Institution:
Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University

Interests:
Racial and ethnic politics in the United States; Latinx political behavior; immigration; policing; political psychology; migration; race and ethnicity; quantitative survey methods

Description:
Marcel Roman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Harvard University whose research focuses on racial and ethnic politics in the United States, especially Latinx political behavior, immigration, and policing. His book project, In the Shadow of Deportation: How Immigration Enforcement Shapes the Politics of Latinx Communities, uses more than a dozen representative Latinx surveys since 2007, along with experiments and large tracking polls, to show how increasingly restrictive immigration enforcement environments undermine conventional expectations of political assimilation with Anglo whites and instead foster distinct political commitments among Latinx communities. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.A. in political science from the University of Kentucky, and his published work examines how social ties to undocumented immigrants and contact with immigration enforcement shape Latinx political engagement and attitudes toward law enforcement.