Hero, professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, will be delivering the public lecture as one of this year’s Owen Duston Visiting Minority Scholar.

 

Hero, a graduate of Purdue University, has authored books on issues of race and politics including, Latinos and the U.S. Political System: Two-tiered Pluralism, which received the American Political Science Association’s 1993 Ralph J. Bunche Award. He authored Faces of Inequality: Social Diversity in American Politics, which was selected for the APSA’s 1999 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award. He co-authored Multiethnic Moments: The Politics of Urban Education Reform (2006), and Racial Diversity and Social Capital: Equality and Community in America (2007). He has served on the editorial boards of several prominent political science journals. Hero also served as a vice president of the American Political Science Association during 2003-2004 and president-elect of the Midwest Political Science Association in 2006-07.

 

His talk is free and open to the public.