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New Mexico State University
Department of Government
College of Arts and Sciences

Government Faculty

Dr. Diane-Michele Prindeville,

Doctor of Philosophy Political Science, University of New Mexico (1999) Master of Public Administration Arizona State University (1984) Bachelor of Science Criminal Justice, Magna cum laude, Arizona State University (1981)
Associate Professor and Director of Women's Studies.

Courses Taught

    Undergraduate
    Introduction to American Politics, Introduction to Public Administration, Issues in Domestic Policy, Public Policy and Administration, Introduction to Political Theory, Women and Leadership, Women and Environmental Politics, American Indian Politics, Women, Global Politics, and Globalization.

    Graduate
    Organizational Theory, Public Sector Ethics, Seminar in Public Administration, Leadership in the Public Sector, Globalization, Environment, and Protest, Seminar in Public Policy, Globalization and the Politics of Development, American Indian Politics.

Publications

    Prindeville, DM. Forthcoming 2003. "I've Seen Changes:' The Political Efficacy of American Indian and Hispanic Women Leaders," Women & Politics.
    Prindeville, DM. Forthcoming 2003. "Latina and American Indian Women Leaders, Political Representation, and Environmental Policy." Latino Studies Journal vol.12 no.1.
    Prindeville, DM. 2002. "A Comparative Study of Native American and Hispanic Women in Grassroots and Electoral Politics." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 23, 1: 67-89 Winn, R. and DM. Prindeville. 2001. "Barriers to Use of the GAP Database by Local and Regional Land Use Planners in New Mexico." Gap Analysis Bulletin 10: 32-33.
    Prindeville, DM. 2000. "Promoting a Feminist Policy Agenda: Indigenous Women Leaders and Closet Feminism." The Social Science Journal 37, 4: 637-645.
    Prindeville, DM. 1999. "American Indian Women Leaders, Public Policy, and the Importance of Gender and Ethnic Identity." Women & Politics 20, 2: 17-32.
    Prindeville, DM. and J.G. Bretting. 1998. "Indigenous Women Activists and Political Participation: The Case of Environmental Justice." Women & Politics 19, 1: 39-58.

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters

    Prindeville, DM. Forthcoming 2003. "For the People: American Indian and Hispanic Women in New Mexico's Environmental Justice Movement."
    In A Quest for Environmental Justice, D. Whitelaw and G. Visgilio, eds. Rowman & Littlefield Barrett, S., DM. Prindeville, and N. Rubaii-Barrett.
    Forthcoming 2003. "Maintaining Academic Rigor in Service-learning: Applying Learning Contracts in Public Administration Service-learning."
    In Public and Nonprofit Administration: Theory, Pedagogy, and Programs - Models for Civic Engagement, L. DiPadova and T. Hebert, eds. American Association for Higher Eduction. Bretting, J.G. and DM. Prindeville. 1998.
    "Organizing for Community Action: Race, Gender and Securing Environmental Justice". In Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles: Race, Class, and the Environment, David Camacho, ed. Duke University Press, 1998: 141-164.

    Book Reviews
    Prindeville, DM. 2001. "Review" of Where We Live, Work and Play: The Environmental Justice Movement and the Struggle for a New Environmentalism, by Patrick Novotny. Journal of Political Ecology. http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/vol18. Jurored Research Monographs
    Prindeville, DM. and J.G. Bretting. 1999. "Latina Gender Consciousness and the Environmental Justice Movement in New Mexico." Working Paper Series WP-10, David Alvirez, ed. Hispanic Research Center, University of Texas at San Antonio, February (38pp).

    Research Reports
    Prindeville, DM. 2002. Women's Evolving Role in Tribal Politics: Native Women Leaders in 21 Southwestern Indian Nations. Research Completion Report. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University.
    Winn, R. and DM. Prindeville. 2001. An Analysis of Stimuli and Barriers to use of New Mexico GAP Databases by County, Tribal and Regional Planners. Research Completion Report. Las Cruces, NM: New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, New Mexico State University.
    Berrett, S., M.H. Lujan, C. Salazar, S. Judson, and DM. Prindeville. 1999. Report on the MVEDA Economic Summit II. Las Cruces, NM: Messilla Valley Economic Development Alliance.
    Prindeville, DM., F. Gonzales and C.M. Sierra. The State of Ethnic and Race Relations in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Research Report for Project Change, Levi Strauss foundation, June 1, 1992.

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