Political Science Faculty and Staff
Richard D. Shingles
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1973
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1973
His research focuses is on the politics of race, ethnicity, gender and class. He also publishes and teaches research methods.. His articles have been published in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Law and Public Policy, Political Behavior, Policy Studies Journal, Political Methodology, Experimental Study of Politics, Journal of Black Studies, and the American Educational Research Journal. Selected publication which illustrate Dr. Shingles' interests are: Black Consciousness and Political Participation: the Missing Link," American Political Science Review. (1981) 75: 76-81., "Class, Status and Support for Government Aid to Disadvantaged Groups.", Journal of Politics. (1989) 51: 933-962, and "Minority Consciousness and Political Action: A Comparative Approach" in Anthony Messina et al. (Eds.) Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Advanced Industrial Democracies, Greenwood Press (1992). Currently he is completing a book entitled Aztlán Lost: The Legacy of Conquest and Race for Mexican-Americans and Other Colonized Minorities . The book examines the long term impact on Mexican-Americans and Mexican immigrants in the Southwest of the forced annexation of the northern half of Mexico between 1835 and 1850. Parts of this book have been featured in the Virginia Tech journal Research, Winter, 2002.
Dr. Shingles was a MacArthur Fellow during 1989-1990 at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, the recipient of a National Science Foundation Grant for research on the psychological requisites of direct action protest, and a recipient of an NES grant to develop measures of subject political efficacy for the federally funded, bi-annual National Elections Surveys. He is the recipient of a 2007 CLAHS Diversity Award, 2007 and 2004 University Diversity Research Grants, a 2007 Mentor-Graduate Student Diversity Fellowship, a 2005 CLHAS Spring-Summer Faculty Research Grant, and a 2005 Summer Information Literacy Collaboration Grant sponsored by the Library and CLAHS. Dr. Shingles has been twice nominated by the student Political Science Club for a College Certificate of Teaching Excellence and once designated the "Outstanding Teacher of the Year by Pi Sigma Alpha.
Dr. Shingles is an elected member of the Faculty Senate, representing the Political Science and the Black Caucus, the Commission on Equal Opportunity and Diversity, and CLAHS)Diversity Committee. In 2007 he completed one term on University Council. He continues to be the only non-administrator serving as a Sponsor of the Multicultural Fellows, which he helped organize in 1998. He serves on the Advisory Board of the CLAHS Undergraduate Diversity Certificate, which he helped build, and is former chair of the CLAHS awards committee for the Summer Graduate Student Diversity Fellowship, which he helped create. He is currently collaborating on designing a Diversity Competency Initiative - a faculty development program. Dr. Shingles is an adjunct/associate faculty member of: the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Africana Studies, and Woman Studies.Email: Richard Shingles