Department of
Political Science
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101 Gowen Hall, Box 353530 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-3530 Fax: 206-685-2146 |
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Ph: 206-616-3584 |
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Matt A. Barreto Associate Professor, Political Science Director, Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity & Race Director, Washington Survey Research Center Contact: mbarreto  washington.eduOffice: Gowen Hall 148 |
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Matt A. Barreto is an Associate Professor in political science at the University of Washington, Seattle
and currently the director of the Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (WISER). He is also
the director of the Washington Survey Research Center (WASRC) and the annual Washington Poll. He received his
Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Irvine in 2005. His research examines
the political participation of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States and his work has been
published in the American Political Science Review, Political Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly,
Public Opinion Quarterly, and other peer reviewed journals. He is the author of the book, Ethnic Cues: The
role of shared ethnicity in Latino political behavior published by the University of Michigan Press.
Matt specializes in Latino and immigrant voting behavior, and teaches courses on Racial and Ethnic Politics, Latino Politics, Voting and Elections, and American Politics at UW. Part of his research agenda also includes public opinion and election surveys, including exit polling methodology. Matt is also an affiliated faculty member in the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) at the Univesity of Washington. Beyond the UW, he has been an affiliated research scholar with the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute (www.trpi.org) since 1999 and with the Center for the Study of Los Angeles (www.lmu.edu/csla) since 2002. In 2008, Barreto was a co-principal investigator (with Gary Segura) of the American National Election Study Latino oversample, which included the first ever Spanish language translation of the ANES and the first ever oversample of Latino voters. | |