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 |
Matt A. Barreto
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Matt A. Barreto is an assistant professor in political science at the University of Washington, Seattle
and a member of the Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (WISER). 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. 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 2004, he was a co-author of the
TRPI/Washington Post National Survey of Latino voters and in 2005, he was co-principal investigator of the
CSLA Los Angeles Mayoral exit poll. In 2008, Barreto will be the co-principal investigator (with Gary Segura)
of the National Election Study, Latino oversample, which includes the first ever Spanish language translation
of the NES and the first ever oversample of Latino voters.
Contact: mbarreto
u.washington.edu