Janice Bockmeyer, Associate Professor of Government, received a BA from the University of Michigan and a PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has also taught at the Free University of Berlin, Brooklyn College and Queens College. Professor Bockmeyer's primary research interests are comparative urban politics, global migration and immigrant urban participation, federalism and urban politics, community revitalization and housing policies. Her publications include articles in Urban Studies, Urban Affairs Review, the Social Science Journal, Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale Bewegungen and German Politics and Society. Professor Bockmeyer's current research on immigrant political incorporation appears in Toward a New Metropolitanism (eds. G. Lenz, F. Ulfers and A. Dallman, Winter Verlag, 2006) and Governing Cities in a Global Era (eds. R. Hambleton and J. Gross, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). She has served as manuscript referee for Urban Studies, Urban Affairs Review, Journal of the Community Development Society, State and Local Government Review, Congressional Quarterly Press, McGraw-Hill, and Associated University Presses, as well as grant reviewer for the National Science Foundation and the Professional Staff Congress-CUNY. In 2006, Professor Bockmeyer was awarded the Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society Outstanding Teacher Award by the John Jay College Chapter. She offers courses on comparative urban politics, urban politics, New York City politics, and state and municipal government, and is the faculty sponsor for the CUNY/Edward T. Rogowsky Internship Program in Government and Public Affairs, which includes internships in New York City, Albany, and Washington, DC. Professor Bockmeyer serves as an elected member of the Executive Council of the Urban Section of the American Political Science Association for 2006-2008