Jody Agius Vallejo
- Associate professor, Department of Sociology
- Associate director, USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration
- Faculty affiliate, American Studies and Ethnicity
- USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Expertise Summary
Expert in immigrant integration and race and ethnicity, with a focus on Latinos and Latino Americans
Expertise
- Election 2016
- race and racial identification
- ethnicity
- immigration and assimilation
- Mexicans, Mexican Americans and second-generation Mexicans
- the Latino middle class and Latino entrepreneurs
- non-Latino identifiers with Latino ancestry
- the impact of working while in high school/college on the educational attainment of second-generation Mexican Americans, Chinese and Vietnamese
Additional Information
- Author, Barrios to Burbs: The Making of the Mexican-American Middle Class (Stanford University Press, 2012), and articles in American Behavioral Scientist, Social Science Research, City & Community, Ethnicities, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and Sociological Forum
- Former visiting research fellow, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego
- Holder of master’s degree in demographic and social analysis, master’s degree in sociology, and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Irvine