Rodney E. Hero

Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy
Department of Political Science

Degrees

B.S., Florida State; Ph.D., Purdue University

Research Profile

Hero specializes in 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. His book, Latinos and the U.S. Political System: Two-tiered Pluralism, received the American Political Science Association's 1993 Ralph J. Bunche Award. He also authored Faces of Inequality: Social Diversity in American Politics, which was selected for the APSA's 1999 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award.  He also co-authored Multiethnic Moments: The Politics of Urban Education Reform (2006), and recently completed Racial Diversity and Social Capital: Equality and Community in America (2007, Cambridge University Press). He has served on the editorial boards of several prominent political science journals.  Hero also served as a Vice President of the American Political Science Association during 2003-2004 and is President-elect of the Midwest Political Science Association (2006-07).

Contact Information

217 O'Shaughnessy Hall
631-5189
rhero@nd.edu