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Juli谩n Jefferies is assistant professor in the Department of Literacy and Reading Education at California State University, Fullerton. He is interested in the daily lives of immigrant youth in schools and their representation in the media. Focusing on the experiences of undocumented youth, his research uncovers how society as a whole and schools in particular deal with the migration status of their students and how meritocratic ideologies work to justify the opportunity gaps for Latina/o youth in education. He has published on the framing of immigrant youth in public opinion and is currently working on research that alerts educators in K-12 institutions and policymakers on how to best serve undocumented youth in their schools. He is also interested in the pedagogy of international and experiential learning opportunities and coordinates a summer program in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, where he investigates how students gain cross-cultural competence and re-think their national, gender, ethnic and cultural identities.

Assistant Professor of Literacy and Reading Education
Director, Puerto Rico International Education (PRIE) Program
Director, Guadalajara Transnational Migration Program
Faculty Coordinator, Elevar Scholars, SOAR Grant

An assistant professor in the Department of Politics at Ithaca College鈥檚 School of Humanities and Sciences, Figueroa can discuss U.S. political issues, including presidential leadership, racial, religious and working class politics, U.S.-Puerto Rico policy, and immigration/border politics.

Figueroa鈥檚 academic research focuses on American political development; race, religion and citizenship; Black American politics and political thought; Latino politics and border studies; public leadership; and U.S. Quakers. He is currently finishing a book on Quakers, race and U.S. Empire. His research also focuses on Bayard Rustin, a Black, gay, Quaker labor and civil rights activist of the 1940s through 1980s. He is also working on a project about the everyday 鈥渓ived experiences鈥� of people who study and/or work near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Dr. Timothy Dunn, Salisbury University professor of sociology, has conducted extensive research into U.S.-Mexico border security, resulting in two books: The Militarization of the U.S. Mexico Border, 1978-1992: Low-Intensity Conflict Doctrine Comes Home and Blockading the Border and Human Rights: The El Paso Operation that Remade Immigration Enforcement. He also co-edited The Handbook of Human Security, Borders and Migration. In addition, Dunn has studied Latinx immigration on the Delmarva Peninsula. He has been featured on multiple national media platforms including National Public Radio鈥檚 Radiolab.

Assistant Professor in the Political Science department at Wellesley College and an affiliate of the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy at Brown University. My research focuses on race and ethnicity politics, public opinion, campaigns and elections, and experimental and survey methodology. My articles have been published or are forthcoming in Political Research Quarterly, Politics Groups and Identities, and Journal of Education and Social Policy. 

鈥婱y book project, Changing Temptations: The Evolution of Racialized Messaging in the Obama and Trump Eras, explains the causes and consequences of racial appeals in U.S. politics. I propose a theory of differential norms, in which different histories of racial politics have generated different norms of acceptable rhetoric targeting blacks, Latinos, and Muslims. Using original survey experiments, I show that the effectiveness of explicit racial appeals varies systematically by the group being targeted: explicit appeals to racial prejudice increase support for Republican candidates who target Latinos and Muslims but not blacks, whereas explicit appeals to racial equality increase support for Democratic candidates. These results suggest greater attention to target groups is essential for understanding how racial appeals work and help to explain the contours of racial priming in contemporary American political discourse. 

Professor Rogerson Directs the Immigration Law Clinic, an experiential course through which students represent immigrant victims of crime including child abuse and neglect, domestic violence and sexual assault. 

Her students also regularly participate in related legislative advocacy and community outreach initiatives. Professor Rogerson worked as a public interest attorney in Newark, New Jersey and has represented immigrant adults and children in cases involving torture, domestic violence, and human trafficking at a human rights non-profit in Dallas, Texas. 

Her scholarship is focused on the intersections between domestic violence, family law, race, gender, international law and immigration law and policy.

Louis DeSipio examines how democratic nations incorporate new members, including policymaking in the areas of immigration and voting rights. He also studies Latino political behavior.

Professor Chavez received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Although he began his academic career as a Latin Americanist, conducting research in Ecuador, he has been working on transnational migration since the1980s. He is the author of Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society (1st edition 1992; 3rd Edition, Wadsworth/Cengage Learning 2013), which examined life among undocumented immigrants in San Diego, California. His research then moved into medical care issues such as access to medical care, cultural beliefs and use of medical services, and cancer-related issues among Mexican and Salvadoran immigrant women, U.S.-born Mexican American women, and Anglo women in Orange County, California.

