Arrived at SNC in 2017 and has continued his focus on racial & ethnic politics and political psychology. He often relies on survey experiments to test hypotheses related to identity and politics.

His first book, titled "Latino Identity and Political Attitudes: Why are Latinos not Republican?" focused on Latino Panethnicity and the impact it has on partisanship. In the book, the concept of dual and multiple identities helped explain how Latinos can feel attachments to their country of origin or legacy, to the United States, and to the millions of people who identify as Hispanic, Latino@, Latina, Latino and Latinx.

An extension of the concept of multiple identities was developed by researchers Marilyn Brewer and Sonia Roccas and they called it "identity complexity" which suggests people see their identity as multiple overlapping identities. But Ángel proposes that intersectionality as an identity should be conceived as a "compartmentalized" identity whereas a complex identity means that an individual coexists within many social identities that overlap in the individual.

It is this idea that furthers our interest in a lab that seeks to understand how to increase connectedness among Americans, reduce prejudice, and create more equitable policy outcomes.