Dr. José D. Villalobos
Dr. José D. Villalobos is Professor of Political Science and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at UTEP. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio and his doctoral degree from Texas A&M University. He is a recipient of the University of Texas System Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award, a University of Texas System Curricular Innovation Grant, UTEP's Most Distinguished Faculty Member Award, and UTEP's Outstanding Service to the College Award in Liberal Arts. Dr. Villalobos has also garnered numerous recognitions for his research, including the George C. Edwards III Best Dissertation Award and four book awards: the American Political Science Association's Best Book Award, the David O. Sears Award, the Robert E. Lane Award, and the APSA Best Book in Experimental Research. He has served as an Inaugural Member of UTEP's Academy of Distinguished Teachers, the Provost’s Faculty Fellow-in-Residence for UTEP's Center for Community Engagement, and Chair and Fellow of the Dean's Community Engagement & Leadership (CEL) Program in Liberal Arts.
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, Political Research Quarterly, American Behavioral Scientist, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Public Administration, Administration & Society, Review of Policy Research, 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).
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, Political Research Quarterly, American Behavioral Scientist, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Public Administration, Administration & Society, Review of Policy Research, 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