Jason Casellas
Assistant Professor — Ph.D., Princeton University
Associate Director
Contact
- E-mail: casellas@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-232-7202
- Office: BAT 4.138
- Office Hours: by appointment
- Campus Mail Code: A1800
Biography
Beginning in Fall 2013, Jason Casellas will be an associate professor of political science at the University of Houston.
Professor Casellas specializes in American politics, with specific research and teaching interests in Latino politics, legislative politics, and state and local politics. He is the author of Latino Representation in State Houses and Congress (New York: Cambridge University Press.)
He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including a Princeton President's Fellowship, an American Political Science Association Fellowship, a Ford Motor Company Fellowship, the Samuel DuBois Cook Postdoctoral Fellowship at Duke University, and a United States Studies Centre Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Sydney (Australia). 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 2011, he was awarded a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.
He is a member of the Texas Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
His work has appeared in the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly,Aztlán: Journal of Chicano Studies, and other peer-reviewed journals.
