#  Michael Javen Fortner 

PhD in Government and Social Policy, 2010.

Professor of Political Science, The Graduate Center, CUNY.

 

 

 



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Michael Javen Fortner is the author of [Black Silent Majority: Urban Politics and the Rockefeller Drug Laws](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674743991)*,* Harvard University Press (2015). *Winner of the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History by the New York Academy of History, 2016*.

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He is also co-editor with Amy Bridges of [Urban Citizenship and American Democracy: The Historical and Institutional Roots of Local Politics and Policy](http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6235-urban-citizenship-and-american-.aspx)*,* SUNY Press (2016).  


 

 

 





 

 

- ## Alumni department
    
     [Government and Social Policy](/alumni-department/government-and-social-policy)
- ## Alumni year
    
     [2010](/alumni-year/2010)
- ## Roles
    
     [PhD Alumni](/alumni)