David Leal
Director, British and Transatlantic Studies Program | Affiliated Faculty
David L. Leal is a professor of government and a professor (by courtesy) of Mexican American studies and religious studies in the College of Liberal Arts. Since 2018, he also has been a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Leal is a scholar of Latino politics, and his work explores the political and policy implications of demographic change. He has published over fifty journal articles and edited or co-edited a dozen scholarly books and journal symposia. He has been an American Political Science Association congressional fellow, a Fulbright distinguished lecturer in Japan, and an associate member of Nuffield College at Oxford University. In 2021, he was recognized with the Distinguished Career Award from the Latina/o caucus of the Midwest Political Science Association. He completed his Ph.D. in government at Harvard University.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in government at Harvard University
