Annika comes to CCNY from Fordham University, where she was a Professor in the Department of Political Science. At Fordham, she also served as the Director of the Urban Studies Program from July 2016 through June 2024, and was a co-PI on the Initiative on Migrants, Migration, and Human Dignity, an interdisciplinary hub committed to cultivating student leaders in the field of migration, supporting faculty research, and building relationships and collaborating with migrant-serving organizations in New York City and at the U.S.-Mexico border. Her research and teaching focus on urban politics, immigration policy and social, racial and immigrant justice in cities. In addition to her journal articles, she has published several books on immigrant integration, and urban politics. She is the co-editor of the International Political Science Review and an editorial board member of the Urban Affairs Review. Annika has done field research in Canada, Germany, Turkey, and the United States and just finished writing a book about U.S. immigration policy. Originally from Berlin, Germany, she studied English, Modern History, and American Studies at Humboldt and the Free University of Berlin. She holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago. 

Research Interests: Immigration policy, identity politics, nationalism, urban and local politics, public policy, urban sustainability, urban development, levels of government, politics of gender

Annika Marlen Hinze & James M. Smith, editors. 2024. American Urban Politics in a Global Age. 8th edition. Routledge.

Annika Marlen Hinze & Dennis R. Judd. 2023. City Politics. Cities and Suburbs in the 21st Century. 11th edition. Routledge. 

Dennis R. Judd & Annika Marlen Hinze. 2018. City Politics. The Political Economy of Urban America. 10th edition. Routledge.

Annika Marlen Hinze. 2013. Turkish Berlin: Integration Policy and Urban Space. The University of Minnesota Press, Globalization and Community Series. (August 2013).

Journal articles:

Annika Marlen Hinze. 2026. “Dangerous City: Territorial Stigmatization, Crime, and Political Discourse.” Urban Affairs Review. 62(3), pp. 751-788.

Annika Marlen Hinze, Daniel Stockemer, Theresa Reidy. 2026. “The Predation Index: A tool to discover predatory journals.” PS: Political Science & Politics, 59(1), pp. 158-164.

Annika Marlen Hinze. 2024. “Made for Men: Political Science Departments in the United States as Gendered Institutions.” Politics & Gender 20(1), 102-136.

Annika Marlen Hinze & James M. Smith. 2020. “Comparative Approaches to Development Politics and the Quest for a More Robust Theory: New Institutions of Governance in Chicago and Berlin.” PS: Political Science & Politics. 53(1), 10-14.

Kendra Koivu & Annika Marlen Hinze. 2017. “Cases of Convenience? The Divergence of Theory from Practice in Case Selection in Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research.” PS: Political Science & Politics 50(4), 1023-1027.

Sherri Grasmuck & Annika Marlen Hinze. 2016. “Transnational Heritage Migrants in Istanbul: Second Generation Turk-American and Turk-German ‘Returnees’ in Their Parents’ Homeland.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 42(12), 1959-1976. 

Annika Marlen Hinze & James M. Smith, guest editors. 2013. Special Issue: “Into the 21st Century: North American Urban Governance and Development in a Global Context.” Urban Research and Practice 6(3).

John M. French & Annika Marlen Hinze. 2010. “From the Inside Out: Citizenship and Democracy in Multinational States.” Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 10(2), 255-270.

Book Chapters: 

Annika Marlen Hinze & James M. Smith. 2026. “Private Interests, Public Institutions: Large-Scale Urban Development in Berlin and Chicago.” In: Global Urban Policy: A Framework for Analysis. David Kaufmann & Mara Sidney, editors. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. 

Annika Marlen Hinze. 2024. “Whose neighborhood, whose city, whose country? Visible and invisible Turkish diasporic spaces in Berlin and New York City.” In: Routledge Handbook of Turkey’s Diasporas. Banu Senay & Ayca Arkilic, eds. London & New York: Routledge. 

Annika Marlen Hinze. 2023. “Media Coverage of Islam in Germany and the United States in the Age of Polarization.” In: Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Global Muslim Societies, Eric Tagliacozzo & David S. Powers, editors. Ithaca. NY: Cornell University Press. 

Annika Marlen Hinze. 2021. “Urban Citizenship and Governance.” In: Companion to Urban and Regional Studies, Anthony Orum, Javier Ruiz-Tagle, Serena Vicari, editors. London: Wiley-Blackwell.

Other commentary:

How to build climate change resilience in urban heat islands. TEDx Fordham: Propelling Humanity Forward, April 7, 2025. 

Gregory T. Donovam, Leo Guardado, Annika Marlen Hinze, Carey Kasten, Sarah P. Lockhart & James McCartin. 2024. “Accompaniment as Institutional Practice: A Transdisciplinary Initiative Bridging Fordham University and the US-Mexico Border.” Best Practices in Jesuit Higher Education 5:1: Solidarity with Migrants and Refugees, pp. 7-16. 

Annika Marlen Hinze. 2016. “Sold Overnight: Istanbul’s gecekondu Housing and the Challenge of Ownership.” Governing Megacities in the MENA and Asia, essay series for the Middle East-Asia Project (MAP).