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Elizabeth Alejo
| Title: | Lecturer |
| Office: | Warde Academic Center |
| Phone: | 773-298-3443 |
| Email: | alejo@sxu.edu |
| Department: | History & Political Science |
Biography
Elizabeth Alejo, Ph.D., teaches courses in American government, comparative politics, urban politics and methods. Her research focuses on city policies, development, and community building.
Education
Ph.D.
University of Illinois Chicago
Areas of Specialization
- Comparative Politics
- Latin American Politics
- Urban Politics
- Chicago Politics
Courses Taught
- Polsc-101 U.S. Government
- Polsc -103 Comparative Politics
- Polsc -250 Scopes and Methods of Political Science
- Polsc-260 Politics of Immigration
Selected Honors/Awards
- SXU Teaching Excellence Award, 2022
- Teacher Scholar Award, 2021
Presentations/Publications/Productions
- "Formalization as Americanization," presented at the American Association of Geographers Conference, April 2023.
- "Essential, Contingent, Informal and Infected,” 2022, co-author in "The Color of Covid-19: The Racial Inequality of Marginalized Communities," Sharon Navarro and Samantha Hernandez, eds. New York: Routledge.
- "Assessing a Community-Based Partnership in a Low-Income Immigrant Neighborhood," presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference, 2022.
- “Space, Time, and the Informal Economy in Chicago,” 2020 in "Space and Culture" 23(4).