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The Urban Studies Programs2005-2006 Speakers SeriesGabriela Sandoval Gabriela Sandoval is an assistant professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Professor Sandoval received her B.A. in Ethnic Studies and Psychology from the University of California, San Diego in 1997. After completing her B.A. she worked for Augsburg College's Center for Global Education in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. During that time in Central America she developed an interest in the ways that cities and their historical development influence the life chances of different groups residing in cities. She returned to the U.S. and received her Masters in Regional Planning with a specialization in International Development from Cornell University in 2001. Sandoval remained at Cornell for her doctoral training in Sociology and completed the Ph.D. in Sociology with a minor in Latino/a Studies. Sandoval's work has focused on the presence of race voting in city council elections and the logic of addressing Latino/a voting rights through cases that deploy Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to compel cities to move from at-large elections to district election systems. More recently, Sandoval has begun to examine the implications of racial residential segregation for the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Professor Sandoval is presently in residence at the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois, Chicago where she is a Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellow. During her tenure in Chicago, she is expanding her work on race voting-which has up to now focused on divisions between Mexican American and white populations-to include Puerto Rican and African American voting behavior. At the University of California, Santa Cruz, Professor Sandoval teaches Urban Sociology, Latino/a Identities, Latino/as in the Global American City and Research Methods. |
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