Eric Gonzalez Juenke

Associate Professor

Dr. Eric Gonzalez Juenke is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Chicano/Latino Studies Program at Michigan State University. He specializes in racial and ethnic politics, U.S. federal, state, and local elections, legislative and bureaucratic minority representation, immigration politics, and democratic theory. His recent book The Presidency and Immigration Policy: Rhetoric and Reality (with Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha and Andrea Silva) examines how U.S. Presidents talk about immigration. His current projects focus on the election of racial and ethnic minority candidates to state legislative office in the United States.