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Denia Garcia
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Education/Degree:
1 Sociology (Princeton University)
About
Denia Garcia is assistant professor of public affairs at the La Follette School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received a PhD in sociology from Princeton University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at Indiana University.
Current Work
Garcia's research focuses on race/ethnicity, urban sociology, organizations, and social policy. Her work examines the role of space and organizations in shaping how inequalities are experienced and reproduced. She is currently writing an ethnography of a multiethnic neighborhood in Chicago, which speaks to ongoing debates about the consequences of ethnic/racial diversity for social relations and civic participation. In other research, she examines participatory budgeting and skin color and racial inequalities in the United States and Latin America.
Research Area Keyword(s)
civic participation, ethnography, Neighborhoods, public policy, race