Chavez鈥檚 research moved into an analysis of media representations, focusing on immigration. His book, Covering Immigration: Popular Images and the Politics of the Nation (University of California Press 2001), examined magazine covers and their related articles from 1965 to the end of 1999. Although that research was located in national media, it did include a survey of students at UCI and their reactions to the media images covered in the book (Chapter 9).

Out of that work on media came The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation (Stanford University Press, 1st edition 2008; 2nd edition 2013). This book focused on media representations of Mexicans, Mexican-origin people in the United States, and Latinos in general. Included in the book was an analysis of data collected in a random sample of Latinos and Anglos in Orange County, California, which was used to refute many of the claims in the Latino threat narrative so prevalent in political rhetoric found in the media. The Latino Threat was also recently published in Spanish by El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, in Mexico. The theme of the children of immigrants was the subject of Chavez鈥檚 most recent book Anchor Babies and the Challenge of Birthright Citizenship (Stanford University Press, 2017).

Chavez received the Margaret Mead Award in 1993, the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists鈥� Book Award for The Latino Threat in 2009, and the Society for the Anthropology of North America鈥檚 award for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America in 2009. He was elected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2018. He received the Malinowski Award from the Society for Applied Anthropology in 2020.

Daniel J. Tichenor has published six books and more than 50 journal articles and chapters on the politics of immigration and citizenship policy, presidential power and its relationship to liberal democracy and the influence of interest groups and social movements on representative government. At the University of Oregon, he serves as the Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Science and Senior Faculty Fellow at the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. 

Tichenor has been a faculty scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University, research fellow in Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institute, Abba P. Schwartz Fellow in Immigration and Refugee Policy at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, and research scholar at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. He regularly gives public lectures and has testified and provided expert briefings to Congress on immigration policy and immigrant integration. 

Dr. Michelle Hale Williams, professor of political science and interim vice provost, teaches and does research on world elections, political parties, European politics, democracy and democratization, radicalism and extremism in politics, race and ethnicity, immigration and multicultural societies, international relations, and social science research methods. 

Williams credits an undergraduate study abroad experience in Vienna, Austria, with providing the spark that turned her focus toward geopolitical fault lines in Europe. During this time abroad, she witnessed the emergence of small political parties 鈥� environmental Greens and the Freedom Party 鈥� taking center stage in Austria鈥檚 national elections in 1991, as well as in other countries in Europe. This experience provided the framework for her continued research on far-right parties, European politics, and nationalism and ethnic politics.

In her book, 鈥淭he Multicultural Dilemma: Migration, Ethnic Politics, and State Intermediation,鈥� Williams and other experts explore the contemporary challenge of government in multicultural societies, and examine how ethnic difference could be better understood and mediated by modern nation states. She also wrote, 鈥淭he Impact of Radical Right-wing Parties in West European Democracies,鈥� a book that assesses the influence far-right parties have in setting the tone of political debates, shaping the political party system and structuring government policy.

Williams, who is an editorial review board member for the German publication series, Explorations of the Far Right, has published numerous scholarly articles in Party Politics, Ethnic and Racial Studies, An谩lise Social, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, German Politics, PS: Political Science and Politics, and the Journal of Political Science Education. In addition to her academic work, she is frequently invited to present at national and international conferences for the American Political Science Association, Council for European Studies and the International Studies Association.

In 2001, she was named a TIRES fellow for the University of Viadrina in Frankfurt-Oder, Germany, near Berlin, on a competitive fellowship that provided a year-long research appointment at the university. While there she worked with internationally renowned scholars of political extremism and right-wing radicalism. 

Williams received bachelor鈥檚 degrees in political science and English from Wake Forest University, a master鈥檚 degree in political science from Villanova University, and a doctorate degree in political science from the University of Colorado.

Regina Bateson is an assistant professor in the political science department. She studies violence and politics, the rule of law, and problems of democracy. Geographically, she focuses on Latin America (especially Guatemala) and the United States. 
Regina's work has been published in the American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, The Journal of Politics, the Journal of Peace Research, Comparative Political Studies, and other outlets. Her research has won several awards, including the American Political Science Association's Heinz Eulau Award and the Gabriel A. Almond Award for the best dissertation in comparative politics. 
Regina earned her BA in history from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in political science from Yale University, with support from an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Prior to her academic career, she was a Foreign Service Officer for the US Department of State.