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NEWS & EVENTS
National
Expert on Latino Politics to Speak to HPU Classes and Give a Public
Talk
(March 2006). Columbia
University's Rodolfo O. de la Garza de la Garza will be on camp us
for a three days, starting March 29. His visit is co-sponsored by the
university's honors program, the Department of History and Political
Science, and the university's 2006 Cultural Events Series. Dr. de la
Garza's schedule includes a dinner with honors students and political
science majors and teaching two political science seminars. Thursday,
March 29, he will deliver a talk entitled "Creating a Latino
Political Community"; this event starts at 11:00 am in the
Pauline Theatre and is open to the general public.
Dr. de la Garza is
the Eaton Professor of Administrative Law and Municipal Science at
Columbia University, director of Columbia's Master of Public
Administration Program, and vice president for research for the Tomás
Rivera Policy Institute, the nation's leading Latino policy think
tank. Twice named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the
United States by Hispanic magazine, Dr. de la Garza was a
founding member of the National Association of Chicano Studies and the
Inter-University Program for Latino Research, has served as a
Vice-President of the American Political Science Association, and is
currently a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. He received
the Life-time Achievement Award of the Committee on the Status of
Latinos in the Profession of the American Political Science
Association in 1993.
He
is the author of numerous books on Latino and immigrant political
behavior, including most recently: Muted Voices: Latinos and the
2000 Elections (Rowman & Littlefield 2004), Sending Money
Home: Hispanic Remittances and Community Development (Rowman &
Littlefield 2002), Latinos and US Foreign Policy (Rowman &
Littlefield 2000), Awash in the Mainstream: Latinos and the 1996
Election (Westview 1998), Making Americans, Remaking America:
Immigration and Immigrant Policy (Westview 1998), Bridging the
Border: Transforming Mexico-U.S. Relations (Rowman &
Littlefield 1997), and Ethnic Ironies: Latino Politics in the 1992
Elections (Westview 1996).
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