Marisa A. Abrajano University of California San Diego Voice: (858) 534-7201 Department of Political Science Fax: (858) 534-7130 9500 Gilman Drive #0521 Email: mabrajano@ucsd.edu La Jolla, CA 92093 Homepage: http://dss.ucsd.edu/~mabrajan/ Academic Appointments Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California San Diego, 2006- Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University, 2005-2006 Lecturer, Department of Politics, New York University, Summer 2005 Teaching Assistant, Department of Politics, New York University, 2001-02, 2004-05 Education Ph.D. New York University, Department of Politics, 2005 The Role of Political Information in Candidate Advertising Strategies and Voter Decision-Making: An Examination of Spanish-Language vs. English-Language Campaigns in the 2000 Presidential Elections." Jonathan Nagler (Chair), R. Michael Alvarez, Neal Beck, Anna Harvey and Rebecca Morton. M.A. New York University, Department of Politics, 2002 The Impact of Nativity on Latino Voting Behavior in the United States. B.A. University of California Los Angeles, Political Science, 1999 Publications -Books- Campaigning to the New American Electorate: Television Advertising to Latinos, forthcoming (2010), Stanford University Press. New Faces, New Voices: The Hispanic Electorate in America (with R. Michael Alvarez), forthcoming (2010), Princeton University Press.
-Journal Articles- Assessing the Causes and Effects of Political Trust Amongst U.S. Latinos (with R. Michael Alvarez), American Politics Research, forthcoming. Examining the Link Between Issue Attitudes and News Source: The Case of Latinos and Immigration (with Simran Singh), Political Behavior 2009, 31(1):1-30. The Hispanic Vote in the 2004 Presidential Election: Insecurity and Moral Concerns (with R. Michael Alvarez and Jonathan Nagler), The Journal of Politics, April 2008, 70(2): 368-382. Race Based vs. Issue Voting: A Natural Experiment' (with R. Michael Alvarez and Jonathan Nagler), Political Research Quarterly, June 2005, 58:203-218. Who Evaluates a Presidential Candidate by Using Non-Policy Campaign Messages? Political Research Quarterly, March 2005, 58:55-67. -Book Chapters- Get Me To the Polls on Time: Latino Mobilization and Turnout in the 2000 Election. 2008. (with Rodolfo O. de la Garza and Jeronimo Cortina), in Jane Junn and Kerry Haynie, eds, New Race Politics: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Politics, New York: Cambridge University Press. Works in Progress Agenda Setting, Public Opinion, and the Issue of Immigration Reform. (with Johanna Dunaway and Regina Branton) Using Social Construction Theory to Explain Congressional Debates over Welfare and Immigration Reform (with Chad Murphy and Jackie Filla). A Method of Linking Surveys Using Affective Signatures with an Application to Racial/Ethnic Groups in the U.S. (with Keith T. Poole) Teaching Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, graduate level Introduction to American Politics, undergraduate level Latino Politics in the U.S., undergraduate level Race and Ethnicity in American Politics, undergraduate level
Comparative Political Incorporation, undergraduate level Grants and Awards University of California Latino Studies Research Initiative, $4,000, Summer 2008. UCSD, Faculty Career Development Grant, $6,568, 2008-2009. UCSD, Academic Senate Committee on Research (COR) Grant, $10,377.04, 2008-2009. UCSD, Academic Senate, Travel to Professional Meeting, 2007, 2008. Award for Best Poster, All Style and No Substance? Campaign Advertising for Latinos and Anglos in the U.S., 2004 Political Methodology Conference, Stanford, CA, July 2004. Doctoral Dissertation Grant in Political Science, ``Campaign Advertising Strategies for Anglos and Latinos in the U.S.", National Science Foundation, $11,669, June 2004. MacCracken Fellowship, New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2000-2005. Dean's Fellowship, New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2000-2005. Travel Grant, American Political Science Association Fund for Latino Scholarship, August 2003. NYU Department of Politics Summer Grant, used to attend the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, University of Michigan, Summer 2003. Bradley Fellowship, New York University, Department of Politics, 2002-2003. Invited Talks and Conferences Cornell University, ``Heterogeneity and Homogeneity in Public Opinion." Ithaca, NY, October, 2008. UCSD, Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies, Conference on Mexican Assimilation in the U.S." May 16, 2008. UCSD, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, State and Local Immigration Policy in the U.S: An Interdisciplinary Research Workshop. May 9, 2008. UCSD, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, Research Seminar Series, January 2008. University of California Riverside, American Politics Seminar, November 2006. University of California Irvine, Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Colloquium, October 2006.
Conference Papers A Method of Linking Surveys Using Affective Signatures with an Application to Racial/Ethnic Groups in the U.S. " (with Keith T. Poole), prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2008. Why are Latinos More Politically Trusting than Other Americans?" (with R. Michael Alvarez), prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Diego, CA, March 2008. Agenda Setting, Public Opinion, and the Issue of Immigration Reform", prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 2007. The Relationship between Issue Attitudes and News Source: The Case of Latinos and Immigration Reform", prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2007. Examining the Content of Televised Campaign Ads: Who You Target Matters, prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 2006. The Hispanic Vote in the 2004 Presidential Election: Insecurity and Moral Concerns" (with R. Michael Alvarez and Jonathan Nagler), prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2006 and for the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Albuquerque, NM, March 2006. The Role of Information in Elections and Campaign Advertising", prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2005. All Style and No Substance? Campaign Advertising for Minority Voters (with Rebecca B. Morton), prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2004. Is Abortion A Wedge Issue for Latino Voters? (with d R. Michael Alvarez and Jonathan Nagler), prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, September 2002. Get Me To the Polls on Time: Latino Mobilization and Turnout in the 2000 Election'' (with Rodolfo O. de la Garza), prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, September 2002. Professional Activities Committee Member, Best Paper Award, 2008 Western Political Science Conference.
Discussant, American Political Science Conference, 2006, 2007, 2008. Discussant, Western Political Science Conference, 2006, 2008. Discussant, Midwest Political Science Conference, 2006, 2007, 2008. Member, Committee on Latinos in the South, Western Political Science Association 2006- Speaker, Project for Equity, Representation, and Governance, Texas A &M University California State Assembly Fellow, 1999-2000 University Service Co-coordinator, UCSD Department of Political Science, American Politics and Institutions Project Speaker Series, 2008-2010. Member, Panel of Counselors, 2007-2008 Member, Space Committee, 2007 - Faculty speaker, Summer Transition Enrichment Program, 2007-2008 Faculty speaker, Summer Bridge Program, 2007-2008 Faculty speaker, Office of Academic Support and Instructional Services Community Learning Faculty Panels, 2008 Reviewer, California Cultures Graduate Summer Fellowships, 2007-2008 Faculty member, California Cultures in Comparative Perspective, 2006- Advisory committee member, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, 2006- References R. Michael Alvarez, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology Lisa Garcia Bedolla, Graduate School of Education, University of California Berkeley Jonathan Nagler, Department of Politics, New York University Keith T. Poole, University of California, San Diego