Dear RSF:

Please join us next Wednesday, May 22 at 11 in the library and on Zoom for Guest Speaker Angela X. Ocampo’s presentation, “Truly at Home?: Social Belonging and Latina/o/x Political Engagement in Times of Exclusion.”

Ocampo is an Assistant Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o/x Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. She holds a PhD and an MA in Political Science from UCLA and a BA from Brown University in International Relations and Ethnic Studies. Ocampo specializes in the study of race and ethnicity in U.S. politics, with a specific focus on the Latina/o/x community. She teaches courses on political behavior and representation, minority politics, immigration and citizenship and Latina/o/x politics. Her research agenda examines the sociopolitical incorporation of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities both as every-day participants and as political leaders in American institutions. More specifically, she examines the social and psychological factors that mobilize Latinas/os/xs to engage politically, as well as those that propel them or deter them from running for elected office.

She received the 2023 Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Mentor Award for Exemplary Mentoring of Latino/a Graduate Students in Political Science from the American Political Science Association. Ocampo is currently working on turning her 2019 dissertation, “Truly home?: The Politics of Belonging and Latino Political Incorporation,” winner of the APSA Best Dissertation Award in Race, Ethnicity and Politics into a book. The work examines the notion of perceived belonging to U.S. society and its influence on political interest and political engagement among Latinas/os/xs.