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Greg Markus's research, teaching, and public work focus on practical approaches to building political power from the bottom up. He recently led a research team in a four-year, 14-city study of public participation in America and is writing a book about the study's findings. He has worked for more than 25 years with organizations at the local, state, national and international levels that build the capacities of individuals and communities to address public issues. Markus serves as board chair of the Harriet Tubman Center for Community Organizing and works pro bono as the founding organizer of the Detroit Action Commonwealth, an organization of more than 400 Detroiters, most of them indigent, who meet at the Capuchin Soup Kitchen on the city's east side. Before that he served as vice president of MOSES, a community-organizing project based in Detroit that is affiliated with the Gamaliel Foundation. He also serves as faculty advisor to the U-M student organization The Detroit Partnership. He is a past recipient of the Socio-Psychological Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Amoco Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Tronstein Prize. In 2006-07 he was a fellow of the National Center for Institutional Diversity. Markus received his PhD (political science) from the University of Michigan in 1975 and joined the U-M faculty that same year. He is a veteran of 15 Ironman triathlons, most recently the 2008 Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Selected Publications
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