A Conversation with UCLA’s Natalie Masuoka on Potential Impacts of Redistricting on California’s Asian Americans

Please join us on Wednesday, September 3, 2025, at 11:00 am Pacific for the next episode of Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech Election Integrity Project and moderated by R. Michael Alvarez, PhD, Flintridge Foundation Professor of Political and Computational Social Science at Caltech and Co-Director, Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP).

In this episode, Professor Alvarez hosts Professor Natalie Masuoka, PhD, Professor of Political Science and Asian-American Studies at UCLA. Together, Professors Alvarez and Masuoka provide their evaluations of the new California redistricting maps and discuss how they might affect Asian American communities and their representation in Congress.

Professor Masuoka’s research interests include racial and ethnic politics, immigration, political behavior, and public opinion. In collaboration with the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute, Professor Masuoka has an extensive background including spearheading research on the impact of voters of color on the 2020 election. Her first book, The Politics of Belonging: Race, Public Opinion and Immigration, co-authored with Jane Junn, examines how and why whites, blacks, Asian-Americans, and Latinos view immigration and immigrants in systematically different ways. This book was the winner of the 2014 Ralph Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association. Her second book, Multiracial Identity and Racial Politics in the United States, explores the rise of Americans who self-identify as mixed race or multiracial and the impact on politics. This book was recognized as the best book in political behavior by the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.

Before joining UCLA, Professor Masuoka taught at Tufts University and Duke University. Professor Masuoka received her PhD and MA from University of California, Irvine and a BA from CSU Long Beach.

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