Dr Jason Casellas
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jason Casellas is Assistant Professor of Government and Associate Director of the Public Policy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.A. in political science from Loyola University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University.
He specializes in American politics, with specific research and teaching interests in Latino politics, legislative politics, state and local politics, and public policy. His book manuscript, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press, examines Latino Representation in U.S. Legislatures and Congress.
He is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including a Princeton President's Fellowship, an American Political Science Association Fellowship, and a Ford Motor Company Fellowship. During 2007-2008, he was the Samuel DuBois Cook Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University. His dissertation won third place in a nationwide, inter-disciplinary competition for the best dissertation given by The American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) and Educational Testing Service (ETS).
In addition to several edited volume book chapters, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Qualitative Methods, and the Journal of California Politics and Policy.
During his year at the United States Studies Centre, he is working on a book manuscript analyzing the determinants of major federal education legislation affecting Latinos beginning with the Bilingual Education Act of 1968 and ending with the No Child Left Behind Act and the subsequent debates regarding its provisions.
