Education:
Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley - 2001 (Political Science)
M.A., University of California, Berkeley - 1994 (Political Science)
B.A., University of California, Berkeley - 1992 (Political Science)
Areas of Expertise:
US Politics and Institutions, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Latinx Studies, Education and Urban Politics,
Books and Publications
Gaston Alonso and Joshua M. Dunn, "Critical Dialogue: Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v Jenkins and Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education," Perspectives on Politics (2011) 9:2, pp. 391-6 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2011
Alonso, Gaston, Noel Anderson, Jeanne Theoharis and Celina Su. Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education. New York: New York University Press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2009
Gaston Alonso, Noel Anderson, Kenneth Gould, and Alex Vitale, eds., People, Power and Politics 11h Edition (Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing) (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2008
"Selling Miami: Tourism Promotion and Immigrant Neighbourhoods in the Capital of Latin America." Tourism, Ethnic Diversity, and the City. Ed. Jan Rath. London: Routledge. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2007
Alonso, Gastón, Corey Robin, Roberta Satow and Alex Vitale. People, Power and Politics 10th ed. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2002
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
PSC-CUNY Research Grant Award. (Awards and Honors) 2005
PSC-CUNY Research Grant Award. (Awards and Honors) 2004
The Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities. (Awards and Honors) 2003
PSC-CUNY Research Incentive Award. (Awards and Honors) 2002
Research Activities
Currently working on a book-length research project titled "Educating Workers Not Citizens: Public Education, Imperialism and Citizenship in US History." The book examines the racial ideologies and pedagogical practices that structured the political subjugation of Blacks and Native Americans in the Jim Crow South, Native Hawai'ians in annexed Hawai'i, Mexicans in the American Southwest and Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico. As such, the book overcomes the schism between scholars of US politics and culture who tend to focus on the impact US expansion had on power dynamics and cultural relations within the United States and area studies scholars who tend to focus on the impact such expansion had on the dynamics and cultures of their geographic area of expertise. 2022
