Stella M. Rouse
Assistant Professor
Department of Government and Politics
University of Maryland
Welcome to my website
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and Politics and a Research Fellow at the Center for American Politics and Citizenship at the University of Maryland. For the 2010-2011 academic year I was a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences (REGSS) at Duke University as a Ford Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow.
I earned my Ph.D. in political science from Louisiana State University in 2008. My research and teaching interests focus on Latino politics, minority politics, legislative and political behavior, institutions, state politics, immigration, and network analysis. My dissertation on Latino representation was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
My recently completed book, Latinos in the Legislative Process: Interests and Influence, published by Cambridge University Press, is scheduled to be released in March 2013. The book explores the varying definitions of “Latino interests,” establishes the meaning of a Latino political agenda, and examines ethnic differences across various stages of the legislative process. Here is the table of contents for the book (Latinos in the Legislative Process_Table of Contents.pdf).
I am a native of Colombia. When I was two years old, my parents immigrated to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida where I grew up. I fluently speak, read, and write Spanish.
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