Ph.D. 1994, Yale University, Political Science
Fall 2009 Back to the Bay WorkshopFor the academic year Sept. 2009-June 2010, Dr. Michelson is a visiting fellow at Stanford University's Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (RISCRE). She will return to the CSUEB campus in Sept. 2010.
Associate Professor of Political Science, California State University, East Bay
Team-Based Learning (Sept. 17, 2009)
Principal investigator for the evaluation of the James Irvine Foundation's California Votes Initiative, a multi-year project aimed at determining best practices for increasing turnout among low-propensity ethnic and low-income communities in Central and Southern California.
An initial report on the project, New Experiments in Minority Voter Mobilization: A Report on the California Votes Initiative was released in September 2007. An update, New Experiments in Minority Voter Mobilization: Second in a Series of Reports on the California Votes Initiative was released in September 2008. The final report, New Experiments in Minority Voter Mobilization: Third and Final Report on the California Votes Initiative was released in December 2009.
Michelson, Melissa R., Lisa García Bedolla and Margaret A. McConnell. 2009. Heeding the Call: The Effect of Targeted Two-Round Phonebanks on Voter Turnout. Journal of Politics 71, 4 (Oct.): 1549-1563.
García Bedolla, Lisa and Melissa R. Michelson. 2009. What Do Voters Need to Know? Testing the Role of Cognitive Information in Asian American Voter Mobilization. American Politics Research. 37, 2 (March): 254-274. OnlineFirst
Lavariega Monforti, Jessica and Melissa R. Michelson. 2008. Diagnosing the Leaky Pipeline: Continuing Barriers to the Retention of Latinas and Latinos in Political Science. PS: Political Science and Politics 41, 1 (Jan.): 161-166.
Michelson, Melissa R. 2007. All Roads Lead to Rust: How Acculturation Erodes Latino Immigrant Trust in Government. Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 32, 2 (Fall): 21-46.
Michelson, Melissa R. 2006. Mobilizing the Latino Youth Vote: Some Experimental Results. Social Science Quarterly 87, 5 (Dec.): 1188-1206.
Michelson, Melissa R. 2006. APSA Fund Successfully Mentoring Latino Scholars. PS: Political Science and Politics 39, 4 (Oct.): 949-951.
Michelson, Melissa R. 2006-2007. Mobilizing Latino Voters for a Ballot Proposition. Latino(a) Research Review 6, 1-2 (Summer): 33-49.
Michelson, Melissa R. 2005. Does Ethnicity Trump Party? Competing Vote Cues and Latino Voting Behavior. Journal of Political Marketing 4, 4 (Nov.): 1-25.
Michelson, Melissa R. 2005. Meeting the Challenge of Latino Voter Mobilization. Annals of Political and Social Science 601, (Sept.): 85-101.
Michelson, Melissa R. and Scott J. Susin. 2004. What's in a Name: The Power of Fusion Politics in a Local Election. POLITY 36, 2 (Jan.): 301-323.
Michelson, Melissa R. 2003. The Corrosive Effect of Acculturation: How Mexican-Americans Lose Political Trust. Social Science Quarterly 84, 4 (Dec.): 918-933.
Michelson, Melissa R. 2003. Getting Out the Latino Vote: How door-to-door canvassing influences voter turnout in rural Central California. Political Behavior 25, 3 (Sept.): 247-263.
Michelson, Melissa R. 2003. Political Efficacy Among California Latinos. Latino(a) Research Review 5, 2-3 (Summer-Fall): 5-15.
Michelson, Melissa R. 2003. Boricua in the Barrio: Political Trust Among Puerto Ricans. Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 15, 1 (Spring): 138-151.
Michelson, Melissa R. 2002. The Black Reparations Movement: Public Opinion and Congressional Policymaking. Journal of Black Studies 32, 5 (May): 574-587.
Michelson, Melissa R. and Amalia Pallares. 2001. The Politicization of Mexican-Americans: Naturalization, the Vote, and Perceptions of Discrimination. Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 26, 2 (Fall): 63-85.
Michelson, Melissa R. 2001. Political Trust Among Chicago Latinos. Journal of Urban Affairs 23, 3/4 (Fall): 323-334.
Michelson, Melissa R. 2001. The Effect of National Mood on Mexican-American Political Opinion. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 23, 1 (Feb.): 57-70.
Michelson, Melissa R. 2000. Political Efficacy and Electoral Participation of Chicago Latinos. Social Science Quarterly 81, 1 (March): 136-150.
Michelson, Melissa R. 1998. How Americans Think About Foreign Military Involvement: The Case of Bosnia. International Studies Notes 23, 2 (Spring): 1-9.
Michelson, Melissa R. 1998. Explorations in Public Opinion-Presidential Power Linkages: Congressional Action on Unpopular Foreign Agreements. Political Communication 15, 1 (Jan-Mar): 63-82.
Michelson, Melissa R. 2010. Transforming Racial Identity, Transforming Racial Politics. Book review of Jane Junn and Kerry L. Haynie, eds., (2008), New Race Politics in America: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press) and Robin Dale Jacobson (2008), The New Natives: Proposition 187 and the Debate Over Immigration (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press). Journal of American Ethnic History 29, 3 (Spring): 94-98.
