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Conferred by the University of Washington - 2014.

Recognition, Office of the Provost and Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity

Conferred "For seven years of outstanding leadership and commitment as Associate Vice Provost at the University of Washington"

Recognition, Latino/a Faculty Staff Association

Holy Rosary School, Tacoma Washington - 2013.

Juan Diego Award

American Political Science Association

Midwest Political Science Association

Southern Political Science Association

Western Political Science Association

Gender and Ethnicity: Patterns of Electoral Success and Legislative Advocacy Among Latina and Latino State Officials in Four States

Latinos in the New Millennium is the most current and comprehensive profile of Latinos in the United States: looking at their social characteristics, group relations, policy positions, and political orientations. The authors draw on information from the 2006 Latino National Survey (LNS), the largest and most detailed source of data on Hispanics in America. This book provides essential knowledge about Latinos, contextualizing research data by structuring discussion around many dimensions of Latino political life in the U.S. The encyclopedic range and depth of the LNS allows the authors to appraise Latinos' group characteristics, attitudes, behaviors, and their views on numerous topics. This study displays the complexity of Latinos, from recent immigrants to those whose grandparents were born in the United States.

Latinos in the New Millennium: An Almanac of Opinion, Behavior, and Policy Preferences

United States Government: Principles in Practice

Latinos are the largest and fastest growing ethnic group in the US, with increased levels of political mobilization and influence. In this book, Latino scholars explore the profound implications of Latinos' population growth and geographic dispersion for American politics and society.

Latino Lives in America: Making It Home

'Multiethnic Moments' examines school systems in four major US cities - Boston, Denver, Los Angeles and San Francisco - to uncover the factors that worked for and against ethnically-representative school change.

Multiethnic Moments: The Politics of Urban Education Reform

Voter turnout was unusually high in the 2004 U.S. presidential election. At first glance, that level of participation—largely spurred by war in Iraq and a burgeoning culture war at home—might look like vindication of democracy. If the recent past is any indication, however, too many Americans will soon return to apathy and inactivity. Clearly, all is not well in our civic life. Citizens are participating in public affairs too infrequently, too unequally, and in too few venues to develop and sustain a robust democracy. This important new book explores the problem of America's decreasing involvement in its own affairs.  D emocracy at Risk reveals the dangers of civic disengagement for the future of representative democracy. The authors, all eminent scholars, undertake three main tasks: documenting recent trends in civic engagement, exploring the influence that the design of political institutions and public policies have had on those trends, and recommending steps that will increase the amount and quality of civic engagement in America. The authors focus their attention on three key areas: the electoral process, including elections and the way people get involved; the impact of location, including demographic shifts and changing development patterns; and the critical role of nonprofit organizations and voluntary associations, including the philanthropy that help keep them going.This important project, initially sponsored by the American Political Science Association, tests the proposition that social science has useful insights on the state of our democratic life. Most importantly, it charts a course for reinvigorating civic participation in the world's oldest democracy.The authors: Stephen Macedo (Princeton University), Yvette Alex-Assensoh (Indiana University), Jeffrey M. Berry (Tufts), Michael Brintnall (American Political Science Association), David E. Campbell (Notre Dame), Luis Ricardo Fraga (Stanford), Archon Fung (Harvard), William A. Galston (University of Maryland), Christopher F. Karpowitz (Princeton), Margaret Levi (University of Washington), Meira Levinson (Radcliffe Institute), Keena Lipsitz (California–Berkeley), Richard G. Niemi (University of Rochester), Robert D. Putnam (Harvard), Wendy M. Rahn (University of Minnesota), Keith Reeves (Swarthmore), Rob Reich (Stanford), Robert R. Rodgers (Princeton), Todd Swanstrom (Saint Louis University), and Katherine Cramer Walsh (University of Wisconsin).

Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It

Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Advanced Industrial Democracies: (Contributions in Ethnic Studies) by Luis R Fraga (1992-04-30)

What legacy do we want to leave our children and grandchildren?

Institute for Latino Studies co-director wins career achievement award from Midwest Political Science Association’s Latino/a Caucus

Notre Dame to host an academic conference on Pope Francis in Cuba

‘Stakes are high’ in pope’s visit to Mexico, experts say

Political scientist Luis Fraga joins Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies

Luis Ricardo Fraga is the Director of the Institute for Latino Studies, Acting Chair of the Department of Political Science, Notre Dame Professor of Transformative Latino Leadership, Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science, and a Fellow at the Institute for Educational Initiatives. He has been on the faculty at the University of Washington, Stanford University, and the University of Oklahoma.

He received his A.B., cum laude, from Harvard University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Rice University. His primary interests are in American politics where he specializes in the politics of race and ethnicity, Latino politics, immigration policy, education politics, voting rights policy, and urban politics. He has published extensively in scholarly journals and edited volumes including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, The Journal of Politics, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Western Political Quarterly, Dubois Review, Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, and the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy. He is also completing the co-authored manuscript Invisible No More: Latino Identities in American Politics as well as The Changing Urban Regime: Toward an Informed Public Interest, a history of the political incorporation of Tejanos in San Antonio city politics from 1836-2009.

