Professor
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
Sarah Reckhow is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University. Her research and teaching interests include urban politics, education policy, and nonprofits and philanthropy. Her most recent book, written with Jeffrey Henig and Rebecca Jacobsen, is Outside Money in School Board Elections: The Nationalization of Education Politics. Outside Money received the Dennis Judd Best Book Award from the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. She has recently published articles in the Political Behavior, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Urban Affairs Review, and State Politics & Policy Quarterly. Reckhow serves on the steering committee for the Michigan State Interdisciplinary Training in Education and Social Science, a doctoral fellowship program at MSU linking education policy and social science. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. In the early 2000s, Reckhow taught history and government at Frederick Douglass High School in the Baltimore City Public Schools.
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