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Zoltan_Hajnal
Current Visiting Fellows and Guest Scholars
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Zoltan Hajnal
Visiting Fellow
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
In residence January 2008 - June 2008
phone: (858) 822-5015 fax: (858) 534-6447
e-mail: zhajnal@ucsd.edu
web page: http://polisci.ucsd.edu/faculty/hajnal.htm |
Expertise
Racial and Ethnic Politics, American Politics, Urban Politics, Public Policy, The Politics of Immigration
Regions of Interest
United States, Mexico, Canada.
Current Project
Immigrant Context and the Political Views of Native Born Americans
Publications
Hajnal has published in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, and numerous other journals and edited volumes. He recently completed a book with Cambridge University Press entitled, Changing White Attitudes Toward Black Political Leadership, that outlines the impact of black mayoral leadership on white racial attitudes and voting behavior. He has received numerous honors for his research and writing including the Best Paper in Urban Politics Award at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Dr. Hajnal is also currently working on two other book projects. The first examines the effects of uneven voter turnout on minority representation. The second recounts the different ways African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and white American choose their partisanship.
Academic Background
Hajnal earned his Ph.D. degree in Political Science from the University of Chicago and his B.S. in Geophysics from Yale University. After receiving his Ph.D. degree, Dr. Hajnal was a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Brandeis University. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at UCSD.
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