Dr. José D. Villalobos
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His research examines institutional leadership, mass public opinion and behavior dynamics, and policymaking in the areas of the American presidency, race/ethnicity, and immigration. His journal publications include articles in: The Journal of Politics, Political Psychology, American Behavioral Scientist, Political Research Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Public Administration, Administration & Society, and other scholarly venues. He is also co-author of Seeing Us in Them: Social Divisions and the Politics of Group Empathy (Cambridge University Press 2021) and Czars in the White House: The Rise of Policy Czars as Presidential Management Tools (University of Michigan Press 2015). In the area of the scholarship of engagement, he has a chapter that applies Villalobos et al.'s Empathic Global Citizenship (EGC) framework for curricular innovation in community-engaged learning (Springer 2022).
Contact Info:
Professor
Department of Political Science and Public Administration
Benedict Hall 306
Phone: (915) 747-7978
Email: jdvillalobos2@utep.edu