Resume

• 2001

  American Bus Association

  Congressional Budget Office

  Council of Graduate Schools

  Roanoke College

  John Jay College

  SHU

  Directed major research portfolio on higher education trends in the US and abroad

  executed several national survey research projects

  coordinated with government relations staff on policy projects

  communicated with science and higher education media

  Council of Graduate Schools

  Director of Communications

  School of Media and Public Affairs

  Directed public outreach

  publications

  and major events

  George Washington University

  American Bus Association

  Roanoke College

  Salem

  VA

  Conducted research on the presidency

  US policy

  and charter schools. Taught courses on political institutions

  campaigns and elections

  and public policy

  Assistant Professor of Political Science

  South Orange

  NJ

  Graduate Course Topics: Research Methods

  Survey Design

  Quantitative Analysis

  American Politics

  Lobbying Public Policy Analysis

  Political Science

  Public Administration

  SPSS

  Stata

  Excel

  Asssistant Professor of Political Science and Public Administration

  SHU

  New York

  NY

  Starting a social innovation fellowship program.\n\nTeach public policy

  research methods

  and program evaluation. \n\nReviews editor

  Interest Groups and Advocacy.\n\nMember of the Doctoral Faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center.

  Assistant Professor

  John Jay College

  Collaborated on study of implementation of US laws

  used SPSS to analyze higher education data

  Congressional Budget Office

• 2000

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Dissertation: Statistical Analysis of Personnel Practices of Charter Schools

  Public Policy

  The George Washington University

• 1997

  Master of Arts (M.A.)

  International Relations and Affairs

  The George Washington University

• 1992

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  History

  Guilford College

• Non-profit Administration

  Podcasting

  Quantitative Analytics

  Elections

  Lobbying

  Policy

  Social Media

  Federal Government

  Survey Design

  Fundraising

  Surveying

  Strategic Planning

  Statistics

  Presidency

  Research

  Blogging

  Non-profits

  Congress

  Quantitative Research

  Political Campaigns

  Lobbying the New President: Interests in Transition (now in paperback)

  Presidential transitions offer the chance for new ideas

  policies

  and people to inhabit the White House. Transitions have triggered policy change for decades and eager interest groups have sought ways to capitalize on this often chaotic phase of US politics. President-Elect Barack Obama declared that lobbyists would be forbidden from serving his transition and issued stiff regulations and rules to limit their access to the planning for his White House. Yet even though Obama’s efforts mirror previous Presidents anti-lobbyist efforts

  all Presidential transitions provide certain channels of influence

  and Obama himself chose the head of a powerful and politically oriented think tank

  the Center for American Progress

  to run his transition. New Presidents need the information

  ideas

  and political capital that groups possess. Thus a curious paradox.\n\nUsing an innovative mixed methodology integrating a historical analysis of original documents

  original interviews with over 40 interest group leaders and transition leaders

  a survey of 300 interest groups and content analysis of 300 interest group letters

  Lobbying the New President uncovers the politics of interest group influence during Presidential transitions.

  Lobbying the New President: Interests in Transition (now in paperback)

  Unlike previous books on the Tea Party

  this work looks at the second phase of party growth to show that what was once considered a monolithic movement is truly a collection of different opinions. Since the Tea Party exploded onto the American political scene

  it has matured and changed

  but the differences that now exist within the movement are largely unacknowledged. A more nuanced understanding is called for. Previous treatises have sought explanations for the rise of the movement and focused primarily on its early days. This book

  in contrast

  focuses on understanding the diversity within the party

  challenging the notion that the Tea Party is a homogeneous political movement defined mainly by its ultra-conservatism

  regionalism

  and rigid political orthodoxy.

  The Tea Party Divided (2015)

  In Immigrants and Electoral Politics

  Heath Brown shows why nonprofit electoral participation has emerged in relationship to new threats to immigrants

  on one hand

  and immigrant integration into U.S. society during a time of demographic change

  on the other. Immigrants across the United States tend to register and vote at low rates

  thereby limiting the political power of many of their communities. In an attempt to boost electoral participation through mobilization

  some nonprofits adopt multifaceted political strategies including registering new voters

  holding candidate forums

  and phone banking to increase immigrant voter turnout. Other nonprofits opt to barely participate at all in electoral politics

  preferring to advance the immigrant community by providing exclusively social services.

  Immigrants and Electoral Politics

  Presidential transitions offer the chance for new ideas

  policies

  and people to inhabit the White House. Transitions have triggered policy change for decades and eager interest groups have sought ways to capitalize on this often chaotic phase of US politics. President-Elect Barack Obama declared that lobbyists would be forbidden from serving his transition and issued stiff regulations and rules to limit their access to the planning for his White House. Yet even though Obama’s efforts mirror previous Presidents anti-lobbyist efforts

  all Presidential transitions provide certain channels of influence

  and Obama himself chose the head of a powerful and politically oriented think tank

  the Center for American Progress

  to run his transition. New Presidents need the information

  ideas

  and political capital that groups possess. Thus a curious paradox.\n\nUsing an innovative mixed methodology integrating a historical analysis of original documents

  original interviews with over 40 interest group leaders and transition leaders

  a survey of 300 interest groups and content analysis of 300 interest group letters

  Lobbying the New President uncovers the politics of interest group influence during Presidential transitions.

  Brown

  Heath

  Brown

  George Washington University