Lisa García Bedolla

Associate Professor *
Degrees: 
Ph.D., Yale University, Political Science
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Latin American Studies and Comparative Literature
Profile: 

Professor García Bedolla’s research focuses on how marginalization and inequality structure the political and educational opportunities available to members of ethnoracial groups, with a particular emphasis on the intersections of race, class, and gender. These interests have led her to engage in an in-depth qualitative study of Latina/o civic engagement in two southern California communities, a large-scale experimental study of voter education and mobilization in central and southern California, and a historical exploration of the race, gender, and class inequality at the heart of the founding of California's public school system.

She is author of Fluid Borders: Latino Power, Identity, and Politics in Los Angeles (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005) which won the American Political Science Association's (APSA) Ralph Bunche Award and a best book award from APSA's Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section, and Latino Politics (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2009), winner of a best book award from APSA's Latino Caucus. She also is co-author (with Melissa Michelson) of Mobilizing Inclusion: Transforming the Electorate through Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012). Her work has appeared in numerous academic journals and edited volumes. She has received fellowships and grants from the National Science Foundation, UCLA's Institute of American Cultures, the James Irvine Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Huntington Library, and the American Political Science Association.

CV: 
Garcia Bedolla.cv_.3.4.2013.pdf
Office: 
5639 Tolman Hall
Phone: 
(510) 643-9824
Email: 
lgarciab@berkeley.edu

Research

Selected Publications

     BOOKS

García Bedolla, L. 2013. Latino Politics, 2nd edition. Cambridge, UK: Polity.

García Bedolla, L. and M. R. Michelson. 2012. Mobilizing Inclusion: Transforming the Electorate through Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns. New Haven: Yale University Press.

García Bedolla, L. 2009. Latino Politics. Cambridge, UK: Polity.

García Bedolla, L. 2005. Fluid Borders: Latino Power, Identity, and Politics in Los Angeles. Berkeley: University of California Press.

JOURNAL ARTICLES, PEER-REVIEWED

García Bedolla, L. 2012. “Latino Education, Civic Engagement, and the Public Good.” Review of Research in Education 36: 23-42.

García Bedolla, L. 2010. “Good Ideas Are Not Enough: Considering the Politics Underlying Students’ Postsecondary Transitions.” Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk (JESPAR) 15 (1 & 2): 9-26.

Michelson, M. R., L. García Bedolla, and M. McConnell.  2009. “Heeding the Call: The Effect of Targeted Two-Round Phonebanks on Voter Turnout.” Journal of Politics 71 (4): 1549-1563.

García Bedolla, L. and M. R. Michelson. 2009. “What Do Voters Need to Know? Testing the Role of Cognitive Information in Asian American Voter Mobilization.” American Politics Research 37 (2): 254-274.

García Bedolla, L., J. Lavariega Monforti, and A. Pantoja. 2007. “A Second Look: The Latina/o Gender Gap.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 28 (3 & 4): 147-171.

García Bedolla, L. and B. Scola. 2006. “Finding Intersection: Race, Class, and Gender in the California Recall Vote.” Politics and Gender 2 (1): 5-27.

Alvarez, R. M. and L. García Bedolla. 2004. “The Revolution against Affirmative Action in California: Politics, Economics, and Proposition 209.”State Politics and Policy Quarterly 4 (1): 1-17.

García Bedolla, L. 2003. “The Identity Paradox: Latino Language, Politics, and Selective Dissociation.” Latino Studies 1 (2): 264-283.

Alvarez, R. M. and L. García Bedolla. 2003. “The Foundations of Latino Voter Partisanship: Evidence from the 2000 Elections.” Journal of Politics 65 (1): 31-49.

García Bedolla, L. 2000. “They and We: Identity, Gender, and Politics among Latino Youth in Los Angeles.” Social Science Quarterly 81 (1): 106-222.

JOURNAL ARTICLES, OTHER

García Bedolla, L. 2011. “Educating Immigrant Children: the American DREAM Deferred?” Teachers College Record, http://www.tcrecord.orgID Number: 16310.

García Bedolla, L. 2009. “Why U.S. Foreign Policy Matters: Latino Migration to the United States.” Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies (spring): 50-55.

García Bedolla, L. 2007. “Intersections of Inequality: Understanding Marginalization and Privilege in the Post Civil-Rights Era.” Politics and Gender 3 (2): 232-248.

García Bedolla, L. 2005. “The Gender, Race, and Ethnic Implications of Initiative Policymaking in California.” California Policy Issues Annual 6: 21-33.

García Bedolla, L. 2005. “Resources and Civic Engagement: the Importance of Social Capital for Latino Political Incorporation.” Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy 17: 41-54.

García Bedolla, L. and C. Uhlaner. 2004. “Is the Personal Political? Gender, Sexual Misconduct, and the California Recall.” PS: Political Science and Politics 37 (1): 15-18.

