Robin Phinney

Robin Phinney is Research Associate in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. in Public Policy and Political Science from the University of Michigan, where she received awards including the Ford Fellowship Award, Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, and Mary Malcomson Raphael Fellowship. Her research and teaching focus on American politics and public policy, with an emphasis on organized interests, the policymaking process, social policy, and the...See more

Robin Phinney is Research Associate in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. in Public Policy and Political Science from the University of Michigan, where she received awards including the Ford Fellowship Award, Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, and Mary Malcomson Raphael Fellowship. Her research and teaching focus on American politics and public policy, with an emphasis on organized interests, the policymaking process, social policy, and the well-being of low-income families. She brings an interdisciplinary perspective to her scholarship, which has been published in leading journals of political science, public policy, and social work. See less