Álvaro J. Corral PhD

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 serve the field of political science at the national level in my roles as Communication Director for the APSA's Latino Caucus / Sector Latino and as a member of APSA's Status Committee on the Role of Latinas and Latinos in the Profession (2024 - 2027).

Since the Fall 2022 I have been in the role of Assistant Professor of Political Science at The University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley. Please visit my UTRGV faculty webpage for more information about my research and teaching. 

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.

Check out my recent 2024 pre-election and 2024 post-election blogs about Latinx voters for the LSE's American Politics blog. These serve as follow-ups to my analysis of of 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.