Brenner to Serve on E Pluribus Unum Prizes Advisory Board

McCormack Graduate School (MGS) is proud to announce that Associate Professor and Department Chair of Public Policy and Public Affairs Christine Brenner has been selected to serve on the E Pluribus Unum Prizes Advisory Board of the Migration Policy Institute's National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy. Board members are chosen from a national pool of experts in program evaluation and/or in immigrant integration and its associated subfields.

According to Brenner, “Immigrant integration is recognized as the two-way process by which immigrants and their children come to feel and be Americans and by which American identity and culture expand to reflect each new generation of immigrants.”

MGS Dean Steve Crosby noted, “This is a nice honor. The appointment not only aligns with her professional expertise and interests, but so well with UMass Boston’s unique role in the community.”

Brenner joined the McCormack faculty in the fall of 2011. Before coming to UMass Boston, she was an associate professor of public policy and administration at Rutgers University, where she also served as director for the undergraduate urban studies program. She spent four years on the U.S.-Mexico border in the Political Science Department of the University of Texas at El Paso and served as associate director of the Institute for Policy and Economic Development.

Her research addresses the growing numbers of immigrant newcomers and the meaning of increasing demographic diversity as a central reality in their society. Her work contributes an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of institutional effects on immigrant integration at the sub-national level.

She is co-principal investigator of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant focused on health education literacy for immigrant parents.  She is also a faculty affiliate with Rutgers University’s Eagleton Institute of Politics, Program on Immigration and Democracy, which is mapping the immigrant infrastructure of New Jersey.

Brenner’s work appears in Administration and Society, Journal of Public Management and Social Policy, and International Journal of Economic Development, among other publications. She is co-editor of Dígame! Policy and Politics on the Texas Border, published by Kendall-Hunt.

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