Emily Ortiz
Biography
My dissertation asks the question: why do so many Latino Republicans stay Republican, even as the party’s rhetoric toward Latino communities has grown increasingly hostile? I’m interested in how people hold onto an ethnic identity and a partisan identity that seem to be in conflict — and what quietly shifts when they do. My research uses large surveys and panel data, experiments, and qualitative evidence to track how Latino partisans’ sense of who counts as a real co-ethnic, and what they owe each other, changes over time.
Education
Florida State University, BA (2021)
Research Interests
Latino politics, REP, American politics, political psychology
Graduate Advisors
Chair: Efrén Pérez; Committee: Matt Barreto, Natalie Masuoka, Graeme Blair