Angie Gutierrez is currently a Postdoc at the University of Texas at Austin in the Mexican American and Latina\o Studies Department and an Affiliated Scholar in the Government Department. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California Los Angeles. Her research focuses on Latino identity and political participation in the United States. Dr. Gutierrez’s dissertation focuses on the activation of Latino identity in the United States. She argues that political threat may be one way in which an identity can become salient and politicized. The first section of her dissertation examines identity in California during the 1990s as an example of how identity can become politicized due to the political climate. The second section of her dissertation examines three common identity measures in the political science literature; group consciousness, identity centrality, and linked fate and seeks to answer how these measures relate to the political attitudes and behavior of Latino voters, and examines if threat mediates or moderates the relationship between identity and political participation.
Dr. Angie Gutierrez
