Manuel Avalos Vice-Provost for Research and Faculty Development Associate Professor, Political Science

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Manuel Avalos ( P.h.D. ) is an Associate Professor in thee Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University West. He is also the Vice-Provost for Research and Faculty Development and the Associate Director of the Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University West. He received his doctoral degree at the University of New Mexico and did postdoctoral work at the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His current research focuses on questions of racial inequality in the Americas, and the political incorporation of the Latino electorate at the state, local and national level. He is currently working on the completion of an analysis of the impact of the Latino vote on the 2000 Presidential election with special emphasis on Arizona and the impact of the 2000 political redistricting process on Latino political representation in Arizona. His recent publications have appeared in Sociological Perspectives, the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, the Policy Studies Journal, Roberto De Anda, ed., Chicanas and Chicanos in Contemporary Society,, and in Rodolfo de la Garza and Louis DeSipio, eds. Ethnic Ironies. He was a founding member and co-chair in 1997-98 of the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics. He has recently been nominated to serve on the Executive Council of American Political Science Association and has served as chair of the Western Political Science Association's Committee on the Status of Chicana/os in the Profession. Dr. Avalos teaches courses on American national government, quantitative research methods, Latino politics, race and politics and on the ways in which science fiction literature impacts political futures. In the Fall semester of 2003 he is offering a hybrid course POL 440 Political Futures through Science Fiction.

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