Areas of Specialization:

• American Politics
• Public Policy
• Minority Politics
• Immigration Policy

Recent Publications:

• “Congress and Immigration Reform: Is Now the Time? Extensions: Journal of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center. University of Oklahoma. (2013)
• Illegal, Alien, or Immigrant:  The Politics of Immigration Reform (New York:  New York University Press, 2008).
• “‘It is Not a Question of Being Anti-immigration’: Categories of Deservedness in Immigration Policymaking,” in A.Schneider and H. Ingram eds. Deserving and Entitled: Social Constructions and Public Policy (SUNY Press 2005).
• “Why Some Latinos Supported Proposition 187: Testing the Economic Threat and Cultural Identity Hypotheses,” Social Science Quarterly 81(1) (2000): 180-193.