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Office: EncinaW 314
Email: segura@
Director of CHS
Professor of Political Science
Gary M. Segura is a Professor of American Politics and Chair of Chicano/a Studies in the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in American Politics and Political Philosophy from the University of Illinois in 1992. His work focuses on issues of political representation, and currently is focusing on the accessibility of government and politics to America’s growing Latino minority, as well as a book-length project on the links between casualties in international conflict and domestic politics.
Publications
Among his most recent publications are “The Mobilizing Effect of Majority-Minority Districts on Latino Turnout” (2004) and “Su Casa Es Nuestra Casa: Latino Politics Research and the Development of American Political Science,” (2007), both in the American Political Science Review, "Earth Quakes and After Shocks: Race, Direct Democracy, and Partisan Change," (2006) and “Race and the Recall: Racial Polarization in the California Recall Election,” (2008) both in the American Journal of Political Science, “Culture Clash? Contesting Notions of American Identity and the Effects of Latin American Immigration,” in Perspectives on Politics (2006), and “All Politics are Still Local: the Iraq War and the 2006 Midterm Election” in PS: Political Science and Politics (2008).
Earlier research has appeared in the Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, the National Civic Review, the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Rationality and Society, and his work has, on five occasions, been funded by the National Science Foundation. Segura was one of the co-Principal Investigator of the Latino National Survey, in 2006, and is the co-Principal Investigator of the “Spanish Translation and Latino Over-sample in the 2008 American National Election Study,” the first ever expansion of the ANES into systematic Spanish interviewing and over-sampling of Latino voters.
Affiliations
Segura is the President-elect of the Midwest Political Science Association and will serve as President in 2009-2010. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the American Journal of Political Science, and the Political Research Quarterly and a former member of the boards for the Journal of Politics and PS: Political Science and Politics.
He serves on the Board of Overseers of the American National Election Study for 2006-2009 and is a former executive council member of the American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association, and Western Political Science Association. In 2006, he was the General Program Chair of the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, and in 2004-2005, he served as President of El Sector Latino de la Ciencia Política (Latino Caucus in Political Science).
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