Faculty

Matt A. Barreto

Office: Gowen 139
(206) 616-3584

(Ph.D., University of California, Irvine) Matt A. Barreto is an assistant professor in political science at the University of Washington, Seattle 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, and teaches courses on Racial and Ethnic Politics, Latino Politics, Voting and Elections, and American Politics at UW. Part of his research agenda also includes public opinion and election surveys, including exit polling methodology. 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. In 2005, he was co-principal investigator of the CSLA Los Angeles Mayoral exit poll, and in 2004, he was a co-author of the TRPI/Washington Post National Survey of Latino voters.

Web page: http://faculty.washington.edu/mbarreto/

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