge 2022), and co-editor (with James M. Smith) of the recently published 8th edition of American Urban Politics in a Global Age (Routledge, 2024). Hinze has also published on immigration, gender equality in academia, urban economic development, and nationalism in journals across the discipline. Since 2023, she has been the co-editor of the International Political Science Review, the flagship journal of the International Political Science Association.