Mark Hugo Lopez | |
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Born | April 16, 1967 |
Academic career | |
Institution | University of Maryland School of Public Policy Pew Research Center |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley Princeton University |
Academic advisors | David Card |
Mark Hugo Lopez (born April 16, 1967) [1] is Director of Race and Ethnicity Research at the Pew Research Center. [2] Lopez has authored and co-authored numerous reports on the attitudes and opinions of Hispanics, [3] education, [4] migration and immigration, [5] identity, [6] and civic engagement and voter participation. [7] [8] Lopez also coordinates the center's National Survey of Latinos. [9]
Prior to joining the Pew, he was the research director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) as well as a research assistant professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. Lopez is also a founding member and former president of the American Society of Hispanic Economists [10] as well as a former member of the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession. [11]
Lopez is from Los Angeles. [12] He was born in a Mexican American family based in California for more than a century. [13] He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. degree in economics in 1996 from Princeton University, where his thesis advisors included David Card. [12]