#  Traci Burch 

PhD in Government and Social Policy, 2007.

Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University.

Research Professor, American Bar Foundation.

 

 

 



   ![Traci R. Burch](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/inequality/files/burch17.jpg?itok=iGVKUv2Q) 

 



 

 laptop\_windows [Homepage](http://www.traciburch.com/) 

 

 



 

   ![Trading Democracy for Justice](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/inequality/files/burchbk14sm.jpg?itok=DcgaXJi9) 

 

Traci Burch's latest book, [Trading Democracy for Justice: Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation](http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo16382248.html), has been published by University of Chicago Press (2013). *Winner of the American Political Science Association's Ralph Bunche Book Award for the best scholarly work in political science that explores ethnic and cultural pluralism, 2014.*

 *Winner of the American Political Science Association's Best Book Award in Urban Politics, 2014.*

 *Winner of the American Political Science Association's Law and Courts Section C.Herman Pritchett Award for Best Book in the Field of Law and Courts, 2014.*

   ![Creating a New Racial Order](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/inequality/files/hochschildweaverburchbk.jpg?itok=NJd62wNy) 

 

 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Vesla M. Weaver (PhD '07), and Traci R. Burch's book, [Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America](http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9688.html), has been published by Princeton University Press (2012).

 *Winner of the American Political Science Association's E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best dissertation in American Politics (2009).*

 *Winner of the the American Political Science Association's William Anderson Award for the best dissertation in field of state and local politics, federalism, or intergovernmental relations (2008).*

 *Winner of the American Political Science Association's Urban Politics Section award for best dissertation in urban politics (2008) for her dissertation, “Punishment and Participation: How Criminal Convictions Threaten American Democracy.”*

 *Winner 2007 Harvard University Robert Noxon Toppan prize, awarded for the best essay or dissertation upon a subject of political science.*



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Alumni department
    
     [Government and Social Policy](/alumni-department/government-and-social-policy)
- ## Alumni year
    
     [2007](/alumni-year/2007)
- ## Roles
    
     [PhD Alumni](/alumni)