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She received her A.B. from the University of Michigan, and her M.A. and Ph.D.
from the University of Chicago. Her primary interests are political participation
and elections in the U.S., political behavior and attitudes among American
minorities and immigrants, theories of democracy, survey research, and social
science methodology. Her research has been supported by the National Science
Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Spencer Foundation, and the
Educational Testing Service. In 1998 she was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Hanguk
University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Korea.
Her book, Education and Democratic Citizenship in America (with Norman Nie and
Ken Stehlik-Barry) won the 1997 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award from the
American Political Science Association for the best book published in political
science in 1996. Other recent publications include: Civic Education: What Makes
Students Learn (Yale University Press, 1998) with Richard Niemi; "Assimilating
or Coloring Participation? Gender, Race, and Democratic Political Participation,"
in Women Transforming Politics (NYU Press, 1997) ed., Cathy J. Cohen et. al.;
and "The Political Assimilation of Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in the U.S.,
The American Behavioral Scientist (1999). She is currently at work on her third
book, The Significance of Race for Political Participation: How Diversity and
Immigration Change Politics in America.
In addition, Jane Junn is the Director of the Association of American Universities
(AAU) project, Assessing Quality in University Education and Research (AQUER).
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