BOOK CHAPTERS

García Bedolla, L. “Still Mariachi Politics: Latinos and the Obama Administration,” in Mark Ledwidge, Inderjeet Parmar, and Kevern Verney, eds., Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America, New York: Routledge, forthcoming.

García Bedolla, L. and C. J. Kim. “Beyond Whiteness: Asian Americans and Latinos in U.S. Educational Discourse,” in John S. W. Park, Abel Valenzuela, and Shannon Gleeson, eds. The Nation and Its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens, Migrants.New York: Routledge, forthcoming.

García Bedolla, L. 2010. “Do Cubans Swing? The Politics of Cuba and Cubans in the United States.” In A. Cabezas, I. Hernández-Torres, S. Johnson, and R. Lazo, eds., Una Ventana a Cuba y los Estudios Cubanos/A Window into Cuba and Cuban Studies. San Juan, PR: Ediciones Callejón.

Lavariega Monforti, J. and L. García Bedolla. 2009. “The Influence of History on the Policy Positions and Partisanship of Hispanics in the United States.” In V. Martínez-Ebersand M. Dorraj, eds., Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Religion: Identity Politics in America. New York: Oxford University Press.

Michelson, M. R., L. García Bedolla, and D. Green. 2008. “Mobilizing the Registered: Tactics for Improving Voter Turnout.” In M. E. Felchner, ed. Voting in America, Vol.1. Westport, CT: Praeger.

García Bedolla, L. 2007. “Race, Social Relations, and the Study of Social Capital.” In J. Jennings, ed. Politics, Neighborhoods, and the Misuse of Social Capital. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

García Bedolla, L. 2006. “Rethinking Citizenship: Noncitizen Voting and Immigrant Political Engagement in the United States.” In T. Lee, K. Ramakrishnan, and R. Ramírez, eds. Transforming Politics, Transforming America: The Political and Civic Incorporation of Immigrants in the United States. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.

García Bedolla, L. 2006. “Latinas in the United States Congress, 1989-2002.” In V. L. Ruiz and V. Sánchez Korrol, eds. Latinas in the United States: An Historical Encyclopedia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Scola, B. and L. García Bedolla. 2005. “Race, Gender, and the Recall Vote.” In S. Bowler and B. Cain, eds. Clicker Politics: Essays on the California Recall. New York: Prentice Hall.

García Bedolla, L., K. Tate and J. Wong. 2005. “Indelible Effects: The Impact of Women of Color in the U.S. Congress.” In S. Thomas and C. Wilcox, eds. Women in Elective Office, Past Present and Future, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press.

García Bedolla, L. 2005. “What Does Bowling Have to Do with It? Social Capital and Latina/o Participation.” In W. E. Nelson, Jr. and J. Lavariega Monforti, eds. Black and Latina/o Politics: Issues in Political Development in the United States.Miami: Barnhardt and Ash.

BOOK REVIEWS

García Bedolla, L. 2011. Citizenship, Borders, and Human Needs, Rogers M. Smith, ed. Perspectives on Politics 9 (3): 690-91.

García Bedolla, L. 2007. Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States, Nicholas De Genova, ed., Journal of American Ethnic History 27 (1): 85-87.

García Bedolla, L. 2007. Lobbying for Inclusion: Rights Politics and the Making of Immigration Policy, by Carolyn Wong, Journal of Politics 69 (2): 586-587.

García Bedolla, L. 2004. Straddling the Border: Immigration Policy and the INS, by Lisa Magaña, Perspectives on Politics 2 (3): 599-600.

RESEARCH REPORTS

García Bedolla, L. and R. Rodriguez. 2011. “Classifying California’s English Learners: Is the CELDT too Blunt an Instrument?” Research Brief. Berkeley: UC Berkeley Center for Latino Policy Research.  Report available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2m74v93d?query=lisa%20garcia%20bedolla

García Bedolla, L. 2010. “21st Century Competencies and Civic Participation.” Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, Center for Education. Report available from:

http://www7.nationalacademies.org/dbasse/Research_on_21st_Century_Compet...

Michelson, M. R., L. García Bedolla, and D. Green. 2009. “New Experiments in Minority Voter Mobilization: the Third and Final Report on the California Votes Initiative.” San Francisco: The James Irvine Foundation.  Report available from:

http://www.irvine.org/publications/publications-by-topic/californiademoc...

Michelson, M. R., L. García Bedolla, and D. Green. 2008. “New Experiments in Minority Voter Mobilization: the Second in a Series of Reports on the California Votes Initiative.” San Francisco: The James Irvine Foundation.  Report available from:

http://www.irvine.org/publications/publications-by-topic/californiademoc...

Michelson, M. R., L. García Bedolla, and D. Green. 2007. “New Experiments in Minority Voter Mobilization: A Report from the California Votes Initiative.” San Francisco: The James Irvine Foundation.  Report available from:

http://www.irvine.org/publications/publications-by-topic/californiademoc...

Area of Study:

  • Language, Literacy, Society & Culture
Affiliated Programs: 
Language and Literacy, Society and Culture