Jaime Dominguez
Lecturer
PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago
Dr. Dominguez is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science. He received his BA from the University of California at San Diego and his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2007. His research interests include race and ethnicity, coalition politics, urban and minority politics. He is one of the principal architect's of the Chicago Democracy Project (CDP), a thirty-year (1975-2005) online political database that provides citizens, community groups, and religious organizations with information on campaign finance, electoral outcomes, government contracts, minority appointments and levels of public employment for the City of Chicago. Professor Dominguez is currently at work to expand the CDP to other cities as a way to expand political incorporation comparative frameworks. Of particular interest is how Latino heterogeneity and population growth is redefining traditional political and race relations between blacks, whites and Asians. He is author of "Illinois Latinos and the 2004 Elections: The Waiting Game Continues," in de la Garza, Leal and DeSipio's Beyond the Barrio: Latinos and the 2004 Elections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2008).