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Biography
Sophia Jordán Wallace is a Professor of Political Science and the Stuart A. and Lee D. Scheingold Endowed Faculty Fellow in Social Justice at the University of Washington. She received her B.A. from UC San Diego and her Ph.D. from Cornell University. She specializes in Latino Politics, politics of race and ethnicity, immigration politics and policy, public opinion, and legislative politics. Her research has been funded by the Ford Foundation, Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC), Dirksen Congressional Center, and the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.
Her co-authored book, Walls, Cages, and Family Separation: Race and Immigration Policy in the Trump Era, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. Her work has also been published in various journals including the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, International Migration Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Political Research Quarterly, Politics, Groups, & Identities, American Politics Research, Social Science Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, and Urban Affairs Review, among others.
She is a co-founder and co-organizer of SPIRE, Symposium on the Politics of Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity, which is an annual conference of race, ethnicity, and politics scholars. She was the Director of the Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race (WISIR) from 2019-2022 and was one of the editors of Political Research Quarterly from 2018-2022.
She is currently working two book projects. One entitled, United We Stand: Latino Representation in Congress, examines the ways legislators serve the interests of Latinos across a variety of legislative behaviors and the substantive impact of Latino representatives. The other, Immigration Reform: Failure and Success in Congress, examines the framing of immigration politics and policy in Congress and the conditions under which immigration legislation moves forward or stalls.
Research
Selected Research
- Simien, Evelyn M. and Sophia Jordán Wallace. 2023. “The Impacts of Exclusion and Disproportionate Service on Women and Faculty of Color in Political Science” PS: Political Science & Politics. 56(2):291-294.
- Simien, Evelyn M. and Sophia Jordán Wallace. 2022. “Disproportionate Service: Considering the Impacts of George Floyd’s Death and the Coronavirus Pandemic for Women Academics and Faculty of Color”. PS: Political Science & Politics, 55(4):799-803.
- Wallace, Sophia Jordán and Zepeda-Millán, Chris. "Do Latinos Still Support Immigrant Rights Activism: Examining Latino Attitudes a Decade After the 2006 Protests." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol 46, no. 4, 2020, pp. 770-790.
- Wallace, Geoffrey P.R. and Wallace, Sophia Jordán. "Who Gets to Have a DREAM? Examining Public Support for Immigration." International Migration Review, vol. 54. no. 2, 2020, pp. 527-558.
- Jordán Wallace, Sophia, and Chris Zepeda-Millán. Walls, Cages and Family Separation: Race and Immigration in the Trump Era. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Casellas, Jason. P, Daniel Q. Gillion, and Sophia Jordán Wallace. "Race, Partisanship, and Attitudes Towards Public Policy Commonality and Legislative Districts." Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, 2019, 4(1):32-59.
- Wallace, Sophia Jordán, Jason. P Casellas, and Daniel Q. Gillion. "Race, Partisanship, and Attitudes Towards Public Policy Commonality and Legislative Districts." Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, vol. 4, no. 1, 2019, pp. 32-59.
- Casellas, Jason P. and Wallace, Sophia Jordán. "Sanctuary Cities: Public Attitudes about Local Federal Collaboration on Immigration Enforcement." Urban Affairs Review, vol. 56, no. 1, 2019, pp. 32-64.
- Chris Zepeda-Millán and Sophia J. Wallace. “Mobilizing for Immigrant Rights.” In Charting the Resistance: The Emergence of the Movement Against Donald Trump. Edited by David Meyer and Sidney Tarrow. Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 90-108.
- Jones-Correa, Michael, Sophia J. Wallace and Chris Zepeda-Millán. "The Impact of Large-Scale Collective Action on Latino Perceptions of Commonality and Competition with African-Americans." Social Science Quarterly, 2016, 97(2): 458- 475.
- Casellas, Jason P. and Sophia J. Wallace. "The Role of Race, Ethnicity, and Partisanship on Attitudes about Descriptive Representation." American Politics Research, 2015, 43(1): 144-169.
- Ayoub, Phillip, Sophia J. Wallace, and Chris Zepeda-Millán. “Triangulation in Multi-Method Social Movement Research” Methodological Practices in Social Movements Research, edited by Donatella della Porta, Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 67-96.
- Wallace, Sophia J. "The Effect of Discrimination and Identity on Latino Attitudes towards Descriptive Representation." Social Science Quarterly, 2014, 95(2): 311-327.
- Wallace. Sophia J. "Papers Please: An Analysis of State Level Anti-Immigrant Legislation in the Wake of Arizona’s SB 1070." Political Science Quarterly, 2014, 129(2): 261-291.
- Wallace, Sophia J., Chris Zepeda- Millán and Michael Jones-Correa. "Spatial and Temporal Proximity: Examining the Effects of Protests on Political Attitudes." American Journal of Political Science, 2014, 58(2): 449-465.
- Wallace, Sophia J. "Representing Latinos: Examining Descriptive and Substantive Representation in Congress." Political Research Quarterly, 2014, 67(4): 917-929.
- Zepeda- Millán, Chris and Sophia J. Wallace. "Racialization in the Times of Contention: How Social Movements Influence Latino Racial Identity." Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2013, 1(4): 510-527.
- Wallace, Sophia J. "It’s Complicated: Latinos, President Obama and the 2012 Election." Social Science Quarterly, 2012, 93(5): 1360-1383.