Valerie Martinez-Ebers



Valerie Martinez-Ebers is an associate professor and the president of the Western Political Science Association. The former co-president of the Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, Martinez teaches courses in race, ethnicity and politics, Latino politics, public policy, research methods, and civil liberties and political tolerance. Many of her publications are on the consequences of education policy for minority students but she also has publications on Latino politics, methods of survey research and aging policy. Her forthcoming book with UT Press is entitled,

Politicas: Latina Trailblazers in the Texas Political Arena. Her most recent publication, “Su Casa Es Nuestra Casa: Latino Politics Research and the Development of American Political Science,” is forthcoming in APSR, February 2006. She is a co-principal investigator of the Latino National Survey (LNS) funded by Ford, Carnegie, Russell Sage, Hewlett, Joyce and National Science Foundations. Completed in August 2006, the LNS is an 8,600 respondent state-stratified survey of Latinos in the U.S.

Martinez received her Ph.D. from Ohio State University.



Background Information

Syllabi

Summer 2008

POSC 20123

Valerie Martinez-Ebers
Texas Christian University
Department of Political Science
P.O. Box 297021
Fort Worth, Texas 76129
Phone: (817) 257-6403
Fax: (817) 257-7397
v.martinez@tcu.edu