Yoshira Macias Mejia

Biography

Yoshira D. Macías Mejía is an assistant professor in the department of political science and law. Dr. Macías Mejía received her PhD from the University of New Mexico and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy, doctoral fellow. Her research interests include political participation, linked fate, immigrant linked fate, Latino voters, Latino health, race and ethnicity, racial identity, and farmworker settling out processes. She is the editor of the volume Salud Latina: Structural Inequality and the Social Determinants of Latino Health in the United States, which is forthcoming through the Michigan State University Press. Her research is published in Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly, Latino Studies, and the U.S. Latina & Latino Oral History Journal. Other featured work includes research and policy reports with the UNM Native American Budget & Policy Institute, PS Now with the American Political Science Association and the Julian Samora Research Institute at Michigan State University.

 

 

Research

American Politics, Political behavior, Race and Ethnic Politics, Latina/o/x/e Politics, Intersection of Immigration and Health Policy