Adriano Udani
Visiting Assistant Professor of
Political Science
Holland Hall 103A
507-786-3317
udani@stolaf.edu

Education:

  • Ph.D., University of Minnesota
  • M.P.A., The Maxwell School of Citizenship
    and Public Affairs at Syracuse
    University
  • B.S., Northwestern University

Research and teaching interests:

  • Public policy and inequality
  • Politics of race, ethnicity, class, gender,
    and citizenship
  • Social movements and interest groups
  • The intersections between immigration,
    welfare, and criminal justice policies

Curriculm Vitae

www.audani.com

Professor Adriano Udani joins the department through a post-doctoral fellowship offered by the Consortium for Faculty Diversity in Liberal Arts Colleges. During the 2011-2012 academic year, he will teach two courses: Policy-Centered Approaches to the Study of Inequality in Democratic Politics and Social Movements, Interest Groups, and the Politics of Race, Class, Gender, and Citizenship. Adriano’s other teaching interests include examining politicized spaces such as urban/rural/suburban distinctions; global migration; American states’ rights; and, civic education in the United States. As a former AmeriCorps high school teacher in Chicago and a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs in St. Louis, Adriano strives to integrate experiential learning objectives into courses on American politics; the policymaking process; and, the politics of race, class, gender, and citizenship. 

Adriano received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota in 2011. His concentrations were in American politics and quantitative methods. His research interests revolve around questions about how discriminatory policies against noncitizens persist in an era when racial prejudice is strongly rejected and egalitarian norms are widely accepted. His dissertation, Members by Design: How U.S. Immigration Policies Shape Mass Beliefs and Perceptions about American Membership, explores the extent to which policymakers reconstruct relationships between race, class, gender, and citizenship in order to sustain prescriptive ideas of incorporation into mainstream society.