Benjamin Marquez

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His teaching and research interests are in race, ethnicity, political sociology and American politics. He has published extensively on Latinos and American politics; his research has focused on Mexican American social movement organizations, identity politics and political power. He is the former Director of the University of Wisconsin Chicano/Latino Studies Program. He has conducted research on political organizing in El Paso, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Albuquerque, Los Angeles, Phoenix and several other communities. He is a faculty affiliate and a former director of the Chicano/Latina Studies Program. He is also a faculty affiliate of the LaFollette School of Public Affairs.

He is the author of The Politics of Patronage: Lawyers, Philanthropy and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 1967-2000. (University of Texas Press, 2021). Winner of the 2022 Latino Politics Best Book Award. Latino Caucus of the American Political Science Association, 2022. Democratizing Texas Politics: Race, Identity, and Mexican American Empowerment, 1945-2002. (University of Texas Press 2014) National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies award winner; Mexican American Organizations and Identity Politics: Choosing Issues Taking Sides. (University of Texas Press, 2003); Winner of the 2004 Best Book Award by the Race, Ethnicity and Politics (REP) Section of the American Political Science Association; LULAC: The Evolution of a Mexican American Political Organization. (University of Texas Press, 1993), and Power and Politics in A Chicano Barrio: A Study of Mobilization Efforts and Community Power in South El Paso. (The University Press of America, 1985). His current research project is on contemporary Latino interest groups and advocacy organizations. His current book project is on Latino/a Nonprofit Organizations in the United States.

2020

Outstanding Book Award National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies Tejas Foco Award for Non-Fiction

2018-2019

2018

2013-2014

2010-2011