Francisco Lara- Garcia '12

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hofstra University
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"The Center for Latin American Studies jumpstarted my career as an academic. The Center gave me the foundations in scholarship and academics that I have needed to pursue rigorous research in Latin America and Mexicans living in the United States. I wouldn't be where I am without them."

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Francisco Lara-García is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and faculty affiliate of the Program on Latin American Studies and the Caribbean at Hofstra University. He is originally from Baja California, Mexico but has spent almost a decade in the New York area completing my PhD at Columbia University and postdoctoral training at Princeton University. His primary areas of research are immigration, race/ethnicity among Latinos, and urban sociology
 

He is the lead investigator for the Mexicans in Albuquerque and Tucson Integration Study (MATIS). This project seeks to better integrate migration studies with urban sociology by investigating the role of contextual factors in producing differential integration paths for immigrants in cities in the U.S. He draws on a variety of qualitative and quantitative strategies for this analysis, including survey, interview and ethnographic methods

"The Center for Latin American Studies jumpstarted my career as an academic. The Center gave me the foundations in scholarship and academics that I have needed to pursue rigorous research in Latin America and Mexicans living in the United States.I wouldn't be where I am without them."

Degree(s)

  • MUP, Harvard University 2016
  • PhD Sociology, Columbia University 2022