Michael K. Fauntroy
Assistant Professor

Curriculum Vita

Click here for entire CV

Academic
Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, August 2002–Currently

Adjunct Professor, American University (2001), Trinity College (2001), University of the District
of Columbia (2000–2001), Howard University,(1998-1999)

Applied
Analyst in American Government, Congressional Research Service, June 2000–June 2002
Provided research and consultations to Members, staff, and committees of Congress. Wrote reports and confidential memoranda, provide telephonic responses and personal briefings with Members of Congress and their staff. Prepared hearing testimony and witness questions.

Civil Rights Analyst, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, June 1993 to January 1996 Researched and monitored major civil rights issues which included writing memoranda, literature
reviews, and sections of Commission enforcement reports; developing congressional testimony; collecting, reviewing, and analyzing statistical information, laws, and regulations; and conducting interviews and surveys.

Publications

Books
Michael K. Fauntroy, Going, Going, Gone? The Push and Pull of Federal Civil Rights Enforcement (in Progress)

Michael K. Fauntroy, Republicans and the Black Vote, Lynne Rienner Publishers, (January 2007).

Michael K. Fauntroy, Home Rule or House Rule? Congress and the Erosion of Local Governance in the District of Columbia, Rowman and Littlefield/University Press of America (November, 2003).

Refereed Journal Articles
Michael K. Fauntroy, “Black Votes for Black Republicans Running Statewide in 2006,” The
Western Journal of Black Studies, (in review).

Michael K. Fauntroy, “African American Republican Congressional Candidates: A Typology” National Political Science Review, (in review).

Michael K. Fauntroy, “The Rise and Fall of Institutionalized Public Activism: Comparing the
First and Third Decades of the Congressional Black Caucus,” (in progress).

Book Chapters and Other Publications
Michael K. Fauntroy, “The Home Rule Charter of the District of Columbia,” in Ronald W. Walters
and Toni-Michelle Travis, eds., Democracy and Destiny in the District of Columbia, (Lexington
Books, 2008), (in progress).

Michael K. Fauntroy, “Buying Black Votes? The GOPs Faith-Based Initiative,” in Mark J. Rozell
and Gleaves Whitney, eds., Religion and the Bush Presidency, New York: Palgrave/Macmillan
Press, (2007), pp. 177-196.

Michael K. Fauntroy, “District of Columbia Voting Representation in Congress: Background, Issues, and Options,” in Douglas H. Martin, District of Columbia: Current Issues, (Hauppage, NY: Novinka Books, 2003), pp. 13-22.

Michael K. Fauntroy, “District of Columbia Delegates to Congress,” in Douglas H. Martin, District of Columbia: Current Issues, (Hauppage, NY: Novinka Books, 2003), pp. 23-42.

Michael K. Fauntroy and Eugene Boyd, “District of Columbia Terrorism Response,” in Douglas H.
Martin, District of Columbia: Current Issues, (Hauppage, NY: Novinka Books, 2003), pp. 107-110.

Michael K. Fauntroy, Disadvantaged Business Programs of the Federal Government: A
Review, Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, January 2002.

Michael K. Fauntroy, Local Governance in the District of Columbia: A Brief History, Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, March 2001.

Michael K. Fauntroy, Urban Policy: A Review of the Republican and Democratic Platforms,
Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, January 2001.

Michael K. Fauntroy, American Federalism: Significant Events, 1776 to 2000, Washington: D.C. Congressional Research Service, November 2000 (with Eugene Boyd).

Electronic Book Chapters
Michael F. Fauntroy, “Is the Committee of the Whole the House? Implications of Michel v.
Anderson for District of Columbia Representation” chapter in Steven S. Smith, Jason M. Roberts, and Ryan Vander Wielen, The American Congress, Third Edition, Online Version, (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003), (with Richard Beth)

Book Reviews
Review of, Charles Harris, Congress and the Governance of the Nation’s Capital: The Conflict of Federal and Local Interests, in Urban Affairs Review, (March 2000), pp. 588-591.

Review of, Theodore Kornweibel, Jr., Seeing Red: Federal Campaigns Against Black Militancy
1910-1925, in Civil Rights Journal: Journal of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (Fall 1998), pp. 63-64.

Conference Presentations
“Cannon Fodder, Rising Stars, and Viable Options: African American Congressional Candidates,” National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Chicago, IL, March 22, 2008.

“Afros and Elephants: Black Votes for Black Republicans Running Statewide in 2006,” Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 16, 2007.

“Black Votes for Black Republican Candidates Running Statewide in 2006: Did it Make a
Difference,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 14, 2007.

“District of Columbia Home Rule: Past, Present, and Future,” Yale University Conference
Commemorating 40th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, New Haven, Connecticut, April 22,
2005.

“GOP Efforts to Win African American Votes” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago,
Illinois, April 8, 2005.

“Republican Use of Symbolic Politics as Impediment to Attracting Significant African American Support,” American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 4, 2004.

“Governance of the District of Columbia and Ten Other National Capitals: A Comparative
Analysis,” National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Chicago, Illinois, March 25, 2004.

“The Evolution of African American Support for the Republican Party,” Northeastern Political
Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 7, 2003.

“Is the Committee of the Whole the House? Implications of Michel v. Anderson for District of
Columbia Representation,” with Richard Beth, American Political Science Association, Boston,
Massachusetts, September 2002.