Gary M. Segura is an Associate Professor of American Politics. He received his PhD in American and Political Philosophy from the Universtiy of Illinois in 1992, and previously taught at the University of California, Davis, Claremont Graduate University, and the Universtiy of Iowa. His work focuses on issues of political representation, and currently focusing on the accessibility of governement and politics to America's growing Latino minority, as well as a book-lenght project on the links between casualties in international conflict and domestic politics. He is also serving as the co-Principal Investigator of the Latino National Survey, a national poll of 8600 Latino residents of the Untied States being conducted in the fall and winter of 2005-2006. At Washington he is the co-founder of the Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Sexuality, a major research institution that takes up the studies of marginalized populations.

Segura recently completed service as the General Program CHair of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. He presently serves on the Executive Council of the Western Political Science Association and is a former Executive Council member for both the Midwest and the American Political Science Association. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the American Journal of Poltical Science, the Journal of Politics, and the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Politics, and a former member of the board for PS: Political Science and Politics. He has been appointed to the Board of Overseers of the American National Election Study for 2006-2009.