Francisco I. Pedraza (Ph.D. University of Washington, 2010) is a political scientist at Arizona State University in the School of Politics and Global Studies.  He is Associate Director of the Center for Latinas/os and American Politics Research at ASU, and the coordinator of the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium, www.priec.org.

Francisco’s research centers on political attitude formation and political behavior, with a special emphasis on the attitudes and behaviors of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. His research draws on sociological, psychological, and policy processes theoretical frameworks to better understand individual-level policy preferences, electoral candidate preferences, political knowledge, and other political orientations like trust in government. His substantive research interests also include the relationship between immigration policy and health policy. From 2012-2014 Francisco was in residence at the University of Michigan as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program. Methodologically, he specializes in the design and deployment of surveys, including survey-embedded experiments, designed to investigate aspects of racial and ethnic minority politics. His specialization in surveys includes the development of survey items in English and Spanish language.

Francisco’s past or current research efforts have received support from several sources. He is grateful to the Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race at the University of Washington, Seattle; Politics of Race, Immigration and Ethnicity Consortium hosted by UC Riverside; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program; the Project for Equity, Representation and Governance at Texas A&M University; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico; the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan; the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality; and the Race and Ethnic Studies Institute at Texas A&M University.