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Lisa García Bedolla Associate Professor Language and Literacy, Society and Culture Office: 5639 Tolman Hall Phone: 643-9824 Email: lgarciab at berkeley.edu URL:

Staff Contact: Susana Flores
Office: 5529 Tolman
Phone: (510) 643-2496
Email: susana at berkeley.edu

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isa García Bedolla's research interests center around the civic engagement, community activity, and political incorporation of racial/ethnic groups in the United States, with a particular focus on the intersections of race, class, and gender. This interest has led her to engage in an in-depth ethnographic study of Latina/o civic engagement in two southern California communities, a large-scale experimental study of voter education and mobilization in central and southern California, and a historical exploration of the race, gender, and class inequality at the heart of the founding of California's public school system.

She is author of Latino Politics (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2009) and Fluid Borders: Latino Power, Identity, and Politics in Los Angeles (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005) which won the American Political Science Association's Ralph Bunche Award for the best book in political science on ethnic and cultural pluralism and a best book award from the American Political Science Association's Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section. She also is co-author (with Melissa Michelson) of the forthcoming Mobilizing Inclusion: Redefining Citizenship through Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns (New Haven: Yale University Press). Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Politics, JESPAR, Politics and Gender, Latino Studies, the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, and in numerous edited volumes. She has received fellowships and grants from the National Science Foundation, UCLA's Institute of American Cultures, the James Irvine Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Huntington Library, and the American Political Science Association.

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Degrees

Ph.D., Yale University, Political Science
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Latin American Studies and Comparative Literature

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Areas of Specialization / Interests

Achievement Issues
At-Risk Youth
Bilingual Education
Cultural Studies
Democratic Education
Diversity
Educational Equity
Ethnic Issues
Gender Equity
History of Education
Immigrant Issues
Minorities
Multicultural Education
Participatory Research
Politics of School Structure and Governance
Public Engagement
Qualitative Methods
School-University Collaboration
Service Learning and Experiential Education
Urban Schooling

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