Yalidy Matos, Ph.D.

yalidy.matos@rutgers.edu


Associate Professor

Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Year of PhD: 2015

Country: United States (New Jersey)

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About Me:

Yalidy Matos, PhD is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her scholarship sits at the intersection of race, ethnicity, and politics (REP), immigration, and identity politics. Broadly, her work explores how race and gender operate for various groups in the United States, by asking timely questions that investigate important topics such as immigration politics and policy, voting behavior, and political representation. Matos is the author of numerous research articles and her 2023 Oxford University Press book, Moral and Immoral Whiteness in Immigration.She graduated from The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH with a PhD in Political Science in 2015, and Connecticut College in New London, CT with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Gender and Women’s Studies, and a minor in English in 2009. Prior to Rutgers, she was a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University.

Research Interests

Race, Ethnicity and Politics

Latino Politics

Immigration Policy

Political Psychology

Survey Research

Countries of Interest

United States