David Leal

David L. Leal is Professor of Government and Faculty Associate of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.  His primary academic interest is Latino politics, and his work explores questions involving public policy, public opinion, and political behavior. He has published over three dozen articles in political science and interdisciplinary journals such as Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Political Behavior, Electoral Studies, Social Science Quarterly, and Armed Forces and Society.  He is also the co-editor of seven books, including Immigration and Public Opinion in Liberal Democracies (2013, Routledge), Immigration and the Border: Politics and Policy in the New Latino Century (2013, University of Notre Dame Press), and Latinos and the Economy (2011, Springer). He is a member of the editorial boards of Political Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, American Politics Research, and Education Next.  He was named a Distinguished Alumni Scholar by Stanford University in 2013, and he was a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer in Japan in July of 2014. He has also served as Co-Chair of the American Political Science Association’s Committee on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in the Profession, a member of the APSA’s Task Force on Religion and American Democracy, and as an APSA Congressional Fellow in the office of a U.S. Senator.  He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 1998.