Annika Marlen Hinze is a full Professor of Political Science at the City College of New York (CUNY) and the Academic Director of the MPA Program at CCNY's Moynihan Center. Her research and teaching focus on urban politics, immigration policy, democracy, public policy, and race, ethnicity and sex and gender based discrimination. She is the author of several foundational texts in urban and identity politics, among them Turkish Berlin: Integration Policy and Urban Space (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), several editions (with Dennis R. Judd) of City Politics: Cities and Suburbs in 21st Century America (Routledge), and co-editor (with James M. Smith) of the 8th edition of American Urban Politics in a Global Age (Routledge, 2024). Hinze has published articles in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Politics & Gender, Urban Affairs Review, PS: Political Science & Politics, and Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism and is the author of several book chapters on urban policy, immigration, and identity politics. She is currently working on a monograph about American immigration policy, entitled A Country Behind A Wall. Immigration policy, public discourse, and the reality of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Dr. Hinze has done field research in Canada, Germany, Turkey, and the United States.
Dr. Hinze studied English, North American Studies, and Modern History at Humboldt University and Free University in Berlin, Germany, and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Illinois, Chicago.
In her free time, she enjoys long-distance running (preferably through her favorite cities), outings with her daughter, walking her dog, and goofing around with her many cats.
