Staff Profiles<\/a><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_accordion_item][\/et_pb_accordion][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.4.8″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2020\/06\/Hayduk_Landing_page.jpg” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” alt=”Ronald Hayduk, center, in discussion with his students.” title_text=”Ronald Hayduk” sticky_enabled=”0″ align=”center” border_width_all=”1px”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.10″ text_font=”Open Sans||||||||” text_font_size=”16px” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n
Queens College political science professor Ronald Hayduk, center, in discussion with his students.\u00a0 Hayduk is a recent co-recipient\u2014with Professor Anahi Viladrich\u2014of a Con Edison \u201cPower of Giving\u201d program grant, which will fund student research on fostering immigrant participation in civic life.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n
More than 30 million U.S. residents\u2014one in 10\u2014are non-citizen immigrants. In New York City, it\u2019s one in five adults. They pay taxes, send their children to public schools, revitalize neighborhoods, and are hired in every sector from health care to Hollywood. Many find it takes 10 years to become U.S. citizens. Their bootstrap struggles\u2014especially for the right to vote on matters affecting their daily lives\u2014galvanize Ronald Hayduk as author, activist, and animated teacher.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAfter his visiting professorship in 2011-12, Queens College recruited Hayduk from the Borough of Manhattan Community College.\u00a0 In his role as associate director of the Immigration Studies Working Group (ISWG), Hayduk has been working with ISWG Director Anahi Viladrich to develop an Immigration Studies Center. QC is \u201cperfectly positioned\u201d to focus on America\u2019s newcomers and \u201ctheir incredible contributions,\u201d he says. Of the borough\u2019s \u201c2 million residents, more than 47 percent are foreign-born.\u201d For Hayduk, whose grandparents came from Slovakia and Salerno, Italy, the immigrant experience is \u201cwoven into the fabric of my family\u2019s experience.\u201d Their traditions and struggles, he recalls, were \u201ca great source of tremendous learning, pride, discovery, and rediscovery.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nA social worker, Hayduk turned to graduate school to study how government \u201ccould be a tool for solving problems.\u201d Taking a three-year break from his dissertation in the early 1990s, he became the director of\u00a0 New York City\u2019s Voter Assistance Commission, designing \u201cmotor-voter\u201d programs for dozens of city agencies and voter education and mobilization campaigns for non-profit and community-based organizations. In reaching out to register non-citizens to vote for community school board elections, as New York City allowed from 1969-2002, he became convinced that immigrants should remain stakeholders via the ballot box. A founding member of New York\u2019s Coalition to Expand Voting Rights, Hayduk contends that the nation has \u201chidden its history\u201d from 1776 to the 1920s, when non-citizens could vote in many elections.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThe political scientist\u2019s books reflect his persuasive reform arguments: Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S. (2006) and Gatekeepers to the Franchise: Shaping Election Administration in New York (2005). Gatekeeping remains timely as several states try to clamp down on who can vote. Hayduk also co-edited From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization (2003) and Democracy\u2019s Moment: Reforming the American Political System for the 21st Century (2002).<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nRecent projects including contributing to a new book on the \u201cimmigrant crossroads\u201d in Queens (Tarry Hum in Urban Studies is co-editor) and serving as an election observer in Venezuela. The courses he taught last semester, such as \u201cPoverty amid Plenty: The Politics of the 99%\u201d and \u201cThe Politics of Immigration,\u201d prompted \u201cwonderfully rich discussions,\u201d he notes, about \u201cwho we are as a nation.\u201d Adds Hayduk, \u201cI feel privileged to talk about ideas I really care about and encourage students to be active participants in shaping their world.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nBook he\u2019s reading now:<\/strong> QC anthropologist Roger Sanjek\u2019s The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City. \u201cThis guy did some amazing work.\u201d <\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nSurprising fact:<\/strong> His days as a DJ started in grad school. \u201cIt\u2019s New York\u2014you\u2019ve got to party. Friends would send me the hottest music from Niger or the Caribbean. I did some fundraisers and friends weddings, then DJ\u2019d little clubs and bars on the Lower East Side. I still DJ in my house for parties and for fun.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Name: Ronald Hayduk Title: Professor and Associate Director of Queens College\u2019s Center for Immigration Studies Department: Political Science Degree(s): PhD, CUNY Graduate Center Contact Information: Office: Powdermaker Hall 200 Phone: (718) 997-5470 Email: Ronald.Hayduk@qc.cuny.edu “I have a great goal: to try to get people an owner\u2019s manual of their government\u2014how they can take control of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"page_category":[],"wf_page_folders":[137],"class_list":["post-1248","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1885,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1248\/revisions\/1885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"page_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/page_category?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}