Vice President, Research
Rodolfo de la Garza, Ph.D.

Areas of expertise: Immigration, immigrant settlement and political incorporation

Rodolfo O. de la Garza, Vice President of Research at the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute, is a professor of political science at Columbia University. Dr. de la Garza combines interests in political behavior and public policy. In political behavior he specializes in ethnic politics, with particular emphasis on Latino public opinion and electoral involvement. His primary interests in public policy include immigration and immigrant settlement and incorporation.

Currently he is directing studies on immigrant incorporation, Latinos and U. S. foreign policy and Latino voting patterns. Professor de la Garza has published in the American Journal of Political Science, Latin American Research Review, Social Science Quarterly, and International Migration Review. He has edited, co-edited, and co-authored numerous books, including:

•Sending Money Home: Hispanic Remittances and Community Development
•Latinos and U. S. Foreign Policy: Lobbying for the Homeland
•Awash in the Mainstream: Latinos and the 1996 Elections
•The Impact of Ethnicity and Socialization on Definitions of Democracy: The Case of Mexican •Americans and Mexicans in Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos
•Muted Voices: Latinos and the 2000 Election (2004)

A native of Tucson, Dr. de la Garza completed his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in 1972. In 1993, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Committee on the Status on Latinos in the Profession of the American Political Science Association.