Dr. Angela X. Ocampo (PhD University of California, Los Angeles, BA Brown University) is an Assistant Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in the study of race and ethnicity in the U.S., with a specific focus on the Latina/o/x community. Her research agenda examines the political incorporation of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities both as every-day participants and as political leaders in American institutions.  Specifically, she investigates how political parties and institutional forces shape the path of minorities into elected office as well as the factors that mobilize ethnoracial minorities to engage politically.

Professor Ocampo’s book project Truly home?: The Politics of Belonging and Latino Political Incorporation, which received the American Political Science Association’s Best Dissertation Award in Race, Ethnicity and Politics, examines the notion of perceived belonging to U.S. society and its influence on political interest and political engagement among Latinxs. Her research has been published in Political Research Quarterly, Social Science Research, Politics, Groups and Identities, The Forum, and Latino Studies.