Rodney E. Hero
(B.S., Florida State University; Ph.D., Purdue University, 1980) Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy; Notre Dame Presidential Faculty Fellow. He served as chairperson of the department from Fall 2002 to summer 2007. His research focuses on U.S. Democracy and Politics, especially as viewed through the analytical lenses of Latino and Ethnic/Minority Politics, State/Urban Politics, and Federalism. He has published a number of research articles on these topics in scholarly journals. His book, Latinos and the U.S. Political System: Two-tiered Pluralism, received the American Political Science Association's [APSA] 1993 Ralph J. Bunche Award. He also authored Faces of Inequality: Social Diversity in American Politics, which was selected for the APSA’s Woodrow Wilson Award in 1999. He is also co-author of MultiEthnic Moments: The Politics of Urban Education Reform (2006) and author of Racial Diversity and Social Capital: Equality and Community in America (2007). He has served on the editorial boards of several prominent political science journals. He was thePresident of the Midwest Political Science Association for 2007-08, and has served as Vice President of the American Political Science Association (2003-04) as well as President of the Western Political Science Association (1999-2000). During 2007-08 he was a Visiting Senior Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.
Advising specialties:
Graduate school in political science; masters in public policy
Research and teaching interests:
American politics; Latino and ethnic/minority politics; state/urban politics and federalism
Contact Information
Faculty Office: 430 Decio Hall
Phone: (574) 631-7281
Email: rhero@nd.edu
Mailing Address:
217 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556