Associate Professor
Bio
An associate professor of American Politics, Dr. Rank's research agenda focuses on the role of youth in politics, civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. Her work has appeared in New Political Science, Journal of Political Science Education, the eJournal of Public Affairs, and the Journal of General Education among others. In addition to teaching traditional political science courses, she serves as the campaign manager for the campus-wide, nonpartisan voter mobilization program Vote Oswego which trains interested students in campaign strategies and tactics. In 2019, her work on this innovative program was recognized with the John Saltmarsh Award for Emerging Leaders (American Democracy Project, June 2019) as well as the Stand Out Faculty Award (ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, November 2019). Rank also has earned the Barbara Burch Award from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ American Democracy Project.
Her current projects include a monograph drawing on the recent crop of female-led television crime narratives to engage in political imagination about the intersections of gender, power, harm, and the state (co-authored with Heather Pool, Denison University), an edited volume bringing together the theory and practice of civic engagement pedagogy to offer political science and government instructors resources to do this important work in a changing educational and political landscapes (co-edited with Lauren Bell and Carah Ong Whaley), as well as ongoing research into the connection between student success and participation in civic engagement initiatives.