ADRIENNE RACHEL SMITH Department of Political Science Phone: 865-974-7050 University of Tennessee Email: adrienne.smith@utk.edu 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,, 2012 M.A., Political Science,, 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 Allocation 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. 1
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, /Dillard University (declined) 2010 Office of University-Community Partnerships Graduate Fellowship, 2009 Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation 2009 Woman s Club Memorial Award in Graduate Research, 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 Wofford) 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 Representation 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 Adrienne Smith) Tracing Women s Ascendance in the Municipal Governments of Houston and Atlanta, Paper presented at the 2013 Conference of the Urban Affairs Association 2
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 Annual 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 American 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 Political 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 Being 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 3
Applied Policy Research Evaluation of the McDaniel Glenn HOPE VI Revitalization. Report prepared for the Atlanta Housing 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, University of Michigan, Summer 2006 and Summer 2007 Research Assistant for Michael Leo Owens, Beth Reingold, and Michael Rich, Department of Political Science and Office of University-Community Partnerships,, 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 Behavior; Politics & Gender; Political Research Quarterly; Publius; Urban Affairs Review University of Tennessee: 2013-2015 Member, Departmental Advisory Committee : 4
2008-2009 Vice President, Emory Graduate Political Science Organization 2007-2008 Student Coordinator, Pizza & Politics: Graduate Student Paper Workshop References Dr. Beth Reingold Associate Professor Department of Political Science 1555 Dickey Drive 1555 Dickey Drive Tarbuton Hall 327 Tarbuton Hall 327 Dr. Michael Leo Owens Associate Professor Department of Political Science 404-727-6569 404-727-9322 beth.reingold@emory.edu michael.leo.owens@emory.edu Dr. Melissa Marschall Dr. Michael Rich Professor Professor Department of Political Science Department of Political Science Rice University 102 Herzstein Hall 1555 Dickey Drive 713-348-2694 404-727-7449 marschal@rice.edu mrich@emory.edu Updated 2/23/2015 5