Curriculum Vitae

Sarah Reckhow

 

312 South Kedzie Hall                                                             Phone: (517) 432-0028 Michigan State University                                            reckhow@msu.edu   

East Lansing, MI 48824

 

EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley- Ph.D. in Political Science, 2009

Harvard University- B.A. in Social Studies, 2002, magna cum laude

POSITIONS

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

·      Fellow, 2018 to 2019

Michigan State University

  • Professor, Department of Political Science (2023 to present)

  • Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science (2019 to 2023)

  • Associate Professor, Department of Political Science (2017 to present)

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science (2009 to 2017)

 

BOOKS

Henig, Jeffrey, Rebecca Jacobsen, and Sarah Reckhow. 2019. Outside Money in School Board Elections: The Nationalization of Education Politics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

  • Winner of the Dennis Judd Best Book Award from the Urban and Local Politics Section of the American Political Science Association

  • Reviewed in: Perspectives on Politics, Teachers College Record, Educational Review

 

Reckhow, Sarah. 2013. Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.

  • Winner of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, Virginia Hodgkinson Research Book Prize

  • Winner of the American Educational Research Association, Districts in Research and Reform Publication Award

  • Subject of special session at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association

  • One of The Huffington Post’s Best Books in Political Science of 2013

  • Reviewed in: Perspectives on Politics, Society, City & Community, Political Studies Review, Philanthropy, The Sociological Review, Teachers College Record, Education Review

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Finger, Leslie K. and Sarah Reckhow. 2022. “Policy Feedback and the Polarization of Interest Groups.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly. 22(1): 70-95.

Grossmann, Matt, Sarah Reckhow, Katharine Strunk, and Meg Turner. 2021. “All States Close but Red Districts Reopen: The Politics of In-Person Schooling during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Educational Researcher. 50(9): 637-648.

Bergan, Daniel E., Dustin Carnahan, Nazita Lajevardi, Mel Medeiros, Sarah Reckhow, and Kjerstin Thorson. 2021. “Promoting the Youth Vote: The Role of Informational Cues and Social Pressure.” Political Behavior.

 Reckhow, Sarah, Megan Tompkins-Stange, and Sarah Galey-Horn. 2021. “How the Political Economy of Knowledge Production Shapes Education Policy: The Case of Teacher Evaluation in Federal Policy Discourse.” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

 Galey-Horn, Sarah, Joseph J. Ferrare, Lorien Jasny, and Sarah Reckhow. 2020. “Building Consensus: Idea Brokerage in Teacher Policy Networks.” American Educational Research Journal. 57(2): 872-905.

 Reckhow, Sarah, Davia Downey, and Joshua Sapotichne. 2020. “Governing without Government: Nonprofit Governance in Detroit and Flint.” Urban Affairs Review. 56(5): 1472-1502.

 Reckhow, Sarah and Megan Tompkins-Stange. 2018. “Financing the Education Policy Discourse: Philanthropic Funders as Entrepreneurs in Policy Networks.” Interest Groups & Advocacy. 7(3): 258-288.

 Haddad, Nabih, and Sarah Reckhow. 2018. “The Shifting Role of Higher Education   Philanthropy: A Network Analysis of Philanthropic Policy Strategies.” Philanthropy & Education. 2(1): 25-52.

 Reckhow, Sarah, Jeffrey R. Henig, Rebecca Jacobsen, and Jamie Alter Litt. 2017. “‘Outsiders with Deep Pockets:’ The Nationalization of Local School Board Elections.” Urban Affairs Review. 53(5): 783-811.

 Snyder, Jeffrey and Sarah Reckhow. 2017. “Political Determinants of Philanthropic Funding for Urban Schools.” Journal of Urban Affairs. 39(1): 91-107.

 Mason, Mary, and Sarah Reckhow. 2017. “Rootless Reforms? State Takeovers and School Governance in Memphis and Detroit.” Peabody Journal of Education. 92(1): 64-75.

 Reckhow, Sarah. 2016. “More than Patrons: How Foundations Fuel Policy Change and Backlash.” PS: Political Science & Politics. 49(3): 449-454.

 Jacobsen, Rebecca, Rachel White, and Sarah Reckhow. 2016. “Cultivating Political Powerhouses: TFA Corps Members’ Experiences that Shape Local Political Engagement.” Education Policy Analysis Archives. 24(18)

 Lowe, Kate, Juliet Gainsborough, and Sarah Reckhow. 2016. “Capacity and Equity: Federal Funding Competition Between and Within Regions.” Journal of Urban Affairs. 38(1): 25-41.

 Reckhow, Sarah, Matt Grossmann, and Benjamin Chung Evans. 2015. “Policy Cues and Ideology in Attitudes toward Charter Schools.” Policy Studies Journal. 43(2): 207-227.

 Reckhow, Sarah. 2015. “Beyond Blueprints: Questioning the Replication Model in Education Philanthropy.” Society. 52(6): 552-558.

 Reckhow, Sarah and Jeffrey W. Snyder. 2014. “The Expanding Role of Philanthropy in Education Politics.” Educational Researcher. 43(4): 186-195.

