John P. Tuman - Latinos in Nevada: A Political, Economic, and Social Profile

JOHN P. TUMAN is a professor of political science and associate dean of faculty in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, his MA from the University of Chicago, and his BA (High Honors) from the University of California, Berkeley. His research has engaged a number of topics on the political economy of Latin America and Latinos in the US. Tuman is the past president of the Pacific Coast Council of Latin American Studies, and he also served previously as the department chair of political science and as the director of the Institute for Latin American Studies for many years. He is the author, coauthor, and coeditor of several books and edited several volumes. In addition, he has published articles in a number of journals.

DAVID F. DAMORE, PhD, is a professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in American politics and research methods and serves as department chair. Damores research focuses on electoral politics and applied public policy. In addition to his position at UNLV, Damore is a nonresident senior fellow in the Brookings Institutions Governance Studies Program, a key vote advisor for Project Vote Smart, and a senior analyst at Latino Decisions. He is also the outgoing president of the Southwestern Political Science Association (201819). Damore regularly comments on Nevada governmental and political issues for local, national, and international media outlets. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Davis (2000), his MA from the University of Georgia (1995), and his BA from the University of California, San Diego (1992), all in political science.

TIFFIANY O. HOWARD, PhD, is an associate professor of political science and the director of the Center for Migration, Demography, and Population Studies (CMDP) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She earned herjoint doctorate in political science and public policy from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 2006 and joined the UNLV faculty in 2008. Her fields of specialization include international security, political violence, and terrorism, immigration and refugee policy, and race, ethnicity, and gender. She has been awarded nationally recognized visiting scholar and research fellow positions, including the Department of Defense-DARPA Research Fellowship (2009), the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship (20132014), the APSA Centennial Center Visiting Scholar Fellowship (2014), the Black Mountain Institute Faculty Fellowship (2015), and the Congressional Black Caucus FoundationCenter for Policy Analysis and ResearchSmall Business and Entrepreneurship Senior Research Fellowship (2019). Howard is the author of The Tragedy of Failure (Praeger Security International/ABC-CLIO, 2010) and Failed States and the Origins of Violence (Routledge, 2014), the coauthor of Sex, Power and Politics: Exploring Gender Roles, Identities and Influence throughout History (Palgrave Macmillan: 2016), and series coeditor of Migration, Demography and Environmental Change: Global Challenges (University of Nevada Press). Other notable peer reviewed publications appear in Civil Wars, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, the National Political Science Review, the Journal of Political Science Education, and Immigrants and Minorities.

NERSES KOPALYAN, PhD, is an assistant professor-in-residence of political science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His fields of specialization include international relations, political theory, and philosophy of science. Kopalyan has conducted extensive research on analytic philosophy, feminist theory, and paradigm building. Kopalyan is the author of World Political Systems After Polarity (Routledge, 2017), and the coauthor of Sex, Power, and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). His current research concentrates on political violence and terrorism and its impact on geopolitical and great power relations.