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Matt A. Barreto
Assistant Professor
Acting Director, Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (WISER)

Office: Gowen 139
(206) 616-3584
mbarreto@u.washington.edu

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Matt A. Barreto (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2005) is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington and a founding member of the Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (WISER), and an affiliated faculty of the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS). His research examines the political participation of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. Matt specializes in Latino and immigrant voting behavior. He is the co-director of the Washington Poll, a non-partisan academic public opinion poll of registered voters in Washington state. In addition, Matt has been an affiliated research scholar with the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute since 1999 and with the Center for the Study of Los Angeles since 2002. In 2008, he was the co-principal investigator of the American National Election Study Latino Over Sample, the first time the ANES contained an accurate sample of Latino registered voters.

Barreto’s teaching interests include American Government, U.S. Latino Politics, Race and Ethnic Politics in the United States, and Campaigns and Elections in the United States.