Speaker: Luis Ricardo Fraga, Stanford University

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Luis Ricardo Fraga is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. He is a native of Corpus Christi, Texas. He received his A.B. degree from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Rice University. He has published widely in scholarly journals and edited volumes. He is co-editor of Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Advanced Industrial Democracies (1992). He is currently completing two other book manuscripts. One is entitled The Changing Urban Regime: Toward an Informed Public Interest, a study of racial-ethnic representation in San Antonio, Texas, and the other is Missed Opportunities: The Politics of Schools in San Francisco. Among the places where he has given invited lectures are Harvard University, the University of Michigan, Duke University, Swarthmore College, the University of Southern California, California State University-Los Angeles, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. He is a past president of the Western Political Science Association and has served on the Executive Council of the American Political Science Association. He has received a number of teaching and advising awards at Stanford including the Rhodes Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (1993), the Dinkelspiel Award for Distinctive Contributions to Undergraduate Education (1995), the Allan V. Cox Medal for Faculty Excellence Fostering Undergraduate Research (1997), the Faculty Award from the Chicano/Latino Graduating Class (1993, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001), the Undergraduate Faculty Advisor of the Year Award (2001), and the Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) Teacher of the Year Award (2003). He was also given the Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Award for Exemplary Mentoring of Graduate Latina/o Students by the Committee on the Status of Latinos in the Profession of the American Political Science Association (2001). In 2003-04 he is a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, where he will be completing his study entitled "Gender and
Ethnicity: The Political Incorporation of Latina State Legislators." He is married to Charlene Aguilar and has three children Bernard (17), Isabel (15) and Tomás (2). Fraga lives with his wife and son Tomás in Palo Alto.

 
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