Victoria DeFrancesco Soto

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Victoria Maria DeFrancesco Soto is an American political scientist and academic administrator. She is dean of the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas. [1] She was previously the assistant dean for civic engagement and a senior lecturer at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. [1]

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She researches immigration, women and politics, political psychology, and campaigns and elections. [1]

Early life

DeFrancesco Soto was born to Victoria and Joseph DeFrancesco in Southern Arizona. [1] [2] Her mother is from Sonora. [1] She is of Italian, Jewish, and Mexican descent. [3]

Education

She completed a bachelor's degree in political science and Latin American studies at the University of Arizona. [1] She earned a master's and Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Duke University. [1] Her 2007 dissertation was titled, Do Latinos Party All the Time? The Role of Shared Ethnic Group Identity on Political. [2] John Aldrich was her doctoral advisor. [2]

Career

In 2007, she moved to Chicago to work as an assistant professor at Northwestern University. [4]

DeFrancesco Soto is the first Latina dean of the Clinton School of Public Service. [5]

Passionate about making social science research more accessible and understandable for the greater public, DeFrancesco Soto has served as a contributor and analyst for popular news outlets such as CNN, Telemundo, NBCNews, Fox, HBO, and Univision. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Adame, Jaime (2021-09-17). "From 'student council nerd' to dean: Victoria DeFrancesco Soto to lead Clinton School". Arkansas Online . Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  2. 1 2 3 DeFrancesco Soto, Victoria Maria (2007). Do Latinos Party All the Time? The Role of Shared Ethnic Group Identity on Political (Ph.D. thesis). Graduate School of Duke University. OCLC   277343161.
  3. ↑ "Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto - Clinton School of Public Service". www.clintonschool.uasys.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  4. ↑ "HIGH PROFILE: Dr. Victoria DeFrancesco Soto is growing passion for the public sector in others as dean of the Clinton School of Public Service | Arkansas Democrat Gazette". www.arkansasonline.com. 2023-01-22. Retrieved 2025-03-05.
  5. ↑ "How I became one of the only Latina deans in the world of higher ed". MSNBC. May 3, 2022. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  6. ↑ "Victoria DeFrancesco Soto: Political Analyst, Social Scientist, and Academic Leader". Leading Authorities, Inc. Retrieved March 26, 2025.
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