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Luis R. Fraga Professor of Political Science Russell F. Stark University Professor Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement Office: Gerberding 340D (206) 685-4831 lrfraga@u.washington.edu Curriculum vitae

Luis Ricardo Fraga (Ph.D., Rice University, 1984) is Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement, Director of the Diversity Research Institute, Russell F. Stark University Professor, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. . His primary interests are urban politics, education politics, voting rights policy, and the politics of race and ethnicity. His most recent book is the coauthored Multiethnic Moments: The Politics of Urban Education Reform (Temple University Press 2006). He was a member of the APSA standing committee on Civic Engagement and Education that co-authored the recently published Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It (Brookings Institution Press 2005).

He is co-editor of Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Advanced Industrial Democracies (Greenwood 1992). He has published extensively in scholarly journals and edited volumes including the American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, The Journal of Politics, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Western Political Quarterly, Dubois Review, and the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy.