Assistant Professor
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Office: 3278 Bunche Hall
Phone: (310) 825-7829
Fax: (310) 825-0778
E-mail: lfrasure@polisci.ucla.edu

Mailing Address:
UCLA Department of Political Science
4289 Bunche Hall
Box 951472
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472

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Field:

Race, Ethnicity and Politics and American Politics

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Notes:

Lorrie A. Frasure is an Assistant Professor of Political Science. Her research areas include race and ethnic politics, state and local governance, the political economy of metropolitan areas, and research methods. Her book project in progress is tentatively entitled, “We Won’t Turn Back: Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Settlement in Suburban America.” This project examines immigrant and ethnic minority suburbanization and the responsiveness of state and local institutions to policy concerns such as day labor, education and housing in suburban jurisdictions. This project uses Census data from Current Population Survey (CPS) and the Integrated Public Use Micro-data Series (IPUMS) 1980-2004. It also relies on original field research collected with collaborator Michael Jones-Correa, including over 100 semi-structured, in-depth interviews of state and local officials in Maryland and Northern Virginia, as well as five focus group discussions among Black, Latino, Korean, Chinese and Iranian suburban residents in these areas. Her work on immigration and migration to American suburbs appears in the National Political Science Review. She has engaged in considerable work on race/ethnicity, gender and political/civic participation. A part of this co-authored research with Linda F. Williams is forthcoming in the edited volume, Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice (Bonnie Thornton Dill and Ruth E. Zambrana, eds). Frasure is also a Senior Research Associate to the Gender and Multicultural Leadership Project, the most comprehensive multiracial national study of Black, Latino, Asian, and American Indian elected officials holding positions at multiple levels of office. She is the recipient of grants and funding from the American Political Science Association, the Ford Foundation, Cornell University and the Southern Regional Education Board. Frasure offers courses in Race and Ethnic Politics, Metropolitan Governance, American Suburbanization and Field Research. Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA in 2007, Frasure was a Post-doctoral Associate and Visiting Faculty member at Cornell University.

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