Department of Politics at Princeton University

Ali Adam Valenzuela writes and teaches about American electoral politics, with a focus on Latino public opinion, immigrant socialization, voter turnout using field experiments, religion and politics, and the politics of racial and ethnic identity in the U.S. His current research uses surveys and geographic data to investigate contextual and institutional sources of politicized group identities. This work is complemented by field and survey experiments that test the consequences of identity-based political appeals on voter turnout and support for public policies. A third area of his research asks how regular churchgoing and church characteristics influence policy views, interest in politics, group attachments and party identification choices among religious individuals in the U.S. His research has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research and Presidential Studies Quarterly.

Professor Valenzuela is teaching two courses in Fall 2012: POL 423 (LAO 423 / LAS 423), Latino Politics – new undergraduate seminar; and POL 5xx, Identity Politics – new graduate seminar.

Ph.D. (2011), Stanford University; B.A. (2005), University of California, Los Angeles