ESTER FUCHS

Ester Fuchs is the director of the Center for Urban Research and Policy at Barnard College and a Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She has also taught at the University of Notre Dame.

She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, MA from Brown University and BA from Queens College, CUNY. Professor Fuchs has received research grants from the NIMH, Mellon Foundation, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Ford Foundation, the US Department of Justice, the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, and 1199, National Health and Human Service Employees Union, AFL-CIO. She has also been a consultant to Mayor Dinkins’ Reelection Campaign and a consultant to the Chicago Urban League. Professor Fuchs has written political commentary, and appears as a political analyst on radio and television.

Dr. Fuchs’ main research interests are in the areas of American government and policy, political parties and elections, urban politics and policy, including fiscal policy, New York City politics, and statistical analysis.

She is the author, among other works, of "Translating Your Vision Into Success: Basic Manual for Preparing a Business Plan" (1998), "Political Participation and Political Representation in New York City With a Special Focus on Latino New Yorkers" (1997, co-author), "The Permanent Urban Fiscal Crisis," in Breaking Away — The Future of Cities (1996), "Urban Community Initiatives and Shifting Federal Policy: The Case of the Empowerment Zones," inChildren and Their Families in Big Cities: Strategies for Service Reform (co-author, 1996), "Mayors and Money: Fiscal Policy in New York and Chicago,"(1992) "Racial Politics in New York State," "Government Performance as a Base for Machine Support," and numerous other articles on urban politics and policy.

In the Barnard Department of Political Science:
406 Lehman Hall, Barnard College
3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027-6598
Tel: (212) 854-3866, Fax: (212) 854-3024

At the Barnard-Columbia Center for Urban Research and Policy:
816 International Affairs Building, Columbia University
420 West 118 Street, New York, NY 10027
Tel: (212) 854-3866/2072, Fax: (212) 854-2701

E-mail: ef25@columbia.edu

International Affairs Building
Columbia University
420 West 118th Street
New York, New York 10027
Tel: (212) 854-2072
Fax: (212) 854-2701