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University of California, Los Angeles

Political Science Social Science Law Race, Ethnicity and Politics Representation and Electoral Systems Political Methodology National Politics

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Matt Barreto is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, holding a joint appointment in the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies since joining the institution in 2015. Prior to UCLA, he served as Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington from 2014 to 2015, Associate Professor from 2009 to 2014, and Assistant Professor from 2005 to 2009, while also directing the Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the Center for Democracy and Voting Rights at the UW School of Law. Barreto earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine in 2005, with subfields in American Politics, Race, Ethnicity and Politics, and Methodology; his dissertation, Ethnic Cues: The Role of Shared Ethnicity in Latino Political Participation, was supported by Ford Foundation and University of California President’s Dissertation Fellowships. He also holds a Master of Science in Social Science from UCI in 2003 and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Eastern New Mexico University in 1998, graduating summa cum laude with a 3.9 GPA.