Suzanne Mettler's research and teaching focus on American political development, public policy, and political behavior. She is particularly interested in issues pertaining to gender and politics, race and politics, democratization, inequality, and citizenship. She is the author of two books, Dividing Citizens: Gender And Federalism In New Deal Public Policy (Cornell University Press), which was awarded the Kammerer Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book on U.S. national policy published in 1998, and Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation (Oxford University Press), which also won the Kammerer Award as well as the Greenstone Prize of the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association. She is also co-editor, with Joe Soss and Jacob Hacker, of a new book entitled Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality (Russell Sage Foundation). She has published articles in several journals, including American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, and Studies in American Political Development. She is now working on two projects: one that examines how a wide array of changes in the American welfare state since the 1970s have shaped Americans' attitudes about government and participation in politics, and a second about the politics of higher education policy and what the implications of stagnating access to college may be for American democracy. These projects are funded, respectively, by grants from the Russell Sage Foundation and the Spencer Foundation.

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