Álvaro J. Corral PhD

As of Fall 2022 I began a new position as Assistant Professor of Political Science at The University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley. Please visit my UTRGV faculty webpage for more information. 

I earned my PhD from the Department of Government along with a graduate certificate from the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin in 2017.  I was the recipient of the 2023 "Emerging Scholar Award" from the Latino Caucus of the American Political Science Association and a recipient of the  2019 APSA Fund for Latino Scholarship.

I am an educator-scholar in U.S. politics with a focus on Latinx Politics, Immigration Policy, and issues of Race and Ethnicity in American Politics. My work has appeared in Political Science Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Politics & Gender, Social Science Quarterly, Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, Teachers College Record, and The Forum. I also serve as the Secretary for the MPSA Latina/o Caucus.

Check out my recent post about Latinx voters in the 2020 election in the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog here.

See my London School of Economics US Politics and Policy blog post on immigration policy from 2023 here and from 2020  here.