Rate My Professor Keith Bentele

Bentele's research interests encompass homelessness, evaluation research methods, quantitative methods, race and ethnicity, gender, public policy, inequality, and political sociology. His key publications include "Jim Crow 2.0?: Why States Consider and Adopt Restrictive Voter Access Policies" (Perspectives on Politics, 2013), "Rewinding Roe v. Wade: Understanding the Accelerated Adoption of State-Level Restrictive Abortion Legislation, 2008-2014" (Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, 2018), and more recent works such as "Access to Syringes at Pharmacies (ASAP): Preliminary Impact of a Pharmacy-Level Intervention" (Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, 2025) and "“I Don’t Want to Pass Away Like This”: A Qualitative Study of the Goals and Needs of People Experiencing Homelessness in Tucson, Arizona" (Community Health Equity Research & Policy, 2025). He has received the University of Arizona College of Social & Behavioral Sciences Outstanding Public Scholar Award (2015-2016), National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award (2006), and William K. Bunis Graduate Student Teaching Award (2007). As principal investigator or co-investigator on multiple grants, including from the Garcia Family Foundation and HUD, Bentele has produced over 50 reports on housing insecurity in Arizona and Pima County, influencing local homelessness prevention policies. He chairs the System Performance and Monitoring Committee for the Tucson Pima Continuum of Care.