In 2011 President Barak Obama appointed him to the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. He was co-chair of the Postsecondary Education Subcommittee. In 2011, Hispanic Business named him one of the top “100 Influentials” in the U.S. In 2008 Governor Christine Gregoire appointed his to Washington’s New Americans Policy Council.  In 2013, Seattle Mayor Michael McGinn appointed him to the Immigrant Voting Rights Task Force where he served as co-chair. He is a past president of the Board of Directors of OneAmerica, an immigrant rights and advocacy organization based in Seattle, WA.

Fraga is also one of six principal investigators on the Latino National Survey (LNS), the first-ever state-stratified survey of Latinos in the U.S. The LNS asks questions regarding political attitudes, beliefs, behavior, and policy preferences. This project received $1.5M in support from major foundations and universities. Fraga has also received fifteen teaching, advising, mentoring, and service awards.

Latino Politics

Politics of Race

Politics of Ethnicity

Urban Politics

Educational Policy

Government Service

Public Service

Immigration Policy

Voting Rights Policy

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Department of Political Science

Institute For Latino Studies

Commencement Speakers Announced

In the District, jitters over impending Trump era

Students to Notre Dame president: Declare immigrant sanctuary

U.S. Latino voters flex, but fail to topple Trump

Latinos Go to The Polls, Some Serenaded by Mariachis

The Changing American Voter in 2016 and Beyond

Restructuring the Americano Dream: Latino Values and Identities in a New America

Education in the 21st Century: Building a Common Destiny

Responsibilities of Leadership: Empowering the Professoriate for the 21st Century

Building a Common Destiny and a Worthy Legacy: Education and Parent Engagement

The Politics of Education: The Impact of Latino School Board Representation on School Policy

The Latino National Survey (LNS) and Latino National Contextual Database (LNCD)

Director, Institute for Latino Studies; Acting Chair, Department of Political Science

Luis Ricardo Fraga is the Arthur Foundation Endowed Professor of Transformative Latino Leadership and Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His primary interests are in American politics where he specializes in the politics of race and ethnicity, Latino politics, immigration policy, education politics, voting rights policy, and urban politics.

Learn more: http://al.nd.edu/news/55438-video-political-scientist-on-latino-civic-engagement-in-america/
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Latino Civic Engagement in America - Luis Fraga, Professor of Political Science

Luis Ricardo Fraga is the Arthur Foundation Endowed Professor of Transformative Latino Leadership and Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His primary interests are in American politics where he specializes in the politics of race and ethnicity, Latino politics, immigration policy, education politics, voting rights policy, and urban politics.

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Luis Fraga, Arthur Foundation Endowed Professor of Transformative Latino Leadership

Luis Ricardo Fraga discusses how researchers can assist in producing knowledge that has law and policy implications for Latinos. Fraga is the Co-Director of the Institute for Latino Studies, Arthur Foundation Endowed Professor of Transformative Latino Leadership, and Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.

Fraga attended the inaugural Midwest Roundtable of "The Future of Latinos in the United States: Law, Opportunity, and Mobility," a research project of the American Bar Foundation. The roundtable took place on June 6-7, 2016, in Chicago, at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.

Learn more about the American Bar Foundation here: http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/

Learn more about Luis Ricardo Fraga here: http://politicalscience.nd.edu/faculty/faculty-list/luis-r-fraga/

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Luis Ricardo Fraga at the Midwest Roundtable of the Future of Latinos Project

President’s Lecture Series, featuring Luis Ricardo Fraga Part 2

Palestra de encerramento do Fórum Internacional 20 de novembro com o pró-reitor (Associate Vice Provost for Faculty) e professor de Ciências Políticas, da Universidade de Washington, Luis Ricardo Fraga.

Luis Ricardo Fraga - "Equidade e Excelência: Conceitos Complementares"

Today's reflection is given by Luis Ricardo Fraga, Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement and Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington.

Join us this Lent for a series of daily reflections featuring the University of Washington Catholic faculty, alumni, Newman Center community members and students, sharing experiences of their Lenten journey to strengthen fellow travellers on their way.

"Behold, I Make All Things New": March 6

The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America

Plenary: Race, Political Participation, and the Roberts Court

Moderator: Kerry Haynie (Duke University, Department of Political Science)

Panel: Ari Berman (The Nation), Richard Delgado (University of Alabama School of Law), Luis Ricardo Fraga (University of Notre Dame, Institute for Latino Studies), Pamela Karlan (Stanford Law School), Taeku Lee (University of California Berkeley Department of Political Science), Neil Siegel (Duke Law School)

Duke Law's Center on Law, Race and Politics hosted a conference on November 20-21, 2015, bringing together scholars and experts to discuss civil rights. In 2014, the nation marked the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Freedom Summer.  In 2015, we recognized the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  Moving into the 21st century, America finds itself at the beginning of a new era defined by its own set of civil rights struggles. 

A shifting landscape requires the civil rights movements of the 21st century to shift in line with modern realities. “The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America” presented an opportunity for scholars, teachers, practitioners, and activists to engage with each other as they discuss their unique perspectives on inequalities throughout different facets of modern America.

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