Ana Oaxaca-Carrasco
Position title: Assistant Professor of Political Science
Email: oaxacacarras@wisc.edu
Website: Ana Oaxaca-Carrasco's website
Ana Oaxaca-Carrasco is a political scientist , studying the intersection of immigration, representation, and urban politics in U.S. municipalities. Her dissertation investigated the impact of a seemingly nationalized electorate on local elite behavior on the issue of immigration and examines the strategic decision-making process by municipal officials that leads to inequality in representation for immigrant constituencies.
Her research has been supported by the Princeton Bobst Center for Peace and Justice Dissertation Scholars Program, the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, the Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, the APSA Centennial Center Research Grant, the APSA Fund for Latino Scholarship, and the UCLA Political Psychology Fellowship.
She holds an MA in Political Science from UCLA and a BA in Political Science with a minor in Economics from The University of New Mexico.