Annika Hinze

Professor Hinze majored in English and American Literature and Modern History at Humboldt University, and in North American Studies at Free University Berlin. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Urban politics, politics of immigration, identity politics, urban development, qualitative methods, minority politic.

Annika Marlen Hinze is an Associate Professor of Political Science  at Fordham University. She served as the Director of the Urban Studies Program from July 2016 through June 2024. Her research and teaching focus on urban politics, immigration policy, democratic theory, gender equality, and qualitative and mixed methods research. Specifically, Hinze is also 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.

Dr. Hinze studied English, North American Studies, and Modern History at Humboldt University and Free University in Berlin, Germany, and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Dr. Hinze has done field research in Canada, Germany, Turkey, and the United States and is an Associated Researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies at TU Berlin.

City Politics: The Political Economy of Urban America (Routledge 2018)

Turkish Berlin: Integration Policy and Urban Space (University of Minnesota Press, 2013)

"Transnational Heritage Migrants in Istanbul: Second Generation Turk-American and Turk-German 'Returnees' in Their Parents' Homeland." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 42, No. 12 (2016), pp. 1959-1976. (with Sherri Grasmuck)

Co-editor: Special Issue: North American Urban Politics. Urban Research & Practice. Vol. 6, No. 3 (2013). (with James M. Smith)

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