Valerie H. Hunt

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Associate Professor

University of Arkansas primary UA Little Rock

8 h-index 24 pubs 191 cited

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Valerie H. Hunt's research examines issues of inequality and public policy, with a particular focus on gender, race, and socioeconomic status. Her work has investigated gender-based pay inequality in U.S. state bureaucracies and reconsidered sex-based occupational segregation. Hunt has also studied employment patterns among principals in multiethnic U.S. school districts and analyzed employment trends for American Indian individuals in state and local governments. Other research areas include the implications of immigration provisions within the Violence Against Women Act for specific migrant populations and the commonalities between the War on Drugs and welfare reform in their impact on marginalized communities. Her scholarship also addresses the education of Dalit women and initiatives for institutional transformation, such as the NSF ADVANCE program. Hunt has an h-index of 8 and has published 27 works with 193 citations.

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h-index: 8
Publications: 24
Citations: 191

Positions

Associate Professor 2014–present

University of Arkansas Department of Political Science ORCID

Selected Publications

Intersectional Representation Among Employees in U.S. School Districts (2025)

Journal of Social Equity and Public Administration 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Ethnic/Racial Representation in Leadership Positions in US School Districts, 2002–2014: Are School Districts Achieving Parity? (2025)

Social Science Quarterly 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Half-Baked by Design? A Four-State Analysis of Gender-Based Occupational Segregation and Pay Inequities (2025)

Public Personnel Management 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Faculty Composition and Doctorates Awarded: An Analysis and Comparison of the Colleges of Engineering at ADVANCE Institutions and their Non-ADVANCE Peers (2001 - 2009) (2025)

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Women’s Representation in Employment Categories in U.S. School Districts, 2002 to 2014: Are School Districts Achieving Parity? (2024)

Public Administration Quarterly 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Developing Effective Recruitment Strategies for African American Men to Earn Alternative High School Credentials (2022)

Adult Learning 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
An Intersectional Approach to Public School Leadership: Employment Patterns among Principals in Multiethnic U. S. School Districts (2020)

Public Administration Quarterly 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
Transforming The Academic Workplace: An Evaluation Of The Advance Program In Colleges Of Engineering (2001 2008) (2020)

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Recruitment Strategies for Gender Equity: Lessons from Cohort 1 and Cohort 2 ADVANCE Institutions (2020)

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Remembering the Forgotten Minority: An Analysis of American Indian Employment Patterns in State and Local Government, 1991–2011 (2019)

American Indian Culture and Research Journal 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby, but You Still Have a Long Way to Go: Gender-Based Pay Inequality in U.S. State Bureaucracies, 1995-2015 (2019)

Public Personnel Management 12 citations DOI OpenAlex
Two Tales of Cities: Revisiting Sex-Based Occupational Segregation in U.S. Municipal Bureaucracies, 1991-2015 (2019)

Public Personnel Management 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Reconsidering Sex-Based Occupational Segregation and Agency Missions: An Analysis of U.S. State Bureaucracies (1987-2015) Using Two Different Thresholds (2019)

Administration & Society 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
Incarcerating Exceptional Pupils: Is There a School‐to‐Prison Pipeline in Eastern Oklahoma?* (2018)

Social Science Quarterly 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
Immigration Provisions in the Violence Against Women Act: Implications for Asian Indian Marriage Migrants (2017)

Journal of Women Politics & Policy 24 citations DOI OpenAlex