Research Expertise and Interest
politics, immigration, race, gender, inequality, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships
Research Description
Professor García Bedolla’s research focuses on how marginalization and inequality structure the political and educational opportunities available to members of ethnoracial groups, with a particular emphasis on the intersections of race, class, and gender. Her current projects include an analysis of how technology can facilitate voter mobilization among voters of color in California and a historical exploration of the race, gender, and class inequality at the heart of the founding of California's public school system.
In the News
Economy, Sexism and Conspiracies Fueled Trump’s Reelection
Shifting From Biden to Harris, Democrats Reset the Race. But Scholars See Risks.
Facing Legal Peril, Trump Stokes Racial, Gender Resentment in His Base
Berkeley scholars say that by attacking the prosecutors and judges in his cases, the former president is trying to discredit the charges, rall
Berkeley Leaders, Scholars React to Supreme Court’s Decision on Affirmative Action
Berkeley moves to the forefront in California political polling
“Data for Social Good”: A New Strategy to Strengthen Citizenship
Three new Signatures Innovation Fellows announced
Three faculty members have been selected as 2016-17 Signatures Innovation Fellows, receiving as much as $100,000 per year each for up to two years to pursue commercially promising data science and software projects.
New GOTV efforts could help Latino voters achieve political potential, says researcher
Lisa García Bedolla, a University of California, Berkeley, expert on voter mobilization, says Latinos are far from casting votes in numbers that truly reflect their growing population and potential political power.
Researchers give low marks to California’s English proficiency test for kindergartners
Most of the thousands of four- and five-year-olds who take California’s official test for English language proficiency before they start kindergarten are bound to fail that exam, according to a new University of California, Berkeley, study.