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Gary Gaile's publications include 'The Work of Cities' (University of Minnesota Press 1998), with, and a recently completed book manuscript on the multiethnic politics of school reform in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, and Boston. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the U. S. Economic Development Administration, the Canadian Government, Fulbright, Annie E. Casey Foundation, the National League of Cities, and other granting agencies. In 1999, she was a Fulbright Distinguished Senior Scholar, holding the Thomas Jefferson Chair at the University of Amsterdam. She is currently associate chair and director of graduate studies at CU. At CU, she also served (1990-95) as director of the Center for Public Policy Research; in Fall 2001, she became director of a new interdisciplinary center for research and teaching in the social sciences at Boulder. In 2000, she was honored as a recipient of the Elizabeth Gee award, recognizing the research, teaching, service, and mentoring achievements of a woman faculty member in the four-campus University of Colorado system. In 2000, her proposal won funding from the national Council of Graduate Schools/Association of American Colleges and Universities/APSA to support a program on 'Preparing Future Faculty.' In 2000, she was one of 40 academics (and the only political scientist) named as a Carnegie Scholar in a national fellowship competition supporting the scholarship of teaching and learning. She is also a recipient of the APSA Women 's Caucus Outstanding Mentor award. She is a past president of the Organized Section on Urban Politics; she also served on the APSA Harold D. Lasswell Award Committee (1997-98), the APSA Ad Hoc Committee on Program Assessment (1993), and the APSA Women 's Caucus 's M.M. Lepper and Alice Paul award committees. In addition, she is a former member of the WPSA Executive Council, a recent co-editor of Government and Policy, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Urban Affairs and Economic Development Quarterly. During her term on the APSA Council, she is interested in developing initiatives to support the scholarship of teaching and learning political science, particularly on issues of social justice. She is also committed to working on graduate education issues, with a special interest in better articulation of graduate programs and the job market for Ph.D.'s in political science.

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