 Lester, T. William and Sarah Reckhow. 2013. “Network Governance and Regional Equity: Shared Agendas or Problematic Partners?” Planning Theory. 12(2): 115-138.

 Reckhow, Sarah. 2009. “The Distinct Patterns of Organized and Elected Representation of Racial and Ethnic Groups.” Urban Affairs Review. 45(2): 188-217.

 Ansell, Christopher, Sarah Reckhow, and Andrew Kelly. 2009. “How to Reform a Reform Coalition: Outreach, Agenda Expansion, and Brokerage in Urban School Reform.” Policy Studies Journal. 37(4): 717-743.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

Reckhow, Sarah. 2020. “Politics, Philanthropy, and Inequality.” In The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, 3rd Edition. Eds. Walter W. Powell and Patricia Bromley. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Snyder, Jeffrey W. and Sarah Reckhow. 2018. “The Shifting Landscape of Education     Governance.” The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Education Law. Ed. Kristine L. Bowman.  Oxford University Press.

Reckhow, Sarah and Jeffrey Snyder. 2017. “The Political Influence of Philanthropic Organizations.” Eds. Douglas E. Mitchell, Dorothy Shipps, and Robert L. Crowson. Shaping Education Policy: Power and Process. Second Edition. New York, NY: Routledge.

 Reckhow, Sarah and Megan Tompkins-Stange. 2015. “‘Singing from the Same Hymnbook’ at Gates and Broad.” Eds. Frederick M. Hess and Jeffrey R. Henig. The New Education Philanthropy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

 Reckhow, Sarah. 2013. “Respect the Depths: Campaign Rhetoric Meets Bureaucratic Reality.” Crime and Justice in the City as seen through The Wire. Eds. Peter A. Collins and David C. Brody. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

 Reckhow, Sarah and Margaret Weir. 2012. “Building a Resilient Social Safety Net.” Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects, Volume 4. Eds. Nancy Pindus, Howard Wial, and Harold Wolman. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.

 Reckhow, Sarah. 2011. “Disseminating and Legitimating a New Approach: The Role of Foundations.” Between Public and Private: Politics, Governance, and the New Portfolio Models for Urban School Reform. Eds. Katrina E. Bulkley, Jeffrey R. Henig, and Henry M. Levin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

POLICY REPORTS AND MEDIA COMMENTARY

Lowe, Kate, Sarah Reckhow, and Andrew Benjamin. 2021. “Pete Buttigieg may not know this yet:    Rail transportation funding is a racial equity issue.” The Washington Post. Monkey Cage. February 1.

Reckhow, Sarah. 2020. “Reforms we voted for two years ago prepared us for pandemic voting.” Lansing State Journal. October 28.

Reckhow, Sarah and Craig Thiel. 2020. “Whitmer, don’t turn your back on struggling schools.” The Detroit News. March 4.

 Reckhow, Sarah, Rebecca Jacobsen, and Jeffrey Henig. 2019. “Why are teachers  protesting in ‘blue’ cities?” The Washington Post. Monkey Cage. March 8.

 Reckhow, Sarah, Davia Downey, and Josh Sapotichne. 2018. “Detroit and Flint Keep Relying on Private Money to Solve Public Problems: Why?” The Washington Post. Monkey Cage. November 27.

 Downey, Davia, and Sarah Reckhow. 2018. “Unnatural Disasters: Can Nonprofit Governance Promote Recovery in Detroit and Flint?” Institute for Public Policy and Social Research. Michigan State University.

 Thiel, Craig and Sarah Reckhow. 2017. “Special Education Funding Falls More Heavily on Urban School Districts.” Bridge. December 21.

 Reckhow, Sarah. 2016. “Learn from the Costly Mistakes of Failed EAA.” Detroit Free Press. March 19.

 Reckhow, Sarah and Margaret Weir. 2011. “Building a Stronger Regional Safety Net: Philanthropy’s Role.” The Brookings Institution. Metropolitan Opportunity Series: Number 20.

  

GRANTS

 “Improving Education Systems Through Interdisciplinary Training and Practice: Applying Social Science to Education Policy and Implementation Research.” (Scott Imberman, Principal Investigator; Joshua Cowen, Sarah Reckhow, and Katharine Strunk, Co-Principal Investigators). Institute of Education Sciences. (2020-2025) $4,023,893 

“Promoting the Youth Vote During a Global Pandemic: Assessing the Outcomes of Civic Training and Positive Social Pressure to Vote.” (Nazita Lajevardi, Principal Investigator; Kjerstin Thorson, Dustin Carnahan, Sarah Reckhow, and Daniel Bergan, Co-Principal Investigators). Social Science Research Council (2020-21) $4,500 

“Financing the Policy Discourse: How Advocacy Research Funded by Private Foundations Shapes the Debate on Teacher Quality.” (Sarah Reckhow, Principal Investigator with Megan Tompkins-Stange) W. T. Grant Foundation. (2015-2018) $277,895

“Outside Money in Local School Elections.” (Sarah Reckhow, Principal Investigator with Jeffrey R. Henig) Spencer Foundation. (2015-2016) $49,087

CONTACT

Me

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Sarah Reckhow
324A South Kedzie Hall
East Lansing, MI 48823

reckhow at gmail dot com

517-432-0028

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