Tony Robinson

Tony Robinson smiling
Department Chair • Associate Professor
Political Science
tony.robinson@ucdenver.edu

Physical Office Location: Student Commons Building, Office #3228
1201 Larimer Street
Denver, CO 80204

Dr. Tony Robinson received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, with an emphasis on the challenges of inner-city poverty and how grass-roots community organizing can address those challenges. At CU Denver, he specialized building connections between the resources of the university and surrounding urban communities. Dr. Robinson directs the CU in the Capitol legislative internship program, coordinates student research internships with a variety of community groups, teaches a study abroad summer session in South Korea, and a GIS in Political Science course teaching students to use the sophisticated computer mapping abilities of CU Denver’s Facility for Advanced Spatial Technologies as a research method.

Expertise Areas: American Political Institutions, Poverty and Politics, Urban Politics, American Political Thought, Grassroots Empowerment, and Social Movements