Allison Rank
Director, Center for Civic Education
Professor, Political Science
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Allison Rank
Director, Center for Civic Education
Professor, Political Science
PhD, University of Washington (2014)
MA, University of Washington (2010)
BA, Miami University (2004)
Civic education, civic culture in higher education, non-partisan voter engagement as a high impact and career readiness practice, political science pedagogy
Awards:
Barbara Burch Award for Faculty Leadership in Civic Engagement (American Association of State Colleges and Universities, 2024)
SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (The State University of New York System, 2024)
Stand Out Faculty Award (ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, 2019)
Selected Publications:
Bell, L., Rank, A., and Whaley, C. O., editors. 2024. Civic Pedagogies: Teaching Engagement in an Era of Divisive Politics. Palgrave McMillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-55155-0
Rank, A. 2024. “It’s About More than Turn Out: Forms of Citizenship, Nonprofit Organizations, and Incentives for Voter Mobilization Programming,” in Leaning into Politics: Higher Education’s Role in Building the Democracy We Need, eds. Abraham Goldberg and Carah Ong Whaley. Information Age Press.
Rank, A. and Mushtare, R. 2021. “Accessibility as a Foundation for an Equitable Digital Civic Engagement Infrastructure.” eJournal of Public Affairs, 10(3).
Rank, A. and Mushtare, R. 2019. “Personas as a tool for teaching civic communication.” Journal of General Education, 68(3-4) p. 252-262.
Rank, A., Mushtare, R., Tylock, A., and Huynh, C. 2019. “Transforming campus voting drives into interdisciplinary service-learning projects.” Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 23(2) p. 131-146.
Rank, A. D. and Tylock, A. 2018. “Vote Oswego: The campaign-as-course model.” Journal of Political Science Education, 14(3) p. 376-389.