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Steven Taylor
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Education
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1996, in Political Science
M.A., University of Minnesota, 1993, in Political Science
M.Ed., Florida A & M University, 1979, in Guidance and Counseling
B.S., State University College at Buffalo, 1978, in Criminal Justice
Teaching Experience
American University Department of Government, Associate Professor from 2004 to
present, Assistant Professor from 1996 to 2004
Courses taught: Elections and Voting Behavior, Summer 1996, Fall 1996, Fall 1997;
Politics in the United States, Fall 1996, Fall 1997, Fall 1999, Fall 2000, Fall 2003, Fall
2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Summer and Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall
2011; Civil Rights and Liberties, Fall 1996, Spring 1997, Fall 1997, Spring 1998, Fall
1998, Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Fall 2000, Fall 2002; Metropolitan Politics, Spring
1997, Spring and Fall 1998, Spring and Fall 1999, Spring and Fall 2000 Spring and Fall
2001, Spring and Fall 2002, Spring and Fall 2003, Spring and Fall 2004, Spring and Fall
2005, Spring and Fall 2006, Spring and Fall 2007, Spring and Fall 2008, Spring and Fall
2009, Spring 2010 and Fall 2010, Spring and Fall 2011; Minority Politics in the U.S..,
Fall 1999, Spring 2002, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring
2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring and Fall; Graduate Seminar in U.S. Voting
Behavior, Fall 2001 Seminar for Undergraduate Teaching Assistants, Fall 2001; The
Politics of Inter-cultural Relations in the U.S., Spring 2003; The Politics of Tropical
Africa, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2008
National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Distinguished Scholars Program, Instructor
of The Contemporary City, offered through the Department of Sociology at
Georgetown University, Summer 2006
University of Minnesota Department of Political Science, Instructor of Introduction
to American Government, Summer 1994
Florida A and M University Office of Student Support Services, Instructor, Courses
taught: Freshman Orientation, Fall 1980, Fall 1981; Career Development, Winter
1981, Spring 1981, Spring 1982
Steven Taylor
Academic Publications
Taylor, Steven. Desegregation in Boston and Buffalo: The Influence of Local Leaders.
Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1998. (Published book)
Taylor, Steven. The Western Journal of Black Studies, vol. 35, no. 2 (June 2011) “Racial
Polarization in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election,” pages 118-127. (Refereed journal
article)
Taylor, Steven. Journal of Black Studies, vol. 37, no. 1 (September 2006) “The Political
Influence of African American Ministers: A Legacy of West African Culture,” pages 519. (Refereed journal article)
Taylor, Steven. Polity, vol. 37, no. 4 (October 2005) “Political Culture and African
Americans’ Forgiveness of Elected Officials,” pages 491-510. (Refereed journal article)
Taylor, Steven. Journal of Global Awareness, volume 5, number 2 (Autumn 2004).
“Disputed Electoral Results in Ghana and the United States,” pages 54-64. (Refereed
journal article)
Taylor, Steven. “The Swann Decision: Brown Moves North.” A chapter published in the
book Creating Constitutional Change, edited by Gregg Ivers and Kevin McGuire,
University of Virginia Press, Series on Constitutionalism and Democracy, 2004, pages
295-311.
Taylor, Steven. American Historical Review, vol. 109, (April 2004). A review of
Richard Pride’s The Political Use of Racial Narratives: School Desegregation in Mobile,
Alabama 1954-1997, pages 560-562.
Taylor, Steven. Urban Education, volume 36, number 1 (January 2001). “Appointing or
Electing the Boston School Committee: The Preferences of the African American
Community,” pages 4-26. (Refereed journal article)
Taylor, Steven. Historical Journal of Massachusetts, vol. 28, no. 2 (Summer 2000).
“Progressive Nativism: The Know Nothing Party in Massachusetts,” pages 166-185.
(Refereed journal article)
Taylor, Steven. Negro Educational Review, vol. 47, no. 1-2, (January-April, 1996).
"Black Elected Officials and Their Influence on the Process of School Desegregation,”
pages 22-37. (Refereed journal article)
Steven Taylor
Manuscript Reviews
Referee for a manuscript submitted to Party Politics, 2011
Reviewer for the 2011 alternate edition of American Government: Continuity and
Change, by Karen O’Connor, Larry J. Sabato, and Alixandra B. Yanus, 2011
Referee for a manuscript submitted to the Journal of Third World Studies, 2008
Reviewed the manuscript of a book entitled Gateways to American Democracy in the
Twenty-First Century, Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2008
Reviewed a book manuscript for Georgetown University Press, 2008.
Reviewer for the 2008 edition of The Essentials of American Government: Continuity
and Change, by Karen O’Connor and Larry J. Sabato. Published by Pearson/Longman,
2008.
Reviewer for the Sixth Edition of Political Change in the Metropolis, by John Harrigan.
Published By Addison, Wesley, and Longman, 1998
Referee for a manuscript submitted to the journal Women and Politics, 2002
Referee for a manuscript submitted to the journal Perspectives on Political Science, 1998
Conferences and Panels
National Association of African American Studies (February 2011, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana) Presented a Paper entitled “Racial Polarization in the 2008 Presidential
Election”
Hawai’i International Social Sciences Conference (June 2010, Honolulu Hawai’i)
Presented the paper on “Racial Polarization in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election”
Fourteenth Annual Sylvania Woods Conference on African Americans and the Law
(April 2010, Washington, D.C.), Sat on a panel that provided a roundtable discussion on
the Obama presidency
Association of Third World Studies (November 2009, Elmina, Ghana) Presented the
paper on Racial Polarization in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
Twelfth Annual Sylvania Woods Conference on African Americans and the Law
(April 2008, Washington, D.C.), Sat on a panel that discussed how the policies enacted
by elected officials, as well as those endorsed by electoral candidates, have affected the
African American community. A follow-up conference was also held in November 2008,
in which I again sat on the same panel.
Steven Taylor
Conferences and Panels, cont’d.
Kwame Nkrumah Conference (July 2007, Kumasi, Ghana), Presented a paper entitled
“From Kwame Nkrumah to Jesse Jackson: The Political Role of the Clergy Among West
Africans in Africa and the Diaspora”
National Association of African American Studies (February 2007, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana), presented a paper on “The Political Influence of African American
Clergypersons: A Legacy of West African Culture”
University of California: UC Davis Washington Program and UCLA Center for
American Politics and Public Policy, Spring Undergraduate Research Conference
(June 2006, Washington, D.C.), served as a discussant for the section on “Morality and
Social Responsibility”
National Association of African American Studies (February 2006, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana), presented a paper on “Political Culture and African Americans’ Forgiveness
of Elected Officials”
International Social Science Research Conference (December 2005, Orlando, Florida),
presented a paper on “Electoral Disenfranchisement in Ghana and the U.S.”
Northeastern Political Science Association (November 2004, Boston, Massachusetts),
presented the paper on “Political Culture and African Americans’ Forgiveness of Elected
Officials”
University Scholars Symposium (November 2004, Jackson State University), served as
a discussant for a session entitled “Program Coherence, Teacher Expectations and
Curriculum Change: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives and Demographic Challenges—KCollege”
Association of Third World Studies (November 2003, Shreveport, Louisiana),
presented a paper on “Election Controversies in Ghana and the United States,” chaired a
panel discussing U.S. foreign policy toward the developing nations, and served as the
discussant for a panel of scholars who presented papers on refugees and expatriates from
African nations
Voices From a Shared Past, Places and Times Remembered: Public Education and
(De)segregation in Mississippi, 1954-2000 (June 2003, Jackson State University), sat
on a panel that provided oral histories of experiences in desegregation, sponsored by the
Fannie Lou Hamer Institute
Global Awareness Society International (May 2003, Washington, D.C.), Presented a
paper on “Election Controversies in Ghana and the United States”
Steven Taylor
Conferences and Panels, cont’d.
Ford Foundation Fellows Conference (October 2002, Albuquerque, NM), Presented the
paper on “The Political Influence of African American Clergypersons: A Legacy of West
African Culture”
American Political Science Association (August 2002, Boston, MA), Presented the
paper on “The Political Influence of African American Clergypersons: A Legacy of West
African Culture,” also presented a poster and briefly spoke on “Progressive Nativism:
The Know-Nothing Party in Massachusetts”
Association of Third World Studies (October 2001, Savannah, GA), Presented the
paper on “The Political Influence of African American Clergypersons: A Legacy of West
African Culture” also participated in a panel discussion on “Third-World-Style
Disenfranchisement in the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election”
Northeastern Political Science Association (November 2000, Albany, NY), Presented a
paper on “Progressive Nativism: The Know-Nothing Party in Massachusetts”
Southern Political Science Association (November 1999, Savannah, GA), Presented a
paper on “Why African Americans Prefer Elected School Boards”
“Walking the Talk: Forging the Future of Multi-cultural Montgomery County”
(December 1998, Rockville, MD), sat on a panel discussing the “One America” report of
the President’s Commission on Race Relations
National Conference of Black Political Scientists (April 1998, Atlanta, GA), Presented
the paper on “Why African Americans Prefer Elected School Boards”
Southern Political Science Association (November 1997, Norfolk, VA), moderator and
discussant of a panel on “Issues of Race and Political Communication”
Ford Foundation Fellows Conference (October 1997, Washington, DC), Moderator and
discussant on a panel on “Political Science, Economics and International Relations,” and
presented a paper on “Why African-Americans Prefer Elected School Boards”
Eyes on the Mosaic: Inquiries and Explorations in Race and Ethnic Studies,
University of Chicago (April 1995), Presented a paper on "The Impact of Local
Leadership Upon the Implementation of School Desegregation”
Ford Foundation Fellows Conference (October 1994, Irvine, CA), Presented a paper on
"The Impact of Ethnicity on Political Behavior in Great Britain and Anglophone Africa”
Steven Taylor
Community Service
Montgomery County, Maryland Commission on Human Rights, Appointed by the
County Executive to two consecutive three-year terms: 1997-2000, and 2000-2003
Montgomery County, Maryland Transit Advisory Group, Appointed by the
Montgomery County Department of Public Works and Transportation for a two-year term
from April 1999 to March 2001
Minneapolis, Minnesota branch of the NAACP, Helped prepare a statement for a state
case regarding the plan for the desegregation of public schools in Minnesota, May 1996