Dr. Luis Fraga
Colloquia Series
Changing Demographics and the 2024 Election: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity
Oct 25
As Penn College observes National Hispanic Heritage Month, join Dr. Fraga and Dr. Craig A. Miller, professor of history/political science and department head for social sciences and humanities, for an informal chat about America’s evolving cultural makeup and the role that diversity will play in the 2024 presidential election.
Bring your curiosity – and your questions – for what is sure to be an enlightening discussion.
This event is free and open to the public.
Speaker Biography
Dr. Luis Ricardo Fraga is the Rev. Donald P. McNeill, C.S.C, Professor of Transformative Latino Leadership, Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science, Director of the Institute for Latino Studies, and Fellow at the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame. He is a native of Corpus Christi, Texas.
His primary interests are in American politics where he specializes in Latino politics, voting rights, immigration, and education. He has published six books and over forty articles in scholarly journals and edited volumes. His most recent co-edited book is Latinos and the 2016 Election: Latino Resistance and the Election of Donald Trump (Michigan State University Press 2020). He has two other recent books: the co-authored Latinos in the New Millennium: An Almanac of Opinion, Behavior, and Policy Preferences (Cambridge University Press 2012) and Latino Lives in America: Making It Home (Temple University Press 2010).
In 2011 President Barack Obama appointed him to the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics where he also served as co-chair of the Postsecondary Education Subcommittee. In 2011, Hispanic Business named him one of the top “100 Influentials” in the U.S.
Since returning to Notre Dame in 2014, he has raised over $8M for the Institute for Latino Studies (ILS). He established the Latino Studies Scholars Program (LSSP), the only merit-based, academic scholarship program in the country for students who have worked to empower and serve Latino communities during their high school years. He initiated bringing the Warrior-Scholar Project to Notre Dame, a national program to provide an academic boot camp to military veterans to help build their confidence to pursue postsecondary education.
