Marion Orr (political scientist)

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Marion E. Orr
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Marion E. Orr is an American political scientist, currently the Frederick Lippitt Professor of Public Policy and a professor of political science and urban studies at Brown University. Orr specializes in education reform in the United States, urban politics, Latino politics, and African-American politics.

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Education and early career

Orr received his undergraduate education from Savannah State College, earning a BA in political science in 1984. He then studied political science at Atlanta University, earning an MA in political science in 1987, followed by a PhD in government and politics at the University of Maryland in 1992. [1] In 1992 Orr became a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1993 he joined the faculty at Duke University. [1] He moved to Brown University in 1999. [1]

Career

Orr has been an author or editor of eight books. [1] [2] He was the solo author of the 1999 book Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore, 1986-1998. In Black Social Capital, Orr applies the theory of social capital to the topic of education reform in the United States, using the city of Baltimore as the basis for a case study, and relying on extensive interviews and fieldwork as well as published materials. [3] In a review for the American Political Science Review , John Portz wrote that in Black Social Capital "Orr analyzes the social and political dynamics that stymied or supported major school reform in Baltimore", which constituted "an important contribution to urban studies as well as the general political science literature", including advancing the theory of social capital itself. [4] Black Social Capital won the Policy Studies Organization's Aaron Wildavsky Award for the best book published in 1999. [5]

Several of Orr's other works have received major awards. His co-authored book The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics and the Challenge of Urban Education received the Best Book Award in 2000 from the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, which is given to the best book published in 2000. [6] He also received the 1995 Rodney Higgins' Best Paper Award for the best paper presented at the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. [6] In 2019, Orr was the recipient of the Hanes Walton Jr. Career Award from the American Political Science Association, which "recognizes a political scientist whose lifetime of distinguished scholarship has made significant contributions to our understanding of racial and ethnic politics and illuminates the conditions under which diversity and intergroup tolerance thrive in democratic societies." [6]

From 2008 until 2014, [1] Orr was the director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University. [2] He has also been the chair of the political science department at Brown University, [2] as well as the director of the urban studies program there. [1] Orr has been an editor for major journals like the Urban Affairs Review and the Journal of Urban Affairs . [1]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Meet New Secretary of the Council, Marion Orr of Brown University". Political Science Now. American Political Science Association. 25 November 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  3. ↑ Holloway, Harry (2000). "Review Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore, 1986-1998". Perspectives on Political Science. 29 (3): 173.
  4. ↑ Portz, John (December 2000). "Review Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore, 1986-1998". The American Political Science Review. 94 (4): 953–954. doi:10.2307/2586250. JSTOR   2586250. S2CID   147304305.
  5. ↑ "Marion Orr". New York University Press. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 "Marion Orr — 2019 Hanes Walton Award Recipient". American Political Science Association. 27 August